noun

• (now rare) A given condition or state.
  "Thus vvhilſt he hopt he hild her leaſt, ſo altereth the cace / VVith ſuch as ſhe, Ah ſuch it is to build on ſuch a face."
• (academia) An instance or event as a topic of study.
  "The teaching consists of theory lessons and case studies."
• (law) A legal proceeding; a lawsuit or prosecution.
  "“Two or three months more went by ; the public were eagerly awaiting the arrival of this semi-exotic claimant to an English peerage, and sensations, surpassing those of the Tichbourne case, were looked forward to with palpitating interest. […]”"
• (grammar) A specific inflection of a word (particularly a noun, pronoun, or adjective) depending on its function in the sentence.
  "The accusative case most commonly indicates a direct object."

verb

• (obsolete, intransitive) To propose hypothetical cases.
  "Casing upon the Matter."

noun

• (printing, historical) A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type, traditionally arranged in sets of two, the "upper case" (containing capitals, small capitals, accented) and "lower case" (small letters, figures, punctuation marks, quadrats, and spaces).
• (typography, by extension) The nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case) or “small” (lower case) letter.
• (poker slang) Four of a kind.
• (US) A unit of liquid measure used to measure sales in the beverage industry, equivalent to 192 fluid ounces.

adj

• (poker slang) The last remaining card of a particular rank.
  "He drew the case eight!"