Etymology
Origin of uncase
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
That which made it seem the greater Mystery was, that when they came behind the Scenes to uncase, and examine the Matter, they found but twelve Antiques, whereas on the Stage there were thirteen .
From Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Nay, quick, uncase, I am bold to borrow it, I'll leave my gown; change is no robbery.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 by Various
Her own had been lent to a friend the preceding evening, and the mother would have held herself most culpably extravagant to uncase hers without a most palpable necessity.
From Jane Talbot by Charles Brockden Brown
Then all the beasts he causd' assembled bee, To heare their doome, and sad ensample see: The Foxe, first author of that treacherie He did uncase, and then away let flie.
From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Edmund Spenser
As to the Generosity of his Temper, he tells his poor Footman, If he did not wait better—he would turn him away, in the insolent Phrase of, I'll uncase you.
From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Joseph Addison
And then, a green cardboard box filled the screen, as a smiling woman and her daughter uncased a newfangled cleaning tool.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2022
It will come in casings or uncased and needs to be cooked before eating.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2020
Smith’s attorney, John Monroe, says the Legislature changed the law in 2011 to allow loaded, uncased handguns in vehicles.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 30, 2017
Once, retrieving footage of past games for me, he produced a shopping bag full of recordable DVDs, some uncased and unlabeled.
From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2011
He paddled into Hummil's saddle-room in his bare feet and uncased a twelve-bore rifle, an express, and a revolver.
From Life's Handicap by Rudyard Kipling
The lobster, as he grows, is furnished with a way of uncasing himself of his buckler, and drawing his legs out of his boots when they become too small for him.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828 by Various
Do you not see Pompey is uncasing for the combat?
From Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare
At this moment Guru and Amir Ali ran up excitedly, uncasing the heavy guns and loading them as they ran.
From The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series by Fred J. Arting
Master, let me take you a button hole lower; do you not see, Pompey is uncasing for the combat?
From An Old Sailor's Yarns by N. (Nathaniel) Ames
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
