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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."





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Casing" Quotes from Famous Books



... So far as the pillars are concerned I know of no other time when this "casing" could have been done; and the architecture in Hollar's prints, as ...
— Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of St. Paul - An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch • Arthur Dimock
... sheep home early and made arrangements for the burial by measuring the outer casing of Brummy and digging a hole according to ...
— While the Billy Boils • Henry Lawson
... a seven-pointed star, four feet across. And was the ripped, transparent casing of its body and limbs another version of a vacuum armor? The material resembled stellene. As in an Archer, there were metal details, mechanical, ...
— The Planet Strappers • Raymond Zinke Gallun
... 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 ...
— The Centaur • Algernon Blackwood
... ambling into the coulee, rapped perfunctorily upon the door-casing, and entered the kitchen as one who feels perfectly at home, and sure of his welcome; as was not unfitting, considering the fact that he had "chored around" for Val during the ...
— Lonesome Land • B. M. Bower


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