enchase

English

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Etymology

From French enchâsser

Verb

1. To set (a gemstone etc.) into.
2. (figuratively) To be a setting for.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen, 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.
4. To cut or carve, as with a weapon.
   • 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XII, lvii:

     They took their swords again, and each enchas'd / Deep wounds in the soft flesh of his strong foe.

Anagrams

• achenes