Defn: A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type.
Note: Cases for type are usually arranged in sets of two, called respectively the upper and the lower case. The upper case contains capitals, small capitals, accented; the lower case contains the small letters, figures, marks of punctuation, quadrats, and spaces.
4. An inclosing frame; a casing; as, a door case; a window case.
5. (Mining)
Defn: A small fissure which admits water to the workings. Knight.
CASE
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 nights in the saddle. Prescott.
2. To strip the skin from; as, to case a box. [Obs.]
CASE
Case, n. Etym: [F. cas, fr. L. casus, fr. cadere to fall, to happen.
Cf. Chance.]
1. Chance; accident; hap; opportunity. [Obs.] By aventure, or sort, or cas. Chaucer.