Case
- n. A small fissure which admits water to the workings.
- n. A box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridge; a case (cover) for a book.
- n. A box and its contents; the quantity contained in a box; as, a case of goods; a case of instruments.
- n. A shallow tray divided into compartments or “boxes” for holding type.
- n. An inclosing frame; a casing; as, a door case; a window 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.
- 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.
- 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.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.