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noun

Casket n.

A small chest or box, esp. of rich material or ornamental character, as for jewels, etc. "The little casket bring me hither."

A kind of burial case. (U. S.)

Anything containing or intended to contain something highly esteemed; as:

(a)

The body. ()

(b)

The tomb. ().

(c)

A book of selections. (poetic) "They found him dead... an empty casket."

Casket n. (Naut.) A gasket. See Gasket.

verb

Casket v. t. To put into, or preserve in, a casket. (Poetic) "I have casketed my treasure."

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Etymology of 'Casket'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Casket" Quotes from Famous Books

... the dead years garnered lie In this gem-casket, my dim soul; And that thy hand may, once, apply The key that ...

— A Hidden Life and Other Poems • George MacDonald

... Lungley, Inverugy, S. Fergus, at Banff; Dyce. Glamis has S. Fergus' cave and well. There was a S. Fergus chapel in the church of Inchbrayock, at Montrose, and a chapel and well at Usan, three miles south-east of Montrose. His head was preserved at Scone in a silver casket, his arm in a silver casket at Aberdeen, and his staff, baculus or bachul, at S. Fergus, in Buchan. In 721, Fergustus Epis. Scotiae Pictus signed at Rome canons as to irregular marriages. He belonged to the party that conformed to Rome as distinguished from the strict adherents ...

— Chronicles of Strathearn • Various

... general laughter, Sydney silently placed a new toy (a pretty little imitation of a jeweler's casket) at Kitty's side, and drew back before the child could look at her. Mrs. Presty was the only person present who noticed her pale face and the trembling of her hands as she made the effort which ...

— The Evil Genius • Wilkie Collins

... beautiful mask, and who should then be proud of those looks that any one could take from him and break to pieces; revealed in his true likeness, he would be only the more ridiculous for the contrast between casket and treasure. Or, if you will, imagine a little man on stilts measuring heights with people who have eighteen inches the better of ...

— Works, V3 • Lucian of Samosata

... some, we were able to give these men a little better burial than is accorded most soldiers who fall on the field of battle. In most cases a grave is dug, the body wrapped in a blanket and deposited without a casket and without ceremony. But for these boys, some of the men in our detachment made boxes to serve as coffins out of material that we had captured from an engineering dump. One big grave was dug and the bodies were laid in it side by side. One of the boys said a prayer and ...

— In the Flash Ranging Service - Observations of an American Soldier During His Service - With the A.E.F. in France • Edward Alva Trueblood

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