单词 | cased |
释义 | casedadj. 1. Enclosed in or furnished with a case; kept in a case. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > [adjective] > enclosed closedc1275 clausedc1440 conclosec1450 close1489 caseda1500 enclosed1552 included1552 bayed1577 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > [adjective] > wrapped > encased jacketed1552 cased1789 a1500 in Englische Studien (1885) 8 280 Item, do stuffe you of suche beddyng as woll be founde atte Venyse..with a pailet of esement couered, as well as vr[i]nalles cased. 1517 Decreet of Spulzie in Misc. Spalding Club (1842) II. 78 Tua caissit girnalis for mele, price of the pece iiij merkis. 1523 in Accts. Ld. High Treasurer (1903) V. 220 Ane greit casit windo to the quenis greit chalmer in the west gavill. 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. sig. biiv/2 The casede Lancette. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iii. i. 185 Thou maist hold..A cased Lion by the mortall paw. View more context for this quotation a1661 W. Brereton Trav. (1844) 11 Adorned over mantle-tree with birds cased. 1789 Trans. Royal Irish Acad. 1788 2 120 The cased needle [i.e. a steel needle cased in soft iron] preserved its magnetism in a much more perfect degree than the needle not cased. 1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 944 Cased Sash Frames, those which have their interior vertical sides hollow, to admit the weights. 1896 Argosy Mar. 618/1 A really good, prettily cased ‘woman's cigarette’, made from the best Turkish tobacco. 1963 G. I. Taylor & H. Jones in G. K. Batchelor Sci. Papers Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor III. xl. 363 The ratio of the positive blast impulse of a cased charge to that of an equal bare charge. 1989 Antique Collecting Mar. 13/2 (advt.) A good example of a best quality, English, repoussé cased watch. 2006 Pioneer Press (St. Paul, Minnesota) (Nexis) 3 Aug. Game Fair, an annual family festival where cased guns and leashed dogs are welcome. 2. Of an animal carcass: skinned by making a single slit along the hind legs, so that the skin may be removed whole. Also (of an animal skin): removed in this way. Cf. case v.1 6. ΚΠ 1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar v. 82 I would fain see him walk in Quirpo, like a cas'd Rabbit, without his holy Fur upon his Back. 1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote II. ii. iii. 118 There was an innumerable quantity of cased hares, and ready-plucked fowls. 1856 Friends' Rev. 7 June 619/2 The Delawares purchased 400 bushels of shelled corn at White Water, which they carried away in cased skins. 1881 Sci. Amer. Suppl. 14 May 4457/1 Good cased skins sell in New York at 75c. to $1.25. 1921 Fur Trade Rev. Sept. 209/2 At date of quotations there was a rush for cased foxes and good prices were being paid for the cheaper qualities. 2002 M. Burch Ultimate Guide Skinning & Tanning vi. 110 Slip the cased skin over the fleshing beam until the nose of the animal hits the end. Compounds cased glass n. glass consisting of two or more fused layers of different colours, typically cut so as to reveal the inner layers. ΚΠ 1849 A. Pellatt Curiosities of Glass Making 115 Cased coloured glass for windows. 1936 Pop. Mech. Sept. 335/2 Cased glass, made by fusing a layer of colored glass to ordinary glass and cutting or engraving through the colored part. 2008 I. Armstrong Victorian Glassworlds ix. 222 The Venetian and Bohemian ‘cased’ glass (layered coloured glass cut to reveal the inner shell) practised since the 1830s. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.a1500 |
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