among grammarians, implies the different inflexions or terminations of nouns, serving to express the different relations they bear to each other, and to the things they represent.

Case, among printers, denotes a sloping frame, divided into several compartments, each containing a number of types or letters of the same kind. See PRINTING.

Case of crown glass contains usually twenty-four tables, each table being nearly circular, and about three feet six inches diameter.

Case of Newcastle glass contains thirty-five tables; of Normandy glass twenty-five.