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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, n. [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.

2. 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.

In any case thou shalt deliver him the
pledge.

Deut. xxiv. 13.

If the case of the man be so with his
wife.

Matt. xix. 10.

And when a lady's in the case

You know all other things give place.

Gay.


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