encase

n footwear that covers the whole foot and lower leg n British term for the luggage compartment in a car n the swift release of a store of affective force n protective casing for something that resembles a leg n an instrument of torture that is used to heat or crush the foot and leg n a form of foot torture in which the feet are encased in iron and slowly crushed n the act of delivering a blow with the foot v kick

mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls encased in a red covering

The hypothesis that all living things proceed from preexisting germs, and that these encase the germs of all future living things, inclosed one within another.

glove that encases the thumb separately and the other four fingers together

A believer in the theory (called encasement theory), current during the last century, that the egg was the real animal germ, and that at the time of fecundation the spermatozoa simply gave the impetus which caused the unfolding of the egg, in which all generations were inclosed one within the other