case vb. (3 used in cookery parlance till about 1800)
1.
to encase Err. II. i.
85,
R2 I. iii. 163
“like a cunning
instrument cas'd up”
; in transferred uses akin to those of CASE
sb.21,
1H4 II. ii. 58
“Case ye, ye; on with your
vizards,”
Cym. V. iii. 22,
Per. V. i. 112
“her eyes as jewel-like,
And c-'d as richly.”
2.
to enclose, shut up,
surround
John III. i. 259
“A cased lion
(chafed†),”
Troil. III. iii. 187
“case thy reputation in
thy tent,”
Mac. III. iv. 23
“the casing air.”
3.
to skin All'sW. III. vi. 110.
Cf. CASE sb.2 1
(iv).
