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Matter in pleading which is not necessary or relevant to the case, and which may be rejected.

oath that one is under the actual fear of death or bodily harm from the person, in which case the person must find sureties that he will keep the peace.

; to oscillate. I tried if a pendulum would swing faster, or continue swinging longer, in case of exsuction of the air. Boyle.

n is disadvantageous or destructive to one of the organisms, but ordinarily it is used of cases where the association is advantageous, or often necessary, to one or both, and not harmful to either. When there is bodily union (in extreme cases so close that the two form practically a single body, as in the union of algæ…

other on a girder; also, the space between a wall and the nearest girder of a floor. Cf. Case-bay.

A work usually in the form of a redan, to inclose a space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It is arranged like a stockade.

inted tape, marked with linear dimensions, as inches, feet, etc., and often inclosed in a case, -- used for measuring.

s interchangeable, according as one form or the other is the more stable. It is a special case of metamerism; thus, the lactam and the lactim compounds exhibit tautomerism.

leaves. -- Tea caddy, a small box for holding tea. -- Tea chest, a small, square wooden case, usually lined with sheet lead or tin, in which tea is imported from China. -- Tea clam (Zoöl.), a small quahaug. [Local, U.S.] -- Tea garden, a public garden where tea and other refreshments are served. -- Tea plant (Bot.)…

An adjustable traveling bag consisting of two cases, the larger slipping over the other.

k. To see a prince in want would move a miser's charity. Our western princes tendered his case, which they counted might be their own. Fuller.

te. That the tenure of estates might rest on equity, the Indian title to lands was in all cases to be quieted. Bancroft.

form, or horizontal surface, of a rampart, on which the cannon are placed. See Illust. of Casemate.

Having the testicles naturally concealed, as in the case of the cetaceans.

A noun that has four cases only. Andrews.

otherwise, and the like. It is usually followed by the object compared in the nominative case. Sometimes, however, the object compared is placed in the objective case, and than is then considered by some grammarians as a preposition. Sometimes the object is expressed in a sentence, usually introduced by that; as, I wo…

A sheath; a case; as, the theca, or cell, of an anther; the theca, or spore case, of a fungus; the theca of the spinal cord.

Having the spores in thecæ, or cases.

The objective case of thou. See Thou.

The possessive case of the personal pronoun they; as, their houses; their country.