incask
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incask (third-person singular simple present incasks, present participle incasking, simple past and past participle incasked)
- (transitive, archaic) To cover with a casque or as with a casque.
- 1624, William Camden, William Udall, The Historie of the Life and Death of Mary Stuart Queene of Scotland, page 232:
- And being demanded of that which was donc by Nayu and Curlus,
Incasked if euer it was heard, that the seruants were suborned and admitted as witnesses to the death of their Masters
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “incask”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)