inisle

English

Etymology

From in- +‎ isle.

Verb

inisle (third-person singular simple present inisles, present participle inisling, simple past and past participle inisled)

1. Obsolete form of enisle.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion:

     So Scardale tow'rds the same, that lovely Iddle sends, / That helps the fertile seat of Axholme to in-isle

   • 1793, A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain‎^[1], volume 3:

     It begins with Rother, whose running through the woods, in inisling Oxney, and such like, poetically here described is plain enough to any apprehending conceit […]

   • 1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “The Pang More Sharp Than All”, in The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published 1854:

     The wondrous 'World of Glass', wherein inisled / All long'd for things their beings did repeat

Anagrams

• lie-ins, siline