[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

case \case\, v. t. imp.  p. p. cased; p. pr.  vb. n.
   casing.
   1. to cover or protect with, or as with, a case; to inclose.
      1913 webster

            the man who, cased in steel, had passed whole days
            and nights in the saddle.             --prescott.
      1913 webster

   2. to strip the skin from; as, to case a box. obs.
      1913 webster
see also:
cased casing 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

case \case\, n. f. cas, fr. l. casus, fr. cadere to fall, to
   happen. cf. chance.
   1. chance; accident; hap; opportunity. obs.
      1913 webster

            by aventure, or sort, or cas.         --chaucer.
      1913 webster

   2. 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.
      1913 webster

            in any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge.
                                                  --deut. xxiv.
                                                  13.
      1913 webster

            if the case of the man be so with his wife. --matt.
                                                  xix. 10.
      1913 webster

            and when a lady's in the case
            you know all other things give place. --gay.
      1913 webster

            you think this madness but a common case. --pope.
      1913 webster

            i am in case to justle a constable,   --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. med.  surg. a patient under treatment; an instance of
      sickness or injury; as, ten cases of fever; also, the
      history of a disease or injury.
      1913 webster

            a proper remedy in hypochondriacal cases.
                                                  --arbuthnot.
      1913 webster

   4. law 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.
      1913 webster

            let us consider the reason of the case, for nothing
            is law that is not reason.            --sir john
                                                  powell.
      1913 webster

            not one case in the reports of our courts. --steele.
      1913 webster

   5. 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.
      1913 webster

            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.
      1913 webster

   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.
         1913 webster

   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.
        1913 webster
see also:
chance action on the case trespass on the case case all a case case at bar 
bar case divinity case lawyer case stated case agreed on 
a hard case in any case in case in case that in good case 
to put a case 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

case \case\ k=as, n. of. casse, f. caisse cf. it. cassa,
   fr. l. capsa chest, box, case, fr. capere to take, hold. see
   capacious, and cf. 4th chase, cash, enchase, 3d
   sash.
   1913 webster
   1. 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.
      1913 webster

   2. a box and its contents; the quantity contained in a box;
      as, a case of goods; a case of instruments.
      1913 webster

   3. print. a shallow tray divided into compartments or
      "boxes" for holding type.
      1913 webster

   note: cases for type are usually arranged in sets of two,
         called respectively the upper and the lower case. the
         upper case contains capitals, small capitals,
         accented and marked letters, fractions, and marks of
         reference: the lower case contains the small letters,
         figures, marks of punctuation, quadrats, and spaces.
         1913 webster

   4. an inclosing frame; a casing; as, a door case; a window
      case.
      1913 webster

   5. mining a small fissure which admits water to the
      workings. --knight.
      1913 webster
see also:
capacious chase cash enchase sash upper case 
lower case 

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

case \case\, v. i.
   to propose hypothetical cases. obs. "casing upon the
   matter." --l'estrange.
   1913 webster

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0

case
     n 1: 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,
           cause, causa
     2: 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: instance,
         example
     3: 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
     4: a problem requiring investigation; "perry mason solved the
        case of the missing heir"
     5: the actual state of things; "that was not the case"
     6: a statement of facts and reasons used to support an
        argument; "he stated his case clearly"
     7: a portable container for carrying several objects; "the
        musicians left their instrument cases backstage"
     8: 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, guinea
        pig
     9: a person requiring professional services; "a typical case
        was the suburban housewife described by a marriage
        counselor"
     10: the quantity contained in a case syn: caseful
     11: a glass container used to store and display items in a shop
         or museum or home syn: display case, showcase
     12: a specific state of mind that is temporary; "a case of the
         jitters"
     13: nouns or pronouns or adjectives often marked by inflection
         related in some way to other words in a sentence syn: grammatical
         case
     14: the housing or outer covering of something; "the clock has a
         walnut case" syn: shell, casing
     15: 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
     16: an enveloping structure or covering enclosing an animal or
         plant organ or part syn: sheath
     17: the enclosing frame around a door or window opening; "the
         casings had rotted away and had to be replaced" syn: casing
     18: bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow; "the burglar
         carried his loot in a pillowcase" syn: pillowcase, slip,
          pillow slip
     v 1: look over, usually with the intention to rob; "they men
          cased the housed"
     2: enclose in, or as if in, a case; "my feet were encased in
        mud" syn: encase, incase
see also:
lawsuit suit cause causa instance example 
event subject guinea pig caseful display case 
showcase grammatical case shell casing character 
eccentric type sheath pillowcase slip 
pillow slip encase incase 

[6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

583 moby thesaurus words for "case":
   bible truth, smyth sewing, abessive, ablative, absolute fact,
   accepted fact, accusative, action, actual fact, adessive,
   admitted fact, afghan, alien, allative, ammunition box, anyhow,
   anyway, apoplectic, approximative, argument, argumentum, ark,
   arthritic, article, ascender, aspect, at all events, attache case,
   axiom, back, backing, bag, bald fact, bandolier, bare fact, bark,
   barrel, basis, basket, bastard type, beard, bearings, bed linen,
   bedclothes, bedcover, bedding, bedsheet, bedspread, belly, bevel,
   bibliopegy, billfold, bin, binder board, binding, black letter,
   blanket, body, book cloth, book cover, book jacket, bookbinding,
   bookcase, boot, bottle, box, box up, bran, briefcase, brutal fact,
   buffalo robe, bug, bunker, burden, cadre, caisson, calf love, can,
   canister, canvass, cap, capital, capsula, capsule, cardcase,
   carton, case in point, casemaking, casement, casing, casing-in,
   cask, casket, cause, cause in court, cedar chest, chaff, chapter,
   character, chassis, check over, check up, chest, cigarette case,
   circumstance, cist, citation, clothes, coffer, coffin, cold fact,
   collating, collating mark, come what may, comfort, comforter,
   common case, compact, con, conceded fact, concern, condition, cone,
   cons, consideration, consumptive, container, containerize,
   contour sheet, corn shuck, cornhusk, count, counter, counterpane,
   cover, covering, coverlet, coverlid, crackpot, crank, crate, crib,
   cross reference, crush, dative, datum, delative, demonstrable fact,
   demonstration, descender, detail, dinkum oil, dispatch box,
   dispute, doorframe, duck, dust cover, dust jacket, dyspeptic,
   eccentric, eiderdown, elative, element, elenchus, em, emblem,
   embox, embrace, empirical fact, en, encapsulate, encase,
   encasement, encyst, enfold, enshroud, envelop, envelope, enwrap,
   epileptic, episode, essence, essive, established fact, estate,
   etui, event, eventuality, examine, example, exemplar,
   exemplification, explanation, exponent, fabric, face, facet, fact,
   fact of experience, factor, fanatic, fat-faced type, feet, file,
   file folder, filing box, fitted sheet, fix, focus of attention,
   focus of interest, folding, folio, font, footband, footing,
   for fear of, for fear that, frame, framework, framing, gathering,
   genitive, gist, given fact, gluing-off, gospel, gospel truth,
   groove, hamper, happening, hard binding, hard fact, head, headband,
   heading, hermit, hobo, holder, holster, hope chest, housewife,
   how it is, how things are, hull, husk, hussy, hutch, if,
   ignoratio elenchi, illative, illustration, in any case,
   in any event, in case, incident, incidental, incurable,
   indisputable fact, inescapable fact, inessive, infatuation,
   inpatient, inspect, instance, instrumental, invalid, invest, issue,
   italic, item, jacket, jam, jar, judicial process, kit, kook, lap,
   lap robe, lative, lattice, latticework, lawsuit, legal action,
   legal case, legal proceedings, legal process, legal remedy, lest,
   letter, letter file, library binding, ligature, like it is, linen,
   lining, lining-up, litigation, living issue, local case, location,
   locative, logotype, lone wolf, loner, lot, lower case, main point,
   majuscule, make a reconnaissance, mash, matter, matter in hand,
   matter of fact, maverick, meat, mechanical binding, meshuggenah,
   minor detail, minuscule, minutia, minutiae, modality, mode,
   monstrance, motif, motive, naked fact, natural, nick, niggerhead,
   nominative, nonconformist, not guesswork, not opinion, nut,
   object lesson, objective case, oblique case, occasion, occurrence,
   odd fellow, oddball, oddity, order, original, ostensorium,
   outpatient, outsider, pack, package, packet, packing case, palea,
   parcel, pariah, particular, pash, pass, passing fancy,
   patchwork quilt, patient, peel, peep, perfect binding, perlative,
   pi, pica, pickle, picture frame, pillbox, pillow slip, pillowcase,
   place, plaidoyer, plain, plastic binding, play the spy, plea,
   pleading, plight, pod, point, point at issue, point in question,
   portfolio, position, positive fact, possessive case, postulate,
   posture, pot, powder box, predicament, prepositional, print,
   problem, proceedings, pros, pros and cons, prosecution, protection,
   provable fact, puppy love, put under surveillance, queer duck,
   queer fish, queer specimen, question, quilt, quiver, quiz,
   quotation, rack, rank, rara avis, reason, receptacle, reconnoiter,
   reference, refutation, regard, relevant instance, reliquary,
   repair, representative, respect, revealed truth, rheumatic, rind,
   robe, roman, rounding, rubric, rug, sack, saddle stitching,
   salient fact, sample, sampling, sans serif, sarcophagus, sash,
   scabbard, scout, scout out, screwball, script, self-evident fact,
   sewing, shank, shape, sheath, sheathe, sheathing, sheet, sheeting,
   shell, shoulder, shroud, shuck, shut-in, sick person, side sewing,
   signature, significant fact, simple fact, situation, skeleton,
   skin, skippet, slip, slipcase, slipcover, slough, small cap,
   small capital, smashing, smother, snuffbox, sober fact, socket,
   soft binding, solitary, spastic, special pleading, specimen,
   spectacle case, spiral binding, spook, spot, spread, spy, spy out,
   stake out, stamp, stamping, standing, stapling, state, station,
   status, stem, stubborn fact, study, subject, subject case,
   subject matter, subject of thought, sublative, sufferer, suit,
   suit at law, suitcase, superessive, surround, swaddle, swathe,
   symbol, tailband, talking point, tank, tea chest, terminal case,
   terminative, text, the absolute truth, the case, the exact truth,
   the hard truth, the honest truth, the intrinsic truth,
   the naked truth, the nitty-gritty, the plain truth, the sick,
   the simple truth, the sober truth, the stern truth, the truth,
   the unalloyed truth, the unqualified truth, the unvarnished truth,
   theme, thing, till, tin, tinderbox, tipping, topic, tramp,
   translative, trimming, trunk, type, type body, type class,
   type lice, typecase, typeface, typefounders, typefoundry,
   typical example, undeniable fact, upper case, valetudinarian,
   vanity case, vasculum, vet, victim, view, vocative, wallet, watch,
   well-known fact, window case, window frame, wire stitching, wrap,
   wrap about, wrap up, wrapper, zealot, zombie

[7] : Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)

case
     common application service element iso, osi
     
     

[8] : Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)

case
     computer aided software engineering
     
     

[9] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

case
     
        1.  switch statement.
     
        2.  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
     
     
see also:
switch statement font 

[10] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

case
     
        1. computer aided software engineering.
     
        2. common application service element.
     
     
see also:
computer aided software engineering common application service element 

[11] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

case practice. a contested question before a court of justice, a suit or 
action, a cause. 9 wheat. 738. 

[12] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

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. 
1. 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. 
     2. 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. 
     3. 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. 
     4.-1. 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. 
     5.-1. 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. 
     6.-2. 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. 
     7.-3. 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. 
     8.-4. 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. 
     9.-2. 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. 
    10.-3. 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. 
    11.-4. 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. 

[13] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

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. 
     2. 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. 
     3. 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. 
     4. 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. 

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