ENCLAVE, a term signifying a country or, more commonly, an outlying portion of a country entirely surrounded by the territories of a foreign or other power. It is, however, generally used in a looser sense to describe a colony or other territory of a State, which, while possessing a seaboard, is entirely surrounded landward by the possession of another power ; or, if inland territory, nearly though not entirely so enclosed, e.g., the Lado Enclave in equatorial Africa.