| • | 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. | 
											
															| • | A box and its contents; the quantity contained in a box; as,
   a case of goods; a case of instruments. | 
											
															| • | A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for
   holding type. | 
											
															| • | An inclosing frame; a casing; as, a door case; a window case. | 
											
															| • | A small fissure which admits water to the workings. | 
											
															| • | To cover or protect with, or as with, a case; to inclose. | 
											
															| • | To strip the skin from; as, to case a box. | 
											
															| • | Chance; accident; hap; opportunity. | 
											
															| • | 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. | 
											
															| • | A patient under treatment; an instance of sickness or injury;
   as, ten cases of fever; also, the history of a disease or injury. | 
											
															| • | 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. | 
											
															| • | 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. | 
											
															| • | To propose hypothetical cases. |