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  • verb Present participle of enchase.

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Examples

  • 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.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 Various

  • She must possess small _alabaster_ hands, _coral_ or _ruby_ lips, enchasing

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 331, September 13, 1828 Various

  • Oxford in mid-April was then, as always, a dream of gardens just coming into leaf, enchasing buildings of a silvery gray, and full to the brim of the old walls with the early blossom -- almond, or cherry, or flowering currant.

    A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1 Humphry Ward 1885

  • Unfair charge levied by the insurance company in applying the spread on your premium and enchasing it immediately (after deducting the spread) to pay the expenses and mortality charge.

    Tan Kin Lian's Blog 2008

  • There is no enchasing or punching of any sort, nor is there much ornamentation, but what ornamentation there is, is designed in such a spirited manner as to produce a result which hardly can be surpassed by Europeans at the present day. "[

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 Various

  • The proportions are all good, and this is especially the case with an enchasing of the enclosed lines. "

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 Various

  • Ling Roth, this casket "is bold and artistic; the high relief of the bizarre face and the zigzag conventionalized serpents and tadpoles being well thrown up by enchasing of the ground work.

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 Various

  • Oxford in mid-April was then, as always, a dream of gardens just coming into leaf, enchasing buildings of a silvery gray, and full to the brim of the old walls with the early blossom ” almond, or cherry, or flowering currant.

    Writer's Recollections Ward, Mrs Humphry 1918

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