Lexic.us

Definition of Cased

1. Adjective. Covered or protected with or as if with a case. "Products encased in leatherette"

Definition of Cased

1. Verb. (past of case) ¹

2. Adjective. having a case or covering; encased or clad ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cased

1. case [v] - See also: case

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cased

Literary usage of Cased

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1862)
"The iron casing up to the main-deck extends from stern to stern, but the two batteries are only cased amidships, covering 13 guns in each battery or each ..."

2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1862)
"The Iron-cased Ships of the British Navy. By EJ REED, Member and Secretary of the Institution of Naval Architecture. The construction of iron-cased ships of ..."

3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1864)
"Three others, of 60 guns each, were ordered, and three more were soon to be built, cased either with 4£-inch iron on a teak wood backing, ..."

4. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1862)
"... the progress of the French Marine, and the necessity for constructing Iron-cased Vessels for Defensive Purposes—Account of the French Ship La Gloire and ..."

5. Practical Building Construction by John Parnell Allen (1897)
"Window openings are filled in with two classes of joiner's framing—cased frames ... cased frames are of two parts, as stated above, consisting of sashes, ..."

6. Ship-building in Iron and Wood by Andrew Murray, Robert Murray, Augustin Francis Bullock Creuze (1863)
"Captain Moorsom on Iron- The attention of the Admiralty was also directed to iron- cased ships of war by the late Captain Moo som, RN, CB, a very talented ..."

7. Transactions (1871)
"RECORD of SOME EXPERIMENTS on HEATING WATER and CONDENSING STEAM by TUBULAR and DOUBLE-cased VESSELS. By WILLIAM ANDERSON, Ex-President. ..."

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