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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 knife carried in a sheath or case. Addison.

A collection of small projectiles, inclosed in a case or canister.

hich the instruction is primarily a historical and inductive study of leading or selected cases, with or without the use of textbooks for reference and collateral reading.

The space between two principals or girders.

A degeneration of animal tissue into a cheesy or curdy mass.

To subject to a process which converts the surface of iron into steel.

Having the surface hardened, as iron tools.

The act or process of converting the surface of iron into steel. Ure.

OF or pertaining to cheese; as, caseic acid.

seeds of leguminous plants. Its reactions resemble those of alkali albumin. [Written also caseine.]

A bombproof chamber, usually of masonry, in which cannon may be placed, to be fired through embrasures; or one capable of being used as a magazine, or for quartering troops.

Furnished with, protected by, or built like, a casemate. Campbell.

ffixed to the upright side of the frame into which it is fitted. (Poetically) A window. A casement of the great chamber window. Shak.

Having a casement or casements.

A soluble product (proteose) formed in the gastric and pancreatic digestion of casein and caseinogen.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, cheese; having the qualities of cheese; cheesy. Caseous degeneration, a morbid process, in scrofulous or consumptive persons, in which the products of inflammation are converted into a cheesy substance which is neither absorbed nor organized.

A lodging for soldiers in garrison towns, usually near the rampart; barracks. Bescherelle.

Same as Casein.

A worm or grub that makes for itself a case. See Caddice.