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A case with shelves for holding books, esp. one with glazed doors.

A small traveling case or bandbox; formerly, a chest. A capcase for your linen and your plate. Beau. & Fl.

See Carcass.

A case for visiting cards.

To strip; to undress. Shak.

The surrounding frame into which a door shuts.

To inclose as in a case. See Incase. Beau. & Fl.

The act of encasing; also, that which encases.

The covering of an insect, esp. the elytra of beetles.

To inclose in a case; to inclose; to cover or surround with something solid. Rich plates of gold the folding doors incase. Pope.

The act or process of inclosing with a case, or the state of being incased.

Cased or covered with iron, as a vessel; ironclad.

Pertaining to, or kept in, the lower case; -- used to denote the small letters, in distinction from capitals and small capitals. See the Note under 1st Case, n., 3.

A case to keep needles.

Perchance; by chance. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Perhaps; perchance. [Obs.] Bacon.

A removable case or covering for a pillow, usually of white linen or cotton cloth.

Scarcely; hardly. [Obs. or Colloq.] Robynson (More's Utopia)

Cottage cheese. [Local, U. S.]

f stairs with their supporting framework, casing, balusters, etc. To make a complete staircase is a curious piece of architecture. Sir H. Wotton. Staircase shell. (Zoöl.) (a) Any scalaria, or wentletrap. (b) Any species of Solarium, or perspective shell.