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Enchase, en-chās′, v.t. to fix in a border: to set with jewels: to engrave: to adorn with raised or embossed work.—p.adj.

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A good lexicon—and those that are put in the hands of pupils are seldom satisfactory—should always in some way restore the word to the natural context, enchase it, so to speak, in the jewel from which it was torn.

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The far immortal face In chosen onyx fine Enchase, Delicate line by line.

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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.

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The goldsmith's term chase is for enchase, Fr. enchâsser, "to enchace, or set, in gold, etc."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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