uncase

English

Etymology

un- + case

Verb

uncase (third-person singular simple present uncases, present participle uncasing, simple past and past participle uncased)

  1. (transitive) To take out of a case or covering; to uncover.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To strip; to flay.
  3. (transitive, military) To display, or spread to view, as a flag, or the colors of a military body.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for uncase in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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