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To cover or invest with flesh. [R.] Wiseman.

To inclose in a case; to inclose; to cover or surround with something solid. Rich plates of gold the folding doors incase. Pope.

That which forms a case, covering, or inclosure.

To cover with a casque or as with a casque. Sherwood.

The act of smearing or covering with wax. B. Jonson.

To cover or line with a crust, or hard coat; to form a crust on the surface of; as, iron incrusted with rust; a vessel incrusted with salt; a sweetmeat incrusted with sugar. And by the frost refin'd the whiter snow, Incrusted hard. Thomson.

A covering or inlaying of marble, mosaic, etc., attached to the masonry by cramp irons or cement.

Having the leaves so placed that the upper part of each one covers the base of the leaf next above it, as in hepatic mosses of the genus Frullania. See Succubous.

To contract; to bargain or covenant. Shak. To indent and drive bargains with the Almighty. South.

rown (Chem.), a brown resinous substance found in crude indigo. -- Indigo copper (Min.), covellite. -- Indigo green, a green obtained from indigo. -- Indigo plant (Bot.), a leguminous plant of several species (genus Indigofera), from which indigo is prepared. The different varieties are natives of Asia, Africa, and…

dissolved; perpetually binding or obligatory; firm; stable, as, an indissoluble league or covenant. To the which my duties Are with a most indissoluble tie Forever knit. Shak.

To cover the back of; to load or burden. [Obs.] Elephants indorsed with towers. Milton.

t, . . . though he may be induced, persuaded, prevailed upon, tempted. Paley. Let not the covetous desire of growing rich induce you to ruin your reputation. Dryden.

The immediate covering of the fruit dots or sori in many ferns, usually a very thin scale attached by the middle or side to a veinlet.

Covered; -- applied to seeds which have the usual integumentary covering.

Covered with induviæ, as the upper part of the trunk of a palm tree.

Unfaithfulness to the marriage vow or contract; violation of the marriage covenant by adultery.

To cover with a film; to coat thinly; as, to infilm one metal with another in the process of gilding; to infilm the glass of a mirror. [R.]

To wrap up or cover with folds; to envelop; to inwrap; to inclose; to involve. Gilded tombs do worms infold. Shak. Infold his limbs in bands. Blackmore.

To cover or overspread with, or as with, leaves. [R.] Howell.