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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'

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"Casket" Quotes from Famous Books

... never guess what 't was I found One morning in my basket; Oh! such a precious, precious gem For such a funny casket. ...

— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, V. 5, April 1878 - Scribner's Illustrated • Various

... her that her prudent course was, as she could not fly, to receive the troops as though she suspected nothing, and that her chamber was the best place wherein to await them. So her black Japan casket, which Harry was to carry to the coach, was taken back to her ladyship's chamber, whither the maid and mistress retired. Victoire came out presently, bidding the page to say her ladyship was ill, confined to ...

— Boys and girls from Thackeray • Kate Dickinson Sweetser

... medicine-man everywhere. But from another point of view they may be mere poetic extravagances such as are common in Celtic poetry.[1216] Thus Cuchulainn says: "I was a hound strong for combat ... their little champion ... the casket of every secret for the maidens," or, in another place, "I am the bark buffeted from wave to wave ... the ship after the losing of its rudder ... the little apple on the top of the tree that little thought of its falling."[1217] These are metaphoric descriptions ...

— The Religion of the Ancient Celts • J. A. MacCulloch

... represented his immortality. His statue, formed of gold and crowned with laurel, was borne on the shoulders of citizens, wearing the costumes of the nations and the times whose manners and customs he had depicted; and the seventy volumes of his works were contained in a casket, also of gold. The members of the learned bodies, and of the principal academies of the kingdom surrounded this ark of philosophy. Numerous bands of music, some marching with the troops, others stationed along ...

— History of the Girondists, Volume I - Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution • Alphonse de Lamartine

... credit to London or New York, we took an hour's rickshaw ride in the moonlight to the Forbidden City. The solemn pom-pom-pom of the funeral dirge for the Mother of the heir to the Chinese Throne, was indescribably impressive. About eighty men bore the casket from the dwelling to its canopied hearse. One of the mourner's told us that the fourteen-year-old heir to the throne, had not cared much, when all his playthings were taken from him, or even when his ...

— The Log of the Empire State • Geneve L.A. Shaffer

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