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 Akeroyd, James
At last he, with a low courtesy, put on her medical finger a pretty handsome golden ring, whereinto was right artificially enchased a precious toadstone of Beausse.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Motteux, Peter Anthony
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 Palgrave, Francis Turner
His heavy heel ground the enchased seal to rosy dust.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
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 Turner, Dawson
It is enchased in a shrine, and is to be seene but thorow a christall glasse, and on the side which may be noated, appeareth nothing but a head.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 563, August 25, 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 Webster, Noah
