Dictionary entry

Case (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Case, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Cased (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Casing.] 1. To cover or protect with, or as with, a case; to inclose.

The man who, cased in steel, had passed whole days and nights in the saddle.

Prescott.

2. To strip the skin from; as, to case a box.