Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 24
Case (n.) (Gram.) 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 is properly a falling off from the nominative or first state of word; the name for which, however, is now, by extension of its signification, applied also to the nominative. -- J. W. Gibbs.
Note: Cases other than the nominative are oblique cases. Case endings are terminations by which certain cases are distinguished. In old English, as in Latin, nouns had several cases distinguished by case endings, but in modern English only that of the possessive case is retained.
Action on the case (Law), According to the old classification (now obsolete), was an action for redress of wrongs or injuries to person or property not specially provided against by law, in which the whole cause of complaint was set out in the writ; -- called also trespass on the case, or simply case.
All a case, A matter of indifference. [Obs.] "It is all a case to me." -- L'Estrange.
Case at bar. See under Bar, n.
Case divinity, Casuistry.
Case lawyer, One versed in the reports of cases rather than in the science of the law.
Case stated or Case agreed on (Law), A statement in writing of facts agreed on and submitted to the court for a decision of the legal points arising on them.
A hard case, An abandoned or incorrigible person. [Colloq.]
In any case, Whatever may be the state of affairs; anyhow.
In case, or In case that, If; supposing that; in the event or contingency; if it should happen that. "In case we are surprised, keep by me." -- W. Irving.
In good case, In good condition, health, or state of body.
To put a case, To suppose a hypothetical or illustrative case.
Syn: Situation, condition, state; circumstances; plight; predicament; occurrence; contingency; accident; event; conjuncture; cause; action; suit.
Case (v. i.) To propose hypothetical cases. [Obs.] "Casing upon the matter." -- L'Estrange.
Case (n.) An occurrence of something; "it was a case of bad judgment"; "another instance occurred yesterday"; "but there is always the famous example of the Smiths" [syn: case, instance, example].
Case (n.) A special set of circumstances; "in that event, the first possibility is excluded"; "it may rain in which case the picnic will be canceled" [syn: event, case].
Case (n.) A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy; "the family brought suit against the landlord" [syn: lawsuit, suit, case, cause, causa].
Case (n.) The actual state of things; "that was not the case".
Case (n.) A portable container for carrying several objects; "the musicians left their instrument cases backstage".
Case (n.) A person requiring professional services; "a typical case was the suburban housewife described by a marriage counselor".
Case (n.) A person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation; "the subjects for this investigation were selected randomly"; "the cases that we studied were drawn from two different communities" [syn: subject, case, guinea pig].
Case (n.) A problem requiring investigation; "Perry Mason solved the case of the missing heir".
Case (n.) A statement of facts and reasons used to support an argument; "he stated his case clearly".
Case (n.) The quantity contained in a case [syn: case, caseful].
Case (n.) Nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence [syn: case, grammatical case].
Case (n.) A specific state of mind that is temporary; "a case of the jitters".
Case (n.) A person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities); "a real character"; "a strange character"; "a friendly eccentric"; "the capable type"; "a mental case" [syn: character, eccentric, type, case].
Case (n.) A specific size and style of type within a type family [syn: font, fount, typeface, face, case].
Case (n.) An enveloping structure or covering enclosing an animal or plant organ or part [syn: sheath, case].
Case (n.) The housing or outer covering of something; "the clock has a walnut case" [syn: shell, case, casing].
Case (n.) The enclosing frame around a door or window opening; "the casings had rotted away and had to be replaced" [syn: casing, case].
Case (n.) (Printing) The receptacle in which a compositor has his type, which is divided into compartments for the different letters, spaces, or numbers; "for English, a compositor will ordinarily have two such cases, the upper case containing the capitals and the lower case containing the small letters" [syn: case, compositor's case, typesetter's case].
Case (n.) Bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow; "the burglar carried his loot in a pillowcase" [syn: case, pillowcase, slip, pillow slip].
Case (n.) A glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home [syn: case, display case, showcase, vitrine].
Case (v.) Look over, usually with the intention to rob; "They men cased the housed".
Case (v.) Enclose in, or as if in, a case; "my feet were encased in mud" [syn: encase, incase, case].
CASE, () Common Application Service Element (ISO, OSI)
CASE, () Computer Aided Software Engineering.
CASE, () Computer Aided Software Engineering.
CASE, () Common Application Service Element.
Case, () Switch statement.
Case, () Whether a character is a capital letter ("upper case" - ABC..Z) or a small letter ("lower case" - abc..z).
The term case comes from the printing trade when the use of moving type was invented in the early Middle Ages (Caxton or Gutenberg?) and the letters for each font were stored in a box with two sections (or "cases"), the upper case was for the capital letters and the lower case was for the small letters.
The Oxford Universal Dictionary of Historical Principles (Feb 1993, reprinted 1952) indicates that this usage of "case" (as the box or frame used by a compositor in the printing trade) was first used in 1588.
(1996-03-01)
CASE practice. A contested question before a court of justice, a suit or action, a cause. 9 Wheat. 738.
CASE, remedies. This is the name of an action in very general use, which lies where a party sues for damages for any wrong or cause of complaint to which covenant or trespass will not lie. Steph. Pl. 153 Wodd. 167 Ham. N. P.
CASE, () Vide Writ of trespass on the case. In its most comprehensive signification, case includes assumpsit as well as an action in form ex delicto; but when simply mentioned, it is usually understood to mean an action in form ex delicto. 7 T. R. 36. It is a liberal action; Burr, 906, 1011 1 Bl. Rep. 199; bailable at common law. 2 Barr 927-8; founded on the justice and conscience of the Tiff's case, and is in the nature of a bill in equity 3 Burr, 1353, 1357 and the substance of a count in case is the damage assigned. 1 Bl. Rep. 200.
CASE, () An action on the case lies to recover damages for torts not committed with force actual or implied, or having been occasioned by force, where the matter affected was not tangible, or where the injury was not immediate but consequential; 11 Mass. 59, 137 1 Yeates, 586; 6 S. & R. 348; 12 S. & R. 210; 18 John. 257 19 John. 381; 6 Call, 44; 2 Dana, 378 1 Marsh. 194; 2 H. & M. 423; Harper, 113; Coxe, 339; or where the interest in the property was only in reversion. 8 Pick. 235; 7 Conn. 3282 Green, 8 1 John. 511; 3 Hawks, 2462 Murph. 61; 2 N. H. Rep. 430. In these several cases trespass cannot be sustained. 4 T. 11. 489 7 T. R. 9. Case is also the proper remedy for a wrongful act done under legal process regularly issuing from a court of competent jurisdiction. 2 Conn. 700 11 Mass. 500 6 Greenl. 421; 1 Bailey, 441, 457; 9 Conn. 141; 2 Litt. 234; 3 Conn. 5373 Gill & John. 377. Vide Regular and irregular process.
CASE, () It will be proper to consider, 1. in what cases the action of trespass on the case lies; 2. the pleadings 3. the evidence; 4. the judgment.
CASE, () This action lies for injuries, 1. to the absolute rights of persons 2. to the relative rights of persons; 3. to personal property; 4. to real property.
CASE, () When the injury has been done to the absolute rights of persons by an act not immediate but consequential, as in the case of special damages arising from a public nuisance Willes, 71 to 74 or where an incumbrance had been placed in a public street, and the plaintiff passing there received an injury; or for a malicious prosecution. See malicious prosecution.
CASE, () For injuries to the relative rights, as for enticing away an infant child, per quod servitium amisit, 4 Litt. 25; for criminal conversation, seducing or harboring wives; debauching daughters, but in this case the daughter must live with her father as his servant, see Seduction; or enticing away or harboring apprentices or servants. 1 Chit. Pl. 137 2 Chit. Plead. 313, 319. When the seduction takes place in the husband's or father's house, he may, at his election, have trespass or case; 6 Munf. 587; Gilmer, but when the injury is done in the house of another, case is the proper remedy. 5 Greenl. 546.
CASE, () When the injury to personal property is without force and. not immediate, but consequential, or when the plaintiff Is right to it is in reversion, as, where property is injured by a third person while in the hands of a hirer; 3 Camp. 187; 2 Murph. 62; 3 Hawks, 246, case is the proper remedy. 8 East, 693; Ld. Raym. 1399; Str. 634; 1 Chit. Pl. 138.
CASE, () When the real property which has been injured is corporeal, and the injury is not immediate but consequential, as for example, putting a spout so near the plaintiff's land that the water runs upon it; 1 Chit. Pl. 126, 141; Str. 634; or where the plaintiff's property is only in reversion. When the injury has been done to, incorporeal rights, as for obstructing a private way, or disturbing a party in the use of a pew, or for injury to a franchise, as a ferry, and the like, case is the proper remedy. l Chit. Pl. 143.
CASE, () The declaration in case, technically so called, differs from a declaration in trespass, chiefly in this, that in case, it must not, in general, state the injury to have been committed vi et armis; 3 Conn. 64; see 2 Ham. 169; 11 Mass. 57; Coxe, 339; yet after verdict, the words "with force and arms" will, be rejected as surplusage; Harp. 122; and it ought not to conclude contra pacem. Com. Dig. Action on the Case, C 3. The plea is usually the general issue, not guilty.
CASE, () Any matter may, in general, be given in evidence, under the plea of not guilty, except the statute of limitations. In cases of slander and a few other instances, however, this cannot be done. 1 Saund. 130, n. 1; Wilies, 20. When the plaintiff declares in case, with averments appropriate to that form of action and the evidence shows that the injury was trespass; or when he declares in trespass, and the evidence proves an injury for which case will lie, and not trespass, the defendant should be acquitted by the jury, or the plaintiff should be nonsuited. 5 Mass. 560; 16 Mass. 451; Coxe, 339; 3 John. 468.
CASE, () The judgment is, that the plaintiff recover a sum of money, ascertained by a jury, for his damages sustained by the committing of the grievances complained of in the declaration, and costs. 12. In the civil law, an action was given in all cases of nominate contracts, which was always of the same name. But in innominate contracts, which had always the same consideration, but not the same name, there could be no action of the same denomination, but an action which arose from the fact, in factum, or an action with a form which arose from the particular circumstance, praescriptis verbis actio. Lec. Elem. Sec. 779. Vide, generally, Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.
CASE, STATED, practice. An agreement in writing, between a plaintiff and defendant, that the facts in dispute between them are as there agreed upon and mentioned, 3 Whart. 143.
CASE, STATED, The facts being thus ascertained, it is left for the court to decide for which party is the law. As no writ of error lies on a judgment rendered on a case stated, Dane's Ab. c. 137, art. 4, n. Sec. 7, it is usual in the agreement to insert a clause that the case stated shall be considered in the nature of special verdict.
CASE, STATED, In that case, a writ of error lies on the judgment which may be rendered upon it. And a writ of error will also lie on a judgment on a case stated, when the parties have agreed to it. 8 Serg. & Rawle, 529.
CASE, STATED, In another sense, by a case stated is understood a statement of all the facts of a case, together with the names of the witnesses, and, a detail of the documents which are to support them. In other words, it is a brief. (q.v.)
Caseation (n.) (Med.) A degeneration of animal tissue into a cheesy or curdy mass.
Case-bay (n.) (Arch.) The space between two principals or girders.
Case-bay (n.) (Arch.) One of the joists framed between a pair of girders in naked flooring.
Caseharden (v. t.) To subject to a process which converts the surface of iron into steel.
Caseharden (v. t.) To render insensible to good influences.
Casehardened (a.) Having the surface hardened, as iron tools.
Casehardened (a.) Hardened against, or insusceptible to, good influences; rendered callous by persistence in wrongdoing or resistance of good influences; -- said of persons.
Casehardening (n.) The act or process of converting the surface of iron into steel. -- Ure.
Note: Casehardening is now commonly effected by cementation with charcoal or other carbonizing material, the depth and degree of hardening (carbonization) depending on the time during which the iron is exposed to the heat.
See Cementation.
Caseic (a.) Of or pertaining to cheese; as, caseic acid.
Casein (n.) (Physiol. Chem.) 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. [Written also caseine.]
Casein (n.) A milk protein used in making e.g. plastics and adhesives.
Casein (n.) A water-base paint made with a protein precipitated from milk [syn: casein paint, casein].
Case knife () A knife carried in a sheath or case. -- Addison.
Case knife () A large table knife; -- so called from being formerly kept in a case.
Case knife (n.) A metal blade with a handle; used as cutlery.
Case knife (n.) A knife with a fixed blade that is carried in a sheath [syn: case knife, sheath knife].
Casemate (n.) (Fort.) 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 (n.) (Arch.) A hollow molding, chiefly in cornices.
Casemated (a.) Furnished with, protected by, or built like, a casemate. -- Campbell.
Casement (n.) (Arch.) A window sash opening on hinges affixed to the upright side of the frame into which it is fitted. (Poetically) A window.
A casement of the great chamber window. -- Shak.
Casement (n.) A window sash that is hinged (usually on one side).
Casemented (a.) Having a casement or casements.
Caseous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, cheese; having the qualities of cheese; cheesy.
Caseous degeneration, A morbid process, in scrofulous or consumptive persons, in which the products of inflammation are converted into a cheesy substance which is neither absorbed nor organized.
Caseous (a.) Of damaged or necrotic tissue; cheeselike.
Casern (n.) A lodging for soldiers in garrison towns, usually near the rampart; barracks. -- Bescherelle.
Casern (n.) Military barracks in a garrison tow.
Case shot () (Mil.) A collection of small projectiles, inclosed in a case or canister.
Note: In the United States a case shot is a thin spherical or oblong cast-iron shell containing musket balls and a bursting charge, with a time fuse; -- called in Europe shrapnel. In Europe the term case shot is applied to what in the United States is called canister. -- Wilhelm.
Case shot (n.) A metallic cylinder packed with shot and used as ammunition in a firearm [syn: case shot, canister, canister shot].
Caseum (n.) Same as Casein.
Caseworm (n.) (Zool.) A worm or grub that makes for itself a case. See Caddice.
Caseworm (n.) Insect larva that constructs a protective case around its body.
Cash (n.) A place where money
is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box. [Obs.]
This bank is properly a general cash, where every man lodges his money. -- Sir
W. Temple.
[pounds] 20,000 are known to be in her cash. -- Sir R. Winwood.
Cash (n.) (Com.) Ready money; especially, coin or specie; but also applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper easily convertible into money.
Cash (n.) (Com.) Immediate or prompt payment in current funds; as, to sell goods for cash; to make a reduction in price for cash.
Cash account (Bookkeeping), An account of money received, disbursed, and on hand.
Cash boy, In large retail stores, a messenger who carries the money received by the salesman from customers to a cashier, and returns the proper change. [Colloq.]
Cash credit, An account with a bank by which a person or house, having given security for repayment, draws at pleasure upon the bank to the extent of an amount agreed upon; -- called also bank credit and cash account.
Cash sales, sales made for ready, money, in distinction from those on which credit is given; stocks sold, to be delivered on the day of transaction.
Syn: Money; coin; specie; currency; capital.
Cashed (imp. & p. p.) of Cash.
Casing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cash.
Cash (v. t.) To pay, or to receive, cash for; to exchange for money; as, cash a note or an order.
Cash (v. t.) To disband. [Obs.] -- Garges.
Cash (n.sing & pl.) A Chinese coin.
Note: In 1913 the cash (Chinese tsien) was the only current coin made by the chinese government. It is a thin circular disk of a very base alloy of copper, with a square hole in the center. 1,000 to 1,400 cash were equivalent to a dollar.
Cash (n.) Money in the form of bills or coins; "there is a desperate shortage of hard cash" [syn: cash, hard cash, hard currency].
Cash (n.) Prompt payment for goods or services in currency or by check [syn: cash, immediate payment] [ant: credit, deferred payment].
Cash (n.) United States country music singer and songwriter (1932-2003) [syn: Cash, Johnny Cash, John Cash].
Cash (v.) Exchange for cash; "I cashed the check as soon as it arrived in the mail" [syn: cash, cash in].
Cashbook (n.) (Bookkeeping) A book in which is kept a register of money received or paid out.
CASH-BOOK, () Commerce, accounts. One in which a merchant or trader enters an account of all the money, or paper moneys he receives or pays. An entry of the same thing ought to be made under the proper dates, in the journal. The object of the cash-book is to afford a constant facility to ascertain the true state of a man's cash. Pard. n. 87.
Cashew (n.) (Bot.) A tree ({Anacardium occidentale) of the same family which the sumac. It is native in tropical America, but is now naturalized in all tropical countries. Its fruit, a kidney-shaped nut, grows at the extremity of an edible, pear-shaped hypocarp, about three inches long.
Cashew (n.) The cashew nut.
Cashew nut, The large, kidney-shaped fruit of the cashew, which is edible after the caustic oil has been expelled from the shell by roasting the nut.
Cashew (n.) Tropical American evergreen tree bearing kidney-shaped nuts that are edible only when roasted [syn: cashew, cashew tree, Anacardium occidentale].
Cashew (n.) Kidney-shaped nut edible only when roasted [syn: cashew, cashew nut].
Cashier (n.) One who has charge of money; a cash keeper; the officer who has charge of the payments and receipts (moneys, checks, notes), of a bank or a mercantile company.
Cahiered (imp. & p. p.) of Cashier.
Cashiering (p. pr. &vb. n.) of Cashier.
Cashier (v. t.) To dismiss or discard; to discharge; to dismiss with ignominy from military service or from an office or place of trust.
They have cashiered several of their followers. -- Addison.
He had insolence to cashier the captain of the lord lieutenant's own body guard. -- Macaulay.
Cashier (v. t.) To put away or reject; to disregard. [R.]
Connections formed for interest, and endeared By selfish views, [are] censured and cashiered. -- Cowper.
They absolutely cashier the literal express sense of the words. -- Sowth.
Cashier (n.) An employee of a bank who receives and pays out money [syn: teller, cashier, bank clerk].
Cashier (n.) A person responsible for receiving payments for goods and services (as in a shop or restaurant).
Cashier (v.) Discard or do away with; "cashier the literal sense of this word".
Cashier (v.) Discharge with dishonor, as in the army.
CASHIER. () An officer of a moneyed institution, who is entitled by virtue of his office to take care of the cash or money of such institution.
CASHIER. () The cashier of a bank is usually entrusted with all the funds of the bank, its notes, bills, and other choses in action, to be used from time to time for the ordinary and extraordinary exigencies of the bank. He usually receives directly, or through subordinate officers, all moneys and notes of the bank delivers up all discounted notes and other securities, when they have been paid draws checks to withdraw the funds of the bank where they have been deposited; and, as the executive officer of the bank, transacts much of the business of the institution. In general, the bank is bound by the acts of the cashier within the scope of his authority, expressed or implied. 1 Pet. R. 46, 70Wheat. R. 300, 361 5 Wheat. R. 326; 3 Mason's R. 505; 1 Breese, R. 45; 1 Monr. Rep. 179. But the bank is not bound by a declaration of the cashier, not within the scope of his authority; as when a note is about to be discounted by the bank, he tells a person that he will incur no risk nor responsibility by becoming an indorser upon such note. 6 Pet. R. 51; 8 Pet. R. 12.Vide 17 Mass. R. 1 Story on Ag. Sec. 114, 115; 3 Halst. R. 1; 12 Wheat. R. 183; 1 Watts & Serg. 161.
To CASHIER, () punishment. To break; to deprive a military man of his office.
Example: every officer who shall be convicted, before a general court martial, of leaving signed a false certificate relatingto the absence of either officer or private soldier, or relative to his daily pay, shall be, cashiered. Articles of war, art. 14.
Cashierer (n.) One who rejects, discards, or dismisses; as, a cashierer of monarchs. [R.] -- Burke.
Cashmere (n.) A rich stuff for shawls, scarfs, etc., originally made in Cashmere from the soft wool found beneath the hair of the goats of Cashmere, Thibet, and the Himalayas. Some cashmere, of fine quality, is richly embroidered for sale to Europeans.
Cashmere (n.) A dress fabric made of fine wool, or of fine wool and cotton, in imitation of the original cashmere.
Cashmere shawl, A rich and costly shawl made of cashmere; -- often called camel's-hair shawl.
Cashmere (n.) A soft fabric made from the wool of the Cashmere goat.
Cashmere (n.) The wool of the Kashmir goat.
Cashmere (n.) An area in southwestern Asia whose sovereignty is disputed between Pakistan and India [syn: Kashmir, Cashmere, Jammu and Kashmir].
Cashmere, WA -- U.S. city in Washington
Population (2000): 2965
Housing Units (2000): 1174
Land area (2000): 0.892518 sq. miles (2.311611 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.017558 sq. miles (0.045475 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.910076 sq. miles (2.357086 sq. km)
FIPS code: 10495
Located within: Washington (WA), FIPS 53
Location: 47.519515 N, 120.468967 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 98815
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Cashmere, WA
Cashmere
Cashmerette (n.) A kind of dress goods, made with a soft and glossy surface like cashmere.
Cashoo (n.) See Catechu.
Casing (n.) The act or process of inclosing in, or covering with, a case or thin substance, as plaster, boards, etc.
Casing (n.) An outside covering, for protection or ornament, or to precent the radiation of heat.
Casing (n.) An inclosing frame; esp. the framework around a door or a window. See Case, n., 4.
Casing (n.) The housing or outer covering of something; "the clock has a walnut case" [syn: shell, case, casing].
Casing (n.) The outermost covering of a pneumatic tire.
Casing (n.) The enclosing frame around a door or window opening; "the casings had rotted away and had to be replaced" [syn: casing, case].
Casings (n. pl.) Dried dung of cattle used as fuel. [Prov. Eng.] -- Waterland.
Casinos (n. pl. ) of Casino.
Casini (n. pl. ) of Casino.
Casino (n.) A small country house.
Casino (n.) A building or room used for meetings, or public amusements, for dancing, etc., sometimes having gambling tables or devices.
Casino
(n.) A
game at cards. See
Casino (n.) A business establishment for which the primary business is gambling, having various types of gambling tables, such as blackjack or roulette, and usually also slot machines, and sometimes other forms of gambling, such as poker; also, the main room of such an establishment where the gambling is conducted; as, the Trump casinos in Atlantic City.
Cask (n.) Same as Casque. [Obs.]
Cask (n.) A barrel-shaped vessel made of staves headings, and hoops, usually fitted together so as to hold liquids. It may be larger or smaller than a barrel.
Cask (n.) The quantity contained in a cask.
Cask (n.) A casket; a small box for jewels. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Cask (v. t.) To put into a cask.
Cask (n.) The quantity a cask will hold [syn: cask, caskful].
Cask (n.) A cylindrical container that holds liquids [syn: barrel, cask].
Gasket (n.) (Naut.) A line or band used to lash a furled sail securely. Sea gaskets are common lines; harbor gaskets are plaited and decorated lines or bands. Called also casket.
Gasket (n.) (Mech.) (a) The plaited hemp used for packing a piston, as of the steam engine and its pumps.
Gasket (n.) (b) Any ring or washer of made of a compressible material, used to make joints impermeable to fluids.
Casket (n.) A small chest or box, esp. of rich material or ornamental character, as for jewels, etc.
The little casket bring me hither. -- Shak.
Casket (n.) A kind of burial case. [U. S.]
Casket (n.) Anything containing or intended to contain something highly esteemed; as:
Casket (n.) The body. (-- Shak.)
Casket (n.) The tomb. (-- Milton).
Casket (n.) A book of selections. [poetic]
They found him dead . . . an empty casket. -- Shak.
Casket (n.) (Naut.) A gasket. See Gasket.
Casket (v. t.) To put into, or preserve in, a casket. [Poetic] "I have casketed my treasure." -- Shak.
Casket (n.) Box in which a corpse is buried or cremated [syn: coffin, casket].
Casket (n.) Small and often ornate box for holding jewels or other valuables [syn: casket, jewel casket].
Casket (v.) Enclose in a casket.
Casque (n.) A piece of defensive or ornamental armor (with or without a vizor) for the head and neck; a helmet.
His casque overshadowed with brilliant plumes. -- Prescott.
Casque (n.) (15-16th century) Any armor for the head; usually ornate without a visor.
Cass (v. t.) To render useless or void; to annul; to reject; to send away. [Obs.] -- Sir W. Raleigh.
Cass -- U.S. County in Iowa
Population (2000): 14684
Housing Units (2000): 6590
Land area (2000): 564.328727 sq. miles (1461.604630 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.679775 sq. miles (1.760610 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 565.008502 sq. miles (1463.365240 sq. km)
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 41.358575 N, 94.965991 W
Headwords:
Cass
Cass, IA
Cass County
Cass County, IA
Cass -- U.S. County in Illinois
Population (2000): 13695
Housing Units (2000): 5784
Land area (2000): 375.900754 sq. miles (973.578443 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 7.830552 sq. miles (20.281035 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 383.731306 sq. miles (993.859478 sq. km)
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 39.975926 N, 90.269918 W
Headwords:
Cass
Cass, IL
Cass County
Cass County, IL
Cass -- U.S. County in Indiana
Population (2000): 40930
Housing Units (2000): 16620
Land area (2000): 412.868168 sq. miles (1069.323600 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 2.055343 sq. miles (5.323314 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 414.923511 sq. miles (1074.646914 sq. km)
Located within: Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
Location: 40.746875 N, 86.345234 W
Headwords:
Cass
Cass, IN
Cass County
Cass County, IN
Cass -- U.S. County in Michigan
Population (2000): 51104
Housing Units (2000): 23884
Land area (2000): 492.178715 sq. miles (1274.736966 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 16.285911 sq. miles (42.180313 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 508.464626 sq. miles (1316.917279 sq. km)
Located within: Michigan (MI), FIPS 26
Location: 41.921510 N, 86.022079 W
Headwords:
Cass
Cass, MI
Cass County
Cass County, MI
Cass -- U.S. County in Missouri
Population (2000): 82092
Housing Units (2000): 31677
Land area (2000): 698.990544 sq. miles (1810.377121 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 3.683292 sq. miles (9.539683 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 702.673836 sq. miles (1819.916804 sq. km)
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 38.689373 N, 94.376663 W
Headwords:
Cass
Cass, MO
Cass County
Cass County, MO
Cass -- U.S. County in Minnesota
Population (2000): 27150
Housing Units (2000): 21286
Land area (2000): 2017.596075 sq. miles (5225.549622 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 396.613764 sq. miles (1027.224890 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2414.209839 sq. miles (6252.774512 sq. km)
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 46.897206 N, 94.373472 W
Headwords:
Cass
Cass, MN
Cass County
Cass County, MN
Cass -- U.S. County in Nebraska
Population (2000): 24334
Housing Units (2000): 10179
Land area (2000): 559.184020 sq. miles (1448.279901 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 7.025843 sq. miles (18.196849 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 566.209863 sq. miles (1466.476750 sq. km)
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 40.936518 N, 96.093393 W
Headwords:
Cass
Cass, NE
Cass County
Cass County, NE
Cass -- U.S. County in North Dakota
Population (2000): 123138
Housing Units (2000): 53790
Land area (2000): 1765.228881 sq. miles (4571.921620 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 2.678294 sq. miles (6.936749 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1767.907175 sq. miles (4578.858369 sq. km)
Located within: North Dakota (ND), FIPS 38
Location: 46.899583 N, 97.084444 W
Headwords:
Cass
Cass, ND
Cass County
Cass County, ND
Cass -- U.S. County in Texas
Population (2000): 30438
Housing Units (2000): 13890
Land area (2000): 937.352814 sq. miles (2427.732541 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 22.992951 sq. miles (59.551467 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 960.345765 sq. miles (2487.284008 sq. km)
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 33.077180 N, 94.323065 W
Headwords:
Cass
Cass, TX
Cass County
Cass County, TX
Cassada (n.) See Cassava.
Cassareep (n.) A condiment made from the sap of the bitter cassava ({Manihot utilissima) deprived of its poisonous qualities, concentrated by boiling, and flavored with aromatics. See Pepper pot.
Cassareep (n.) A flavoring made by boiling down the juice of the bitter cassava; used in West Indian cooking.
Cassate (v. t.) To render void or useless; to vacate or annul. [Obs.]
Cassation (n.) The act of annulling.
A general cassation of their constitutions. -- Motley.
Court of cassation, The highest court of appeal in France, which has power to quash (Casser) or reverse the decisions of the inferior courts.
CASSATION, () French law. A decision which emanates from the sovereign authority, and by which a sentence or judgment in the last resort is annulled., Merl. Rep. h.t. This jurisdiction is now given to the Cour de Cassation.
CASSATION, () This court is composed of fifty-two judges, including four presidents, an attorney-general, and six substitutes, bearing the title of advocates general; a chief clerk, four subordinate clerks, and eight huissiers. Its jurisdiction extends to the examination and superintendence of the judgments and decrees of the inferior court, both in civil and criminal cases. It is divided into three sections, namely, the section des requetes, the section civile, and the section criminelle. Merl. Rep. mots Cour de Cassation.
Cassava (n.) (Bot.) A shrubby euphorbiaceous plant of the genus Manihot, with fleshy rootstocks yielding an edible starch; -- called also manioc.
Note: There are two species, bitter and sweet, from which the cassava of commerce is prepared in the West Indies, tropical America, and Africa. The bitter ({Manihot utilissima) is the more important; this has a poisonous sap, but by grating, pressing, and baking the root the poisonous qualities are removed. The sweet ({Manihot Aipi) is used as a table vegetable.
Cassava (n.) A nutritious starch obtained from the rootstocks of the cassava plant, used as food and in making tapioca.
Cassava (n.) A starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics [syn: cassava, cassava starch, manioc, manioca].
Cassava (n.) Cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca [syn: cassava, manioc].
Cassava (n.) Any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch [syn: cassava, casava].
Casse Paper () Broken paper; the outside quires of a ream.
Casserole (n.) (Chem.) A small round dish with a handle, usually of porcelain.
Casserole (n.) (Cookery) A mold (in the shape of a hollow vessel or incasement) of boiled rice, mashed potato or paste, baked, and afterwards filled with vegetables or meat.
Casserole (n.) Food cooked and served in a casserole.
Casserole (n.) Large deep dish in which food can be cooked and served.
Cassia (n.) (Bot.) A genus of leguminous plants (herbs, shrubs, or trees) of many species, most of which have purgative qualities. The leaves of several species furnish the senna used in medicine.
Cassia (n.) The bark of several species of Cinnamomum grown in China, etc.; Chinese cinnamon. It is imported as cassia, but commonly sold as cinnamon, from which it differs more or less in strength and flavor, and the amount of outer bark attached.
Note: The medicinal "cassia" (Cassia pulp) is the laxative pulp of the pods of a leguminous tree ({Cassia fistula or Pudding-pipe tree), native in the East Indies but naturalized in various tropical countries.
Cassia bark, The bark of Cinnamomum cassia, etc. The coarser kinds are called Cassia lignea, and are often used to adulterate true cinnamon.
Cassia buds, The dried flower buds of several species of cinnamon ({Cinnamomum cassia, atc..).
Cassia oil, Oil extracted from cassia bark and cassia buds; -- called also oil of cinnamon.
Cassia (n.) Any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Cassia having pinnately compound leaves and usually yellow flowers followed by long seedpods.
Cassia (n.) Some genus Cassia
species often classified as members of the genus Senna or genus Chamaecrista [syn:
genus Cassia, Cassia].
Cassia (n.) Chinese tree with aromatic bark; yields a less
desirable cinnamon than Ceylon cinnamon [syn: cassia, cassia-bark tree,
Cinnamomum cassia].
Cassia, () Hebrew _kiddah'_, i.e., "split." One of the principal spices of the holy anointing oil (Ex. 30:24), and an article of commerce (Ezek. 27:19). It is the inner bark of a tree resembling the cinnamon (q.v.), the Cinnamomum cassia of botanists, and was probably imported from India.
Cassia, () Hebrew pl. _ketzi'oth_ (Ps. 45:8). Mentioned in connection with myrrh and aloes as being used to scent garments. It was probably prepared from the peeled bark, as the Hebrew word suggests, of some kind of cinnamon.
Cassia -- U.S. County in Idaho
Population (2000): 21416
Housing Units (2000): 7862
Land area (2000): 2566.445742 sq. miles (6647.063674 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 13.859946 sq. miles (35.897093 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2580.305688 sq. miles (6682.960767 sq. km)
Located within: Idaho (ID), FIPS 16
Location: 42.357856 N, 113.638731 W
Headwords:
Cassia
Cassia, ID
Cassia County
Cassia County, ID
Cassican (n.) (Zool.) An American bird of the genus Cassicus, allied to the starlings and orioles, remarkable for its skillfully constructed and suspended nest; the crested oriole. The name is also sometimes given to the piping crow, an Australian bird.
Cassideous (a.) (Bot.) Helmet-shaped; -- applied to a corolla having a broad, helmet-shaped upper petal, as in aconite.
Cassidony (n.) (Bot.) The French lavender ({Lavandula Stoechas).
Cassidony (n.) (Bot.) The goldilocks ({Chrysocoma Linosyris) and perhaps other plants related to the genus Gnaphalium or cudweed.
Cassimere (n.) A thin, twilled, woolen cloth, used for men's garments. [Written also kerseymere.]
Cassinette (n.) A cloth with a cotton warp, and a woof of very fine wool, or wool and silk.
Cassinian ovals () (Math.) See under Oval.
Cassino (n.) A game at cards, played by two or more persons, usually for twenty-one points.
Great cassino, The ten of diamonds.
Little cassino, The two of spades.
Cassino (n.) A card game in which cards face up on the table are taken with eligible cards in the hand [syn: casino, cassino].
Cassioberry (n.) The fruit of the
Viburnum obovatum, a shrub which grows from
Cassiopeia (n.) (Astron.) A constellation of the northern hemisphere, situated between Cepheus and Perseus; -- so called in honor of the wife of Cepheus, a fabulous king of Ethiopia.
Cassiopeia's Chair, A group of six stars, in Cassiopeia, somewhat resembling a chair.
Cassiopeia (n.) (Greek mythology) The wife of Cepheus and mother of Andromeda.
Cassiopeia (n.) A W-shaped constellation in the northern hemisphere near Polaris.
Cassiterite (n.) (Min.) Native tin dioxide; tin stone; a mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals of reddish brown color, and brilliant adamantine luster; also massive, sometimes in compact forms with concentric fibrous structure resembling wood (wood tin), also in rolled fragments or pebbly ({Stream tin). It is the chief source of metallic tin. See Black tin, under Black.
Cassiterite (n.) A hard heavy dark mineral that is the chief source of tin.
Cassius (n.) A brownish purple pigment, obtained by the action of some compounds of tin upon certain salts of gold. It is used in painting and staining porcelain and glass to give a beautiful purple color. Commonly called Purple of Cassius.
Cassius (n.) Prime mover in the conspiracy against Julius Caesar (died in 42 BC) [syn: Cassius, Cassius Longinus, Gaius Cassius Longinus].
Cassock (n.) A long outer garment formerly worn by men and women, as well as by soldiers as part of their uniform.
Cassock (n.) (Eccl.) A garment resembling a long frock coat worn by the clergy of certain churches when officiating, and by others as the usually outer garment.
Cassock (n.) A black garment reaching down to the ankles; worn by priests or choristers.
Cassocked (a.) Clothed with a cassock.
Clothed (a.) Wearing clothing. [Narrower terms: adorned (predicate), bedecked (predicate), decked (predicate), decked out (predicate); appareled, attired, clad, dressed, garbed, garmented, habilimented, robed; arrayed, panoplied; breeched, pantalooned, trousered; bundled-up; caparisoned; cassocked: costumed: decent] [Narrower terms: dight] [Narrower terms: dressed-up, dressed to the nines (predicate), dressed to kill (predicate), dolled up, spruced up, spiffed up] [Narrower terms: gowned] [Narrower terms: habited] [Narrower terms: heavy-coated] [Narrower terms: overdressed] [Narrower terms: petticoated] [Narrower terms: red-coated, lobster-backed] [Narrower terms: surpliced] [Narrower terms: togged dressed esp in smart clothes)] [Narrower terms: turned out] [Narrower terms: underdressed] [Narrower terms: uniformed] [Narrower terms: vestmented] Also See: adorned, decorated. Antonym: unclothed.
Clothed (a.) Covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak. fog-cloaked meadows.
Syn: cloaked, draped, mantled, wrapped.
Clothe (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Clothed or Clad; p. pr. & vb. n. Clothing.] To put garments on; to cover with clothing; to dress.
Go with me, to clothe you as becomes you. -- Shak.
Clothe (v. t.) To provide with clothes; as, to feed and clothe a family; to clothe one's self extravagantly.
Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. -- Prov. xxiii. 21.
The naked every day he clad, When he put on his clothes. -- Goldsmith.
Clothe (v. t.) Fig.: To cover or invest, as with a garment; as, to clothe one with authority or power.
Language in which they can clothe their thoughts. -- Watts.
His sides are clothed with waving wood. -- J. Dyer.
Thus Belial, with with words clothed in reason's garb. -- Milton.
Clothed (a.) Wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination; "clothed and in his right mind" -- Bible; "proud of her well-clothed family"; "nurses clad in white"; "white-clad nurses" [syn: clothed, clad] [ant: unclothed].
Clothed (a.) Covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak; "leaf-clothed trees"; "fog-cloaked meadows"; "a beam draped with cobwebs"; "cloud-wrapped peaks" [syn: cloaked, clothed, draped, mantled, wrapped].
Cassocked (a.) Dressed in a cassock; "cassocked monks".
Cassolette (n.) [F.] A box, or vase, with a perforated cover to emit perfumes.
Cassonade (n.) Raw sugar; sugar not refined. -- Mc Elrath.
Cassowaries (n. pl. ) of Cassowary.
Cassowary (n.) (Zool.) A large bird, of the genus Casuarius, found in the east Indies. It is smaller and stouter than the ostrich. Its head is armed with a kind of helmet of horny substance, consisting of plates overlapping each other, and it has a group of long sharp spines on each wing which are used as defensive organs. It is a shy bird, and runs with great rapidity. Other species inhabit New Guinea, Australia, etc.
Cassumunar (n.) Alt. of Cassumuniar.
Cassumuniar (n.) (Med.) A pungent, bitter, aromatic, gingerlike root, obtained from the East Indies.