Casa
‖Ca″sa (?), n. [Sp. or It., fr. L. casa cabin.] A house or mansion.I saw that Enriquez had made no attempt to modernize the old casa, and that even the garden was left in its la...
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Casal
Ca″sal (?), a.(Gram.) Of or pertaining to case; as, a casal ending.
Cascabel
Cas″ca‐bel (?), n. [Sp. cascabel a little bell, also (fr. the shape), a knob at the breech end of a cannon.] The projection in rear of the breech of a cannon, usually a knob or ...
Cascade
Cas‐cade″ (kăs‐kād″), n. [F. cascade, fr. It. cascata, fr. cascare to fall.] A fall of water over a precipice, as in a river or brook; a waterfall less than a cataract.The silve...
Cascade (2)
Cas‐cade″, v. i. 1. To fall in a cascade. Lowell.2. To vomit. Smollett.
Cascade method
Cas‐cade″ meth″od. (Physics) A method of attaining successively lower temperatures by utilizing the cooling effect of the expansion of one gas in condensing another less easily ...
Cascade system
Cascade system. (Elec.) A system or method of connecting and operating two induction motors so that the primary circuit of one is connected to the secondary circuit of the other...
Cascalho
‖Cas‐cal″ho (?), n. A deposit of pebbles, gravel, and ferruginous sand, in which the Brazilian diamond is usually found.
Cascara buckthorn
Cas″ca‐ra buck″thorn′ (?). (Bot.) The buckthorn (Rhamnus Purshiana) of the Pacific coast of the United States, which yields cascara sagrada.
Cascara sagrada
‖Cas″ca‐ra sa‐gra″da (?). Holy bark; the bark of the California buckthorn (Rhamnus Purshianus), used as a mild cathartic or laxative.
Cascarilla
Cas′ca‐ril″la (?), n. [Sp., small thin bark, Peruvian bark, dim. of cáscara bark.] (Bot.) A euphorbiaceous West Indian shrub (Croton Eleutheria); also, its aromatic bark.Cascari...
Cascarillin
Cas′ca‐ril″lin (?), n.(Chem.) A white, crystallizable, bitter substance extracted from oil of cascarilla.
Cascaron
‖Cas′ca‐ron″ (?), n. [Sp. cascarón.] Lit., an eggshell; hence, an eggshell filled with confetti to be thrown during balls, carnivals, etc.
Case
Case (kās), n. [OF. casse, F. caisse (cf. It. cassa), fr. L. capsa chest, box, case, fr. capere to take, hold. See Capacious, and cf. 4th Chase, Cash, Enchase, 3d Sash.]1. A box...
Case (2)
Case, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Cased (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Casing.] 1. To cover or protect with, or as with, a case; to inclose.The man who, cased in steel, had passed whole days and ni...
Case (3)
Case, n. [F. cas, fr. L. casus, fr. cadere to fall, to happen. Cf. Chance.] 1. Chance; accident; hap; opportunity.By aventure, or sort, or cas.Chaucer.2. That which befalls, com...
Case (4)
Case, v. i. To propose hypothetical cases. “Casing upon the matter.” L'Estrange.
Case knife
Case″ knife′ (?). 1. A knife carried in a sheath or case. Addison.2. A large table knife; — so called from being formerly kept in a case.
Case shot
Case″ shot′ (?). (Mil.) A collection of small projectiles, inclosed in a case or canister.☞ In the United States a case shot is a thin spherical or oblong cast-iron shell contai...
Case system
Case system. (Law) The system of teaching law in which the instruction is primarily a historical and inductive study of leading or selected cases, with or without the use of tex...
Case-bay
Case″–bay′ (?), n.(Arch.) (a) The space between two principals or girders. (b) One of the joists framed between a pair of girders in naked flooring.
Caseation
Ca′se‐a″tion (?), n. [Cf. F. caséation. See Casein.] (Med.) A degeneration of animal tissue into a cheesy or curdy mass.
Caseharden
Case″hard′en (?), v. t. 1. To subject to a process which converts the surface of iron into steel.2. To render insensible to good influences.
Casehardened
Case″hard′ened (?), a. 1. Having the surface hardened, as iron tools.2. Hardened against, or insusceptible to, good influences; rendered callous by persistence in wrongdoing or ...
Casehardening
Case″hard′en‐ing, n. The act or process of converting the surface of iron into steel. Ure.☞ Casehardening is now commonly effected by cementation with charcoal or other carboniz...
Caseic
Ca″se‐ic (?), a. [Cf. F. caséique, fr. L. caseus cheese.] Of or pertaining to cheese; as, caseic acid.
Casein
Ca″se‐in (?), n. [Cf. F. caséine, fr. L. caseur cheese. Cf. Cheese.] (Physiol. Chem.) A proteid substance present in both the animal and the vegetable kingdom. In the animal kin...