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Set, as a gem
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enchase
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To set (a gemstone etc.) into. 2 (label en figuratively) To be a setting for. 3 To decorate with jewels, or with inlaid ornament. 4 To cut or carve, as with a weapon.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Enchase \En*chase"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enchased ; p. pr. & vb. n. Enchasing .] [F. ench[^a]sser; pref. en- (L. in) + ch[^a]sse box containing relics, frame, case, the same word as caisse case. See 1st Case , and cf. Chase , Encase , Incase .] To incase ...
Usage examples of enchase.
He had already formed a picture of the workmanship that he would permanently enchase upon their skin.
Nicephorus was exposed on a spear, and his skull, enchased with gold, was often replenished in the feasts of victory.
Janizaries, who wore his bones enchased in a bracelet, declared by this superstitious amulet their involuntary reverence for his valor.
Give me my earthen cups again, The crystal I contemn, Which, though enchased with pearls, contain A deadly draught in them.
This ring of mine would lose half its beauty were not the signet encircled and enchased with these lesser brilliants, which grace it and set it off.
Across from the piano stood the sideboard, black with cut-glass sliding panels, enchased in black eggs-and-anchors.
II For, wonning in these ancient lands, Enchased and lettered as a tomb, And scored with prints of perished hands, And chronicled with dates of doom, Though my own Being bear no bloom I trace the lives such scenes enshrine, Give past exemplars present room, And their experience count as mine.
From rocks around hung the loose ivy dangling, And in the clefts sumach of liveliest green, Bright ising-stars the little beach was spangling, The gold-cup sorrel from his gauzy screen Shone like a fairy crown, enchased and beaded, Left on some morn, when light flashed in their eyes unheeded.
Desperately he thrust against the enchased marble wall, loosed one hand from the rope, stretched for the rail.