Enchase

Full definition of enchase

Verb

1. To set (a gemstone etc) into.
2. (figuratively) To be a setting for.
• 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xii:My ragged rimes are all too rude and bace,
  Her heauenly lineaments for to enchace.
3. To decorate with jewels, or with inlaid ornament.
4. To cut or carve, as with a weapon.
• 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XII, lvii:They took their swords again, and each enchas'd
• Deep wounds in the soft flesh of his strong foe.

Anagrams

• achenes