[f. CASE sb.2]
1. trans. To enclose in a case; to put up in a case or box; to incase, surround with.
1575. Turberv., Falconrie, 161. When he hath armed or cased the hearons tronke with a cane or reed.
1608. Shaks., Pericles, V. i. 112. Her eyes as iewell-like, and cast as richly.
1664. Power, Exp. Philos., I. 30. Long wings, like those of Flyes, which lye folded up, and cased within the former.
1748. Anson’s Voy., I. viii. 78. A great quantity of snow and sleet, which cased our rigging, and froze our sails.
1825. Hone, Every-day Bk., I. 1524. The felloes are cased in brass.
1856. Kane, Arct. Expl., I. xxiii. 309. Bones of seals, walrus, and whales—all now cased in ice.
1876. Smiles, Sc. Natur., ix. (ed. 4), 161. I procured the whole of them myself, preserved them and cased them.
b. with up, over.
1593. Shaks., Rich. II., I. iii. 163. Like a cunning Instrument cas’d vp.
1713. Steele, Guardian, No. 95, ¶ 1. They broke the Armour of Jacomo, which was cased up in the same Hamper.
1741–3. Wesley, Jrnl. (1749), 95. The sleet … froze as it fell, and cased us over presently.
1815. Sir W. Grant, in G. Rose, Diaries (1860), II. 522. He insisted on having them cased up, and sent back.
c. To cover or clothe with the hide of an animal, etc. (Chiefly said with reference to armor.)
1583. Stanyhurst, Æneis, II. (Arb.), 66. With lion his yellow darck skyn my carcase I cased.
1596. Shaks., 1 Hen. IV., II. ii. 55. Case ye, case ye; on with your vizards.
1613. Heywood, Silver Age, III. i. Wks. 1874, III. 129. Yet I ere night will case me in his skin.
1725. Pope, Odyss., XXIV. 535. They case their limbs in brass; to arms they run.
1854. Patmore, Angel in Ho., I. iii. 4. 52.
| And, first, I dreamt that I, her knight, | |
| A clarion’s haughty pathos heard, | |
| And rode securely to the fight, | |
| Cased in the scarf she had conferr’d. |
1863. W. Phillips, Speeches, iii. 40. Men cased in iron from head to foot.
d. fig.
1606. Shaks., Tr. & Cr., III. iii. 187. If thou would’st not entombe thy selfe aliue, And case thy reputation in thy Tent.
1871. Blackie, Four Phases, I. 127. A people … cased in the hard panoply of unreasoned tradition.
2. Technical uses.
a. Building. To cover the outside of a building with a facing of different material.
1702. W. J., trans. Bruyn’s Voy. Levant, lxiii. 235. It is a Building Cased with great Free-Stone.
1705. Arbuthnot, Coins, etc. (1727), 150 (J.). Then they began to case their Houses with Marble.
1734. Builder’s Dict., Casing of Timber-Work, is the Plaistering a House all over on the Outside with Mortar, and then striking it wet by a Ruler, with the Corner of a Trowel … to make it resemble the Joints of Freestone.
1876. Gwilt, Archit., Gloss. s.v., A brick wall is said to be cased with stone, or with a brick superior in quality.
b. Book-binding. To glue (a book), after sewing, into its ‘case’ or cover.
c. To line (a shaft, tube, etc.).
1879. Cassell’s Techn. Educ., IV. 337/1. The shaft is sunk as in ordinary mines, cased with timber.
d. Glass-making. (See quots.)
1849. Pellatt, Curios. Glass Making, 74. The modern practice of casing flint glass with one or more thin coatings of intensely coloured glass. Ibid., 114. The principle of casing a layer of colour upon flint crystal glass.
e. dial. (See quot.)
1813. A. Young, Agric. Essex, I. 26. The whole was clover; part of it was what is called cased, in June, that is, made a bastard fallow; tempered as they call it in Norfolk; and the operations of this casing were, first to clean plough it shallow; then it was roved across; then stitched up, and ploughed once more.
3. To furnish or fit with cases (cf. shelved).
1884. Athenæum, Jan., 23/3. The narrow gallery beyond (not yet completely cased) will contain, when arranged, a good stratigraphical series.
† 4. To strip of the case or skin; to skin. Obs.
1601. Shaks., All’s Well, III. vi. 111. Weele make you some sport with the Foxe ere we case him.
1634. Sir T. Herbert, Trav., 213. The Bats, some case like Rabbets.
1796. Mrs. Glasse, Cookery, vi. 126. Take a full grown hare and let it hang four or five days before you case it.
1803. Rees, Cycl., s.v. Casing, They say, flay a deer, case a hare.
