enchase

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

I myself, though weary and excited, leant against the marble enchased wall which incloses the steps that lead up to the tabernacle in order to look my father in the face as I listened.

From Gabriel A Story of the Jews in Prague by Spiegfried Kohn

Latin, which had enchased and preserved such precious remains of ancient wisdom, was now shackling the living mind in its efforts.

From Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. by R. W. (Richard William) Church

Midway the hall was a fair table placed, With cloth of gold, and golden cups enchased With rubies, and the plates and knives were gold, And gold the bread and viands manifold.

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The sheath may be beautiful, it may be exquisitely and appropriately enchased; but a sheath is no good without a sword.

From Robert Browning: How to Know Him by William Lyon Phelps

Selected from my stores, of matchless price, An urn shall recompense your prudent choice; By Vulcan's art, the verge with gold enchased.

From The Odyssey by Alexander Pope

Relating to the art of carving, enchasing, or embossing in low relief.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

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