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• v  enclose in, or as if in, a case
  my feet were encased in mud
• s  covered or protected with or as if with a case
  products encased in leatherette

• Wearing Pope Pius IX's Order of the Golden Spur over his white cravat, his immaculate dress coat clanking with his other medals, his "shapely white hands" encased in doeskin .
• This is a show, after all, whose appeal rests on an exuberant celebration of paint volcanoes, Twinkie force-feeding, amplified Cap'N Crunch--chomping and Jell-O-encased heads.
• The Master Chief is a supersoldier, the only one of his kind, equipped with--encased in, really--powerful battle armor.

• encase
• incase
• case
• cased
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News & Articles

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• Wine Talk: The new Frascati
  Wine enthusiasts of a certain age will remember the Chianti bottle encased in a fiasco, otherwise known as a straw flask. It was as ubiquitous as the red-checked tablecloth in Italian restaurants of the 1960s. A typical wine list in a neighborhood Italian restaurant of that era would feature several Chianti in fiasco, a token Bardolino, a token Valpolicella, a token soave and a token pinot ...
  June 14, 2013 - Peoria Journal Star
• Galaxy S5 could go the aluminum route, report says
  Android Geeks reports that the as-yet-unreleased S5 will be encased in an aluminum unibody like the iPhone and HTC One, under a new Samsung style philosophy dubbed "Design 3.0." Originally posted at News - Mobile
  June 13, 2013 - CNET
• BEHOLD: Miley Cyrus' Sweatpants/Denim Frankentrousers
  (Getty Images) Miley Cyrus 's left leg must have been really jealous of her right leg at last night's MySpace party (I know, right?) in L.A. Lefty had to spend the evening constrained by stiff denim, while righty was encased in gloriously stretchy sweatpant material. Observe: (Getty Images) The pants (Jean-sweats? Jweats?), which are by Ashish, were styled with a leather jacket and a matching ...
  June 13, 2013 - StyleBistro

Quotes

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• Brandon Routh in Inside Entertainment
  The blue stone is part of what some of the stones at Stonehenge are made of,said Routh who proposed at the English prehistoric monument. "So the ring is from there, but I got it encased in silver to strengthen it, and it looks cool."
• Coleen McLoughlin in Mirror.co.uk
  She also takes a dim view of trendy wedge heels - a favourite of fellow WAG Coleen McLoughlin - saying: "Some wedges look great but you can look like your feet are encased in cement."
• Kevin Warwick in InformationWeek
  From both technical and medical viewpoints I am very surprised by this information and I question the validity of it,Warwick said in an e-mail. "Most (if not all) RFID implants are silicon encased and hermetically sealed -- there can...