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
There was for the second, a little Cupid set with brilliants; and besides these, a set of fine china for a tea-table enchased in gold, japan trunks, fans, and many gallantries of the same nature.
From Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) by H. Wragg
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
Its rim A spray of leaves enchased, white as with rime Night fallen.
From Lilith The Legend of the First Woman by Ada Langworthy Collier
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
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
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
