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
St. James' Town, an inconsiderable village, was before him, enchased, as it were in a valley, amid arid and scarped rocks of immense height; every platform, every opening, every gorge, was bristled with cannon.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 263, Supplementary Number (1827) by Various
The woods before and behind me made a square frame of silence, and I was enchased here in the clearing, thinking of all things.
From The Path to Rome by Hilaire Belloc
With that, a sword with stars of silver graced, The baldric studded, and the sheath enchased, He gave the Greek.
From The Iliad by Alexander Pope
From thence their fragrant teas to bring Without the leave of Britain's king; And Porcelain ware, enchased in gold, The product of that finer mould.
From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) by Philip Freneau
The background is enchased with an elegant foliated design somewhat Bornean in character.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 by Various
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
