*enca*

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Encaged p. pr. & vb. n. Engaging. ] [ Pref. en- + cage: cf. F. encager. ] To confine in a cage; to coop up. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To register in a calendar; to calendar. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Encamped p. pr. & vb. n. Encamping. ] To form and occupy a camp; to prepare and settle in temporary habitations, as tents or huts; to halt on a march, pitch tents, or form huts, and remain for the night or for a longer time, as an army or a company traveling. [ 1913 Webster ]

The host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim. 1 Chron. xi. 15. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To form into a camp; to place in a temporary habitation, or quarters. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bid him encamp his soldiers. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of pitching tents or forming huts, as by an army or traveling company, for temporary lodging or rest. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The place where an army or a company is encamped; a camp; tents pitched or huts erected for temporary lodgings. [ 1913 Webster ]

A square of about seven hundred yards was sufficient for the encampment of twenty thousand Romans. Gibbon. [ 1913 Webster ]

A green encampment yonder meets the eye. Guardian. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To canker. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physiol.) The act of inclosing in a capsule; the growth of a membrane around (any part) so as to inclose it in a capsule. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To carnalize; to make gross. [ R. ] “Encarnalize their spirits.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; containing fruit; &unr_; in + &unr_; fruit; cf. L. encarpa, pl., Gr. &unr_;. ] (Arch.) An ornament on a frieze or capital, consisting of festoons of fruit, flowers, leaves, etc. [ Written also encarpa. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. Enchase. ] To inclose in or as if in a case. See Incase. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. covered or protected with or as if with a case; as, products encased in leatherette.
Syn. -- cased, incased. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. Casement. ] 1. The act of encasing; also, that which encases. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Biol.) An old theory of generation similar to emboîtement. See Ovulist. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. (Eng. Banking) To turn into cash; to cash. Sat. Rev. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eng. Banking) The payment in cash of a note, draft, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL., from Gr. &unr_; mark caused by burning, fr. &unr_;. See Encaustic. ] (Med.) An ulcer in the eye, upon the cornea, which causes the loss of the humors. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. encausticus, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to burn in; &unr_; in + &unr_; to burn: cf. F. encaustique. See Caustic, and cf. Ink. ] (Fine Arts) Prepared by means of heat; burned in. [ 1913 Webster ]

Encaustic painting (Fine Arts), painting by means of wax with which the colors are combined, and which is afterwards fused with hot irons, thus fixing the colors. --
Encaustic tile (Fine Arts), an earthenware tile which has a decorative pattern and is not wholly of one color. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. encaustica, Gr. &unr_; (sc. &unr_;): cf. F. encaustique. See Encaustic, a. ] The method of painting in heated wax, or in any way where heat is used to fix the colors. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. en- + cave: cf. F. encaver. Cf. Incavated. ] To hide in, or as in, a cave or recess. “Do but encave yourself.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. same as opencut.
Syn. -- opencut, strip(prenominal). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖a. [ F., fr. Provence, fr. L. provincia province. See Provincial. ] Of or pertaining to Provence or its inhabitants. [ 1913 Webster ]