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incased

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Adj.1.incased - covered or protected with or as if with a case; "knights cased in steel"; "products encased in leatherette"
cased, encased
sheathed - enclosed in a protective covering; sometimes used in combination; "his sheathed sword"; "the cat's sheathed claws"; "a ship's bottom sheathed in copper"; "copper-sheathed"
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At one corner of the meeting-house was the pillory, and at the other the stocks; and, by a singular good fortune for our sketch, the head of an Episcopalian and suspected Catholic was grotesquely incased in the former machine while a fellow-criminal, who had boisterously quaffed a health to the king, was confined by the legs in the latter.
From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
The burial mounds, called Huacas, are really stupendous; although in some places they appear to be natural hills incased and modelled.
The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles View in context
(on the Christmas cards), with their curly hair and natty hats, their well-shaped legs incased in smalls, their dainty Hessian boots, their ruffling frills, their canes and dangling seals.
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context
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