cascade2 (kaskad)

i.; pret. and pp. cas caded, ppr. cascading. [Appar. a perverted use of cascade1. Cf. E. dial. cast, vomit.] Το vomit. [Colloq.] cascalho (kas-kal'yō), n. [Pg. (= Sp. cascajo ), pebbles, gravel, cascan, cascane (kas-kan', -kān'), n. [F. cas cane.] In fort., a hole or cavity, resembling a well, made near a rampart, from which an underground gallery extends, or which serves case Than he tolde hem alle worde for worde how the cas was be-fallen. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 560. Wisdom behouith to lete go and pa e Which that men mow noght amend in no cas . Rom . of Partenay (E. E. T. 8.), l. 6223. (b) State; condition; state of circumstances. Cum for teth him in his caas , coueiteth not his goodes. Piers Plowman (A), viii. 52. Like Angels life was then mens happy cace . Spenser, F. Q., II. vii. 16. Tib . I come to have thee walk. Ovid. No, good Tibullus, I'm not now in case. B. Jonson, Poetaster, i. 1. They lay, therefore, all day on Saturday, in lamentable case, as before. Bunyan , Pilgrim's Progre , p. 177. 2. A particular determination of events or circumstances; a special state of things coming under a general description or rule. The ceremonies attendant upon death and burial are nearly the same in the cases of men and women. E. W. Lane, Modern Egyptians, II. 286. 3. In med., an instance of disease under or requiring medical treatment, or the series of occurrences or symptoms which characterize it: as, the doctor has many cases of fever in hand; the patient explained his case.-4. A cu ion or decision. its destructive effect. cascara amarga, sagrada. See bark2. cascarilla (kas-ka-ril'ä), n. [= F. cascarille, E. cask1 ), Cascarilla-plant (Croton Eluteria ). C a, male flower; b, female flower; c, fruit. occurs in small thin frag ments and brittle rolls like quills, and is used in medicine for its mild stimulating, tonic properties. Also called Eleuthera or sweetwood bark. cas car ill in, cascarilline (kas-ka-ril'in), n. [