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That which befalls, comes, or happens; an event; an instance; a circumstance, or all the circumstamces; condition; state of things; affair; as, a strange case; a case of injustice; the case of the Indian tribes. In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge. Deut. xxiv. 13. If the case of the man be so with his wife. M…

ks let go at one time from the hand. Grabb. As when a cast of falcons make their flight. Spenser.

Coming without regularity; occasional; incidental; as, casual expenses. A constant habit, rather than a casual gesture. Hawthorne.

A sudden suspension of sensation and volition, the body and limbs preserving the position that may be given them, while the action of the heart and lungs continues.

chain of uniform density and perfect flexibility, hanging freely between two points of suspension, not in the same vertical line.

A covering of network for the head, worn by women; also, a net. Spenser.

To assign or show cause; to give a reason; to make excuse. [Obs.] Spenser.

To make hollow; to scoop out. [Obs.] The mouldred earth cav'd the banke. Spenser.

mb. ix. 3 Bring her up the high altar, that she may The sacred ceremonies there partake. Spenser. [The heralds] with awful ceremony And trumpet's sound, throughout the host proclaim A solemn council. Milton.

ruth; verily. [Archaic] Certes it great pity was to see Him his nobility so foul deface. Spenser.

A rate or tax. [Obs. or Prof. Eng. & Scot.] Spenser.

The giving up or vacating a benefice by accepting another without a proper dispensation.

; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm. To rub her temples, and to chafe her skin. Spenser.

To buy or sell; to trade in. He chaffered chairs in which churchmen were set. Spenser.

Traffic; bargaining. [Obs.] Spenser.

Chain bond. See Chain timber. -- Chain bridge, a bridge supported by chain cables; a suspension bridge. -- Chain cable, a cable made of iron links. -- Chain coral (Zoöl.), a fossil coral of the genus Halysites, common in the middle and upper Silurian rocks. The tubular corallites are united side by side in groups,…

hamperty; one who purchases a suit, or the right of suing, and carries it on at his own expense, in order to obtain a share of the gain.

Hazardous. [Obs.] Spenser.

child exchanged by fairies. Such, men do changelings call, so changed by fairies' theft. Spenser. The changeling [a substituted writing] never known. Shak.

To utter with a melodious voice; to sing. The cheerful birds . . . do chant sweet music. Spenser.