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Case
·vi To propose hypothetical cases. II. Case ·noun Chance; accident; hap; opportunity. III. Case ·v...

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case
A house; perhaps from the Italian CASA. In the canting lingo it meant store or ware house, as well a...

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case
The outside planking of the ship. ...

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System
·noun The collection of staves which form a full score. ·see <<Score>>, ·noun. II. System ·noun Reg...

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system
The method of disposing the correlative parts of a fortification, proposed variously by many eminent...

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Case knife
·- A knife carried in a sheath or case. II. Case knife ·- A large table knife; — so called from be...

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Case shot
·- A collection of small projectiles, inclosed in a case or canister. ...

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Case-bay
·noun The space between two principals or girders. II. Case-bay ·noun One of the joists framed betw...

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Fly-case
·noun The covering of an insect, ·esp. the elytra of beetles. ...

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Lower-case
·adj Pertaining to, or kept in, the lower case; — used to denote the small letters, in distinction ...

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case vrow
A prostitute attached to a particular bawdy house. ...

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soul case
The body. He made a hole in his soul case; he wounded him. ...

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smear-case
(Dutch, Smeer-kaas.) A preparation of milk made to be spread on bread, whence its name; otherwise ca...

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case-book
A register or journal in which the surgeon records the cases of all the sick and wounded, who are pl...

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rudder-case
The same as rudder-trunk (which see). ...

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Ardois system
·add. ·- A widely used system of electric night signals in which a series of double electric lamps (...

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Autokinetic system
·add. ·- In fire-alarm telegraphy, a system so arranged that when one alarm is being transmitted, no...

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Automixte system
·add. ·- A system (devised by Henri Pieper, a Belgian) of driving automobiles employing a gasoline e...

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Bertillon system
·add. ·- A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropomet...

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Block system
·add. ·- A system by which the track is divided into short sections, as of three or four miles, and ...

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Cascade system
·add. ·- A system or method of connecting and operating two induction motors so that the primary cir...

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Chautauqua system
(of education) ·add. ·- The system of home study established in connection with the summer schools a...

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Conduit system
·add. ·- A system of electric traction, ·esp. for light railways, in which the actuating current pas...

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Continental system
·add. ·- The system of commercial blockade aiming to exclude England from commerce with the Continen...

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Contract system
·add. ·- The sweating system. II. Contract system ·add. ·- The system of employing convicts by sell...

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Crofton system
·add. ·- A system of prison discipline employing for consecutive periods cellular confinement, assoc...

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Delsarte system
·add. ·- A system of calisthenics patterned on the theories of Fran/ois Delsarte (1811 - 71), a Fren...

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Ganz system
·add. ·- A haulage system for canal boats, in which an electric locomotive running on a monorail has...

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Marconi system
·add. ·- A system or wireless telegraphy developed by G. Marconi, an Italian physicist, in which Her...

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Metric system
·- ·see <<Metric>>, ·adj. ...

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Tandem system
·add. ·- = Cascade system. ...

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Torrens system
·add. ·- A system of registration of titles to land (as distinct from registration of deeds) introdu...

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graham system
A system of dietetics recommended by Sylvester Graham, a lecturer of some celebrity on temperance an...

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binary system
When two stars forming a double-star are found to revolve about each other. ...

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copernican system
The Pythagorean system of the universe, revived by Copernicus in the sixteenth century, and now conf...

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solar system
The sun, planets, and comets, which are assumed to form a system, independent of the surrounding fix...

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ternary system
Three stars in close proximity, and found to be in physical connection, as, for instance, ζ Cancri. ...

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warehousing system
The use of bonding places under charge of officers of the customs, in which goods may be deposited, ...

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case-shot, common
Called also canister-shot. Adapted for close quarters if the enemy be uncovered. It consists of a nu...

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spherical case-shot
See shrapnel shell. ...

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Third-rail system
·add. ·- A system in which a third rail is used for carrying the current for operating the motors, t...

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Bell system of control
·add. ·- ·see <<Cloche>>. ...

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system of the universe
See copernican system. ...

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Three-torque system of control
·add. ·- Any system of rudders by which the pilot can exert a turning moment about each of the three...

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