cass

See also: Cass, CASS, and Cass.

English

Etymology

From French casser, from Late Latin cassō, from Latin cassus (“empty, hollow”), and perhaps influenced by quassō (“to shake, shatter”).

Verb

cass (third-person singular simple present casses, present participle cassing, simple past and past participle cassed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To render useless or void; to annul; to reject; to send away.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Walter Raleigh to this entry?)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cass in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish cos.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaːs/

Noun

cass f (genitive singular coshey, plural cassyn)

  1. foot, leg
    Ta cass echey 'syn oaie. ― He has one foot in the grave.

Derived terms

Mutation

Manx mutation
RadicalLenitionEclipsis
casschassgass
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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