Case :: Case (n.) A box and its contents; the quantity contained in a box; as, a case of goods; a case of instruments..

Case :: Case (n.) An inclosing frame; a casing; as, a door case; a window case..

Case :: Case (n.) A small fissure which admits water to the workings.

Case :: Case (v. t.) To cover or protect with, or as with, a case; to inclose..

Case :: Case (v. t.) To strip the skin from; as, to case a box..

Case :: Case (n.) Chance; accident; hap; opportunity.

Case :: Case (n.) That which befalls, comes, or happens; an event; an instance; a circumstance, or all the circumstances; condition; state of things; affair; as, a strange case; a case of injustice; the case of the Indian tribes..

Case :: Case (n.) A patient under treatment; an instance of sickness or injury; as, ten cases of fever; also, the history of a disease or injury..

Case :: Case (n.) The matters of fact or conditions involved in a suit, as distinguished from the questions of law; a suit or action at law; a cause..

Case :: Case (n.) One of the forms, or the inflections or changes of form, of a noun, pronoun, or adjective, which indicate its relation to other words, and in the aggregate constitute its declension; the relation which a noun or pronoun sustains to some other word..

Case :: Case (v. i.) To propose hypothetical cases.

Case Knife :: Case knife () A knife carried in a sheath or case.

Case Knife :: Case knife () A large table knife; -- so called from being formerly kept in a case.

Case Shot :: Case shot () A collection of small projectiles, inclosed in a case or canister..

Case-bay :: Case-bay (n.) The space between two principals or girder.

Case-bay :: Case-bay (n.) One of the joists framed between a pair of girders in naked flooring.

Caseation :: Caseation (n.) A degeneration of animal tissue into a cheesy or curdy mass.

Cased :: Cased (imp. & p. p.) of Cas.

Caseharden :: Caseharden (v. t.) To subject to a process which converts the surface of iron into steel.

Caseharden :: Caseharden (v. t.) To render insensible to good influences.

Casehardened :: Casehardened (a.) Having the surface hardened, as iron tools..

Casehardened :: Casehardened (a.) Hardened against, or insusceptible to, good influences; rendered callous by persistence in wrongdoing or resistance of good influences; -- said of persons..

Casehardening :: Casehardening (n.) The act or process of converting the surface of iron into steel.

Caseic :: Caseic (a.) Of or pertaining to cheese; as, caseic acid..

Casein :: Casein (n.) A proteid substance present in both the animal and the vegetable kingdom. In the animal kingdom it is chiefly found in milk, and constitutes the main part of the curd separated by rennet; in the vegetable kingdom it is found more or less abundantly in the seeds of leguminous plants. Its reactions resemble those of alkali albumin..

Casemate :: Casemate (n.) A bombproof chamber, usually of masonry, in which cannon may be placed, to be fired through embrasures; or one capable of being used as a magazine, or for quartering troops..

Casemate :: Casemate (n.) A hollow molding, chiefly in cornices..

Casemated :: Casemated (a.) Furnished with, protected by, or built like, a casemate..

Casement :: Casement (n.) A window sash opening on hinges affixed to the upright side of the frame into which it is fitted. (Poetically) A window.

Casemented :: Casemented (a.) Having a casement or casements.

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