Enchaser vs Enchase – What’s the difference?

Enchaser vs Enchase - What's the difference?

As a noun enchaser is one who enchases.

As a verb enchase isto set (a gemstone etc) into.

enchaser

One who enchases.

(enchas)

To set (a gemstone etc.) into.

(label) To be a setting for.

*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queen) , I.xii:

*:My ragged rimes are all too rude and bace, / Her heauenly lineaments for to enchace .

To decorate with jewels, or with inlaid ornament.

To cut or carve, as with a weapon.

*1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), XII, lvii:

*:They took their swords again, and each enchas’d / Deep wounds in the soft flesh of his strong foe.