Available Definitions:
1) n. - 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.
2) n. - A box and its contents; the quantity contained in a box; as, a case of goods; a case of instruments.
3) n. - A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type.
4) n. - An inclosing frame; a casing; as, a door case; a window case.
5) n. - A small fissure which admits water to the workings.
6) v. t. - To cover or protect with, or as with, a case; to inclose.
7) v. t. - To strip the skin from; as, to case a box.
8) n. - Chance; accident; hap; opportunity.
9) n. - 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.
10) n. - A patient under treatment; an instance of sickness or injury; as, ten cases of fever; also, the history of a disease or injury.
11) n. - 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.
12) n. - 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.
13) v. i. - To propose hypothetical cases.