·vt An inclosed place.
II. Cloister ·vt A covered passage or ambulatory on one side of a court;.
III. Cloister ·vt A monastic establishment; a place for retirement from the world for religious duties.
IV. Cloister ·vt To confine in, or as in, a cloister; to seclude from the world; to Immure.
V. Cloister ·vt the series of such passages on the different sides of any court, ·esp. that of a monastery or a college.