enchase
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She may turn out to be a pearl of a wife, this young lady whom you are requested to enchase in gold.
From Major Frank by James Akeroyd
Square-faced, No lion more; two vivid eyes, enchased In hollows filled with many a shade and streak Settling from the bold nose and bearded cheek.
From The Poetry Of Robert Browning by Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus) Brooke
"Seeing the jewel enchased with the arms of the Venetian republic, may it please your highness," said the soldier, "I judged it better to remit it to your royal keeping."
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 by Various
Give me my earthen cups again, The crystal I contemn, Which, though enchased with pearls, contain A deadly draught in them.
From A selection from the lyrical poems of Robert Herrick by Francis Turner Palgrave
In shape it resembles the nave of a church, with the sides richly enchased with figures of saints and bishops.
From Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 2 by Dawson Turner
It consists of a gold coin of Ferdinand II., dated 1638, surrounded by a row of sixteen brilliants enchased in silver, enriched with blue enamel, and bearing the motto, "Usque ad aris fidelis."
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 545, May 5, 1832 by Various
After dismounting it—an operation that the quite primitive enchasing of the face plate renders very easy—we took a copy of it, which we measured with care.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 by Various
Relating to the art of carving, enchasing, or embossing in low relief.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
