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The act or process of inclosing in, or covering with, a case or thin substance, as plaster, boards, etc.

Dried dung of cattle used as fuel. [Prov. Eng.] Waterland.

make a loud noise; as, to bang a drum or a piano; to bang a door (against the doorpost or casing) in shutting it.

The metal casing and flange fitted about a pipe where it passes through a roof. Boot catcher, the person at an inn whose business it was to pull off boots and clean them. [Obs.] Swift. -- Boot closer, one who, or that which, sews the uppers of boots. -- Boot crimp, a frame or device used by bootmakers for drawing and…

Material used in making boxes or casings.

The sheet iron casing at the end of boilers to convey the smoke from the flues to the smokestack.

Free; unrestrained; unconfined. As broad and general as the casing air. Shak.

oors, etc.; -- so named because fastened on the edge of the door, which butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt hinge.

An ornamental casing for a flowerpot, of porcelain, metal, paper, etc.

An inclosing frame; a casing; as, a door case; a window case.

A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie. Of the paste a coffin I will rear. Shak.

a combination of parallel and great circle sailing. -- Composite ship, one with a wooden casing and iron frame.

The base of a window casing, on which the elbows may rest.

The act of encasing; also, that which encases.

To incase or inclose in a border or rim; to surround with an ornamental casing, as a gem with gold; to encircle; to inclose; to adorn. Enchased with a wanton ivy twine. Spenser. An precious stones, in studs of gold enchased, The shaggy velvet of his buskins graced. Mickle.

A tube or casing filled with combustible matter, by means of which a charge of powder is ignited, as in blasting; -- called also fuzee. See Fuze. Fuse hole, the hole in a shell prepared for the reception of the fuse. Farrow.

am jacket, a space filled with steam between an inner and an outer cylinder, or between a casing and a receptacle, as a kettle. -- To dust one's jacket, to give one a beating. [Colloq.]

A piece of ornament drapery or short decorative hanging, pendent from a shelf or from the casing above a window, hiding the curtain fixtures, or the like.

The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth. Raymond.

A covering or incrusting with marble; a casing of marble; a variegating so as to resemble marble. [R.]