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To cover or protect with, or as with, a case; to inclose. The man who, cased in steel, had passed whole days and nights in the saddle. Prescott.

A collection of small projectiles, inclosed in a case or canister.

cast down. O my soul" Ps. xiii. 5. -- To cast forth, to throw out, or eject, as from an inclosed place; to emit; to send out. -- To cast in one's lot with, to share the fortunes of. -- To cast in one's teeth, to upbraid or abuse one for; to twin. -- To cast lots. See under Lot. -- To cast off. (a) To discard or r…

Inclosed within a building; as, a fountain or cistern castellated. [Obs.] Johnson.

To place or inclosed in a cell. "Celled under ground." [R.] Warner.

The part inclosed within the walls of an ancient temple, as distinguished from the open porticoes.

A compartment or cell; an inclosed space or cavity; as, the chamber of a canal lock; the chamber of a furnace; the chamber of the eye.

ym: [F., lit., Russian charlotte] (Cookery), a dish composed of custard or whipped cream, inclosed in sponge cake.

y, thus differing from a forest, which is not private property, and from a park, which is inclosed. Sometimes written chace. [Eng.]

The part of the body inclosed by the ribs and breastbone; the thorax.

mon in Norman architecture. Chevron bones (Anat.), The V-shaped subvertebral arches which inclose the caudal blood vessels in some animals.

That which encompasses or incloses; an inclosure. "Within the cincture of one wall." Bacon.

To encompass, as by a circle; to surround; to inclose; to encircle. Prior. Pope. Their heads are circled with a short turban. Dampier. So he lies, circled with evil. Coleridge. To circle in, to confine; to hem in; to keep together; as, to circle bodies in. Sir K. Digby.

The space inclosed within a circle, or within limits. A circuit wide inclosed with goodliest trees. Milton.

To inclose within a certain limit; to hem in; to surround; to bound; to confine; to restrain. To circumscribe royal power. Bancroft.

Surrounded with a wall; inclosed with a rampart.

Inclosed in a cyst. See Cysted.

A small inclosed pond used for gathering and greening oysters.

To inclose and hold in the hand or with the arms; to grasp; to embrace.

between teeth of a wheel with which it engages. Clearance space (Steam engine), the space inclosed in one end of the cylinder, between the valve or valves and the piston, at the beginning of a stroke; waste room. It includes the space caused by the piston's clearance and the space in ports, passageways, etc. Its volume…