Definition of case

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

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Ball :: Ball (n.) A flaming, roundish body shot into the air; a case filled with combustibles intended to burst and give light or set fire, or to produce smoke or stench; as, a fire ball; a stink ball..
Praam :: Praam (n.) A flat-bottomed boat or lighter, -- used in Holland and the Baltic, and sometimes armed in case of war..
Nest :: Nest (n.) A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger..
Supernaturalist :: Supernaturalism (n.) The doctrine of a divine and supernatural agency in the production of the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in the grace which renews and sanctifies men, -- in opposition to the doctrine which denies the agency of any other than physical or natural causes in the case..
Spermist :: Spermist (n.) A believer in the doctrine, formerly current, of encasement in the male (see Encasement), in which the seminal thread, or spermatozoid, was considered as the real animal germ, the head being the true animal head and the tail the body..
Uncase :: Uncase (v. t.) To take out of a case or covering; to remove a case or covering from; to uncover.
Ablative :: Ablative (a.) Applied to one of the cases of the noun in Latin and some other languages, -- the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away..
Degree :: Degree (n.) A step, stair, or staircase..
Award :: Award (v. t.) To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge; as, the arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant..
Wellhole :: Wellhole (n.) The open space left beyond the ends of the steps of a staircase.
Distribute :: Distribute (v. t.) To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.
Sheathless :: Sheathless (a.) Without a sheath or case for covering; unsheathed.
Legumin :: Legumin (n.) An albuminous substance resembling casein, found as a characteristic ingredient of the seeds of leguminous and grain-bearing plants..
Huswife :: Huswife (n.) A case for sewing materials. See Housewife.
Surplusage :: Surplusage (n.) Matter in pleading which is not necessary or relevant to the case, and which may be rejected..
Whether :: Whether (conj.) In case; if; -- used to introduce the first or two or more alternative clauses, the other or others being connected by or, or by or whether. When the second of two alternatives is the simple negative of the first it is sometimes only indicated by the particle not or no after the correlative, and sometimes it is omitted entirely as being distinctly implied in the whether of the first..
Even :: Even (a.) At the very time; in the very case.
Bunk :: Bunk (n.) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night..
Well :: Well (v. i.) An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole..
Protest :: Protest (v.) A declaration made by the master of a vessel before a notary, consul, or other authorized officer, upon his arrival in port after a disaster, stating the particulars of it, and showing that any damage or loss sustained was not owing to the fault of the vessel, her officers or crew, but to the perils of the sea, etc., ads the case may be, and protesting against them..
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