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
For had the equall hevens so much you graced In this as in the rest, ye mote invent* Some hevenly wit, whose verse could have enchased Your glorious name in golden moniment.
From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Edmund Spenser
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
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 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
Paragon of jewels enchased in a carcanet of dazzling brilliants!
From All Around the Moon by Edward Roth
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
