enlay

Verb

inlay (third-person singular simple present inlays, present participle inlaying, simple past and past participle inlaid)

1. (also, figuratively) To place (pieces of a foreign material) within another material to form a decorative design.
   • The body of the Scriptures hath in it limbs taken from other bodies; and in the vvord of God, are the vvords of other men, other authors, inlaid & inſerted. But, this vvork is onely vvhere the Holy Ghoſt is the VVorkman: It is not for man to inſert, to inlay other vvords into the vvord of God.1617 March 1 (date delivered; Gregorian calendar), John Donne, “A Lent-sermon Preached at Whitehall, February 20. 1617”, in XXVI. Sermons (Never before Publish’d) Preached by that Learned and...
2. To place an inlay in a tooth.
   • Porcelain inlaying is a grand thing in certain cases, and it is much to be regretted that the present existing circumstances do not warrant its being used more extensively.1895, Benjamin Holliday Catching, Catching's Compendium of Practical Dentistry - Volume 5, page 159

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