enchase

English

Verb

enchase (third-person singular simple present enchases, present participle enchasing, simple past and past participle enchased)

1. To set (a gemstone etc) into.
2. (figuratively) To be a setting for.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xii:

     My ragged rimes are all too rude and bace, / Her heauenly lineaments for to enchace.

3. To decorate with jewels, or with inlaid ornament.

Anagrams

• achenes