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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Case \Case\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Cased}; p. pr. & vb. n. {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. --Prescott.
2. To strip the skin from; as, to case a box. [Obs.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
cased \cased\ adjective
1. covered or protected with or as if with a case; as, knights cased in steel.
Syn: encased, incased. [WordNet 1.5]
2. same as {bound}; -- of books.
Syn: covered. [WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
cased
adjective
1: covered or protected with or as if with a case; "knights cased in steel"; "products encased in leatherette" [syn: {encased}, {incased}]
2: enclosed in a case
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