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Casing   /kˈeɪsɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Casing  n.  
1.
The act or process of inclosing in, or covering with, a case or thin substance, as plaster, boards, etc.
2.
An outside covering, for protection or ornament, or to precent the radiation of heat.
3.
An inclosing frame; esp. the framework around a door or a window. See Case, n., 4.


verb
Case  v. t.  (past & past part. cased; pres. part. casing)  
1.
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."
2.
To strip the skin from; as, to case a box. (Obs.)


Cash  v. t.  (past & past part. cashed; pres. part. casing)  To pay, or to receive, cash for; to exchange for money; as, cash a note or an order.


Cash  v. t.  To disband. (Obs.)


Case  v. i.  To propose hypothetical cases. (Obs.) "Casing upon the matter."





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"Casing" Quotes from Famous Books



... casing of the barricade going to behave under the cannon-balls? Would they effect a breach? That was the question. While the insurgents were reloading their guns, the artillery-men were loading ...
— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo
... his ramrod back into its casing, he glanced at the woods behind Clayton, and said something to his companions. They, too, raised their eyes, and at the same moment the old mountaineer plucked Clayton ...
— A Mountain Europa • John Fox Jr.
... incessantly to my trumps to keep them safe and sound—now warding off with my single pen the shower of dastard blows that fell upon thy rear—now narrowly shielding thee from a deadly thrust by a mere tobacco-box—now casing thy dauntless skull with adamant, when even thy stubborn ram beaver failed to resist the sword of the stout Risingh—and now, not merely bringing thee off alive, but triumphant, from the clutches of the gigantic Swede, by the desperate means of a paltry ...
— Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete • Washington Irving
... own person, next, it softly folded him in, casing his inner being with glory and this crowding sense of beauty. This increased manifestation of psychic activity reached down into the very core of himself, like invisible fingers playing upon an instrument. Notes—powers—in his soul, hitherto ...
— The Centaur • Algernon Blackwood
... smashed! That grenade has burst the casing and shaken the whole apparatus. Give me a rifle, one ...
— With Joffre at Verdun - A Story of the Western Front • F. S. Brereton


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