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noun

Casket n.

A small chest or box, esp. of rich material or ornamental character, as for jewels, etc. "The little casket bring me hither."

A kind of burial case. (U. S.)

Anything containing or intended to contain something highly esteemed; as:

(a)

The body. ()

(b)

The tomb. ().

(c)

A book of selections. (poetic) "They found him dead... an empty casket."

Casket n. (Naut.) A gasket. See Gasket.

verb

Casket v. t. To put into, or preserve in, a casket. (Poetic) "I have casketed my treasure."

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Etymology of 'Casket'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Casket" Quotes from Famous Books

... the last stroke sounded they heard a crash and a sudden shrill cry; a dreadful peal of thunder shook the house, a strain of unearthly music floated through the air, a panel at the top of the staircase flew back with a loud noise, and out on the landing, looking very pale and white, with a little casket in her hand, stepped Virginia. In a moment they had all rushed up to her. Mrs. Otis clasped her passionately in her arms, the Duke smothered her with violent kisses, and the twins executed a wild war-dance ...

— The Canterville Ghost • Oscar Wilde

... to know and they were going to know! Honore defended the box energetically, for it was his heart and brain which they wanted to know, it was all his knowledge and beautiful dreams that they wished to lay bare to the light of day. There followed a veritable battle around that little wooden casket. Attracted by the outcries of the assailants, one of the masters, Father Haugoult, arrived in the midst of the tumult. Balzac's crime was proclaimed, he was hiding papers in his box and refused to show ...

— Honor de Balzac • Albert Keim and Louis Lumet

... dusk, before some flaring shop-window, the place immediately constituted itself behind footlights, became a framed stage for his figures. He hammered at these figures in his lonely lodging, he shaped them and he shaped their tabernacle; he was like a goldsmith chiselling a casket, bent over with the passion for perfection. When he was neither roaming the streets with his vision nor worrying his problem at his table, he was exchanging ideas on the general question with Mrs. Alsager, to whom he promised details ...

— Nona Vincent • Henry James

... we ate after the stockade was completed. After that there remained only a single bag of flour, another bag of Indian meal, and a pound or two of boucanned beef, besides three flasks of eau-de-vie, which Ringan had brought in a leather casket. The forest berries were not yet ripe, and the only food to be procured was the flesh of the wild game. Happily in Donaldson and Bertrand we had two practised trappers; but they were doubtful about success, for they had no knowledge ...

— Salute to Adventurers • John Buchan

... thus far?—That the true happiness is general happiness; that it is the happiness of men in societies; that it is happiness equally distributed. But this avails us nothing. The coveted happiness is still a locked casket. We know nothing as yet of its contents. A happy society neither does nor can mean anything but a number of happy individuals, so organised that their individual happiness is secured to them. But what do the individuals want? ...

— Is Life Worth Living? • William Hurrell Mallock

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