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encasement|ɛnˈkeɪsmənt|
Also incasement.
[f. encase v. + -ment.]
1. a. That which encases; receptacle, covering, sheath.
1741Monro Anatomy (ed. 3) 152, I have..described the incasement of the teeth. 1849Fraser's Mag. XXXIX. 664 Gorgons and dragons..look grim from out of their stony encasement. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. vi. 56 His..horn, from the tip to its bony encasement, four feet. 1863Sala Capt. Dang. III. v. 176 Wedge after wedge [was] driven in between his Legs..and the Iron Incasement.
b. Biol. = emboîtement. (See quot.)
1879tr. Haeckel's Evol. Man. I. ii. 36 Encasement..the false idea that the germs of innumerable generations previously formed and encased one in another, existed in every organism.
2. The act of encasing; the condition of being encased; spec. in Bee-keeping. Also concr. (see quot. 1884).
1825New Monthly Mag. XVI. 598 This incasement of our feet in icy boxes was very annoying. 1884J. Hunter Man. Bee-keeping (ed. 3) 15 In the case of a strange Queen's appearance in the hive..the stranger is seized by the Workers, who gather round her and form a closely packed ball..technically called ‘an encasement’. 1888F. R. Cheshire Bees II. 431 During examination..an encasement of the queen in her own hive is commenced. |