"enchase" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1648, Robert Herrick, “Oberons Palace”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC, page 193:",
          "text": "The nails faln off by VVhit-flavves: Art's / VViſe hand enchaſing here thoſe vvarts, / VVhich vve to others (from our ſelves) / Sell, and brought hither by the Elves.",
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          "text": "The woods before and behind me made a square frame of silence, and I was enchased here in the clearing, thinking of all things.",
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        "To set (a gemstone, etc.) into."
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          "text": "My ragged rimes are all too rude and bace, / Her heauenly lineaments for to enchace.",
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        "To be a setting for."
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        "(figurative) To be a setting for."
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          "text": "Thy Garments ſhall be made of Medean ſilke, / Enchaſt with precious iewels of mine owne: […]",
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          "text": "The nails faln off by VVhit-flavves: Art's / VViſe hand enchaſing here thoſe vvarts, / VVhich vve to others (from our ſelves) / Sell, and brought hither by the Elves.",
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