अंग्रेजी अंग्रेजी शब्दकोश

One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he does not belong; a vagrant.

The doctrine that all things exist or are controlled by chance.

One who believes in casualism.

Without design; accidentally; fortuitously; by chance; occasionally.

The quality of being casual.

of Casualty

That which comes without design or without being foreseen; contingency.

Numerical loss caused by death, wounds, discharge, or desertion.

Any injury of the body from accident; hence, death, or other misfortune, occasioned by an accident; as, an unhappy casualty.

A genus of leafless trees or shrubs, with drooping branchlets of a rushlike appearance, mostly natives of Australia. Some of them are large, producing hard and heavy timber of excellent quality, called beefwood from its color.

To play the casuist.

One who is skilled in, or given to, casuistry.

Alt. of Casuistieal

Of or pertaining to casuists or casuistry.

Sophistical, equivocal, or false reasoning or teaching in regard to duties, obligations, and morals.

The science or doctrine of dealing with cases of conscience, of resolving questions of right or wrong in conduct, or determining the lawfulness or unlawfulness of what a man may do by rules and principles drawn from the Scriptures, from the laws of society or the church, or from equity and natural reason; the application of general moral rules to particular cases.

An event; an occurrence; an occasion; a combination of circumstances; a case; an act of God. See the Note under Accident.

A strong tackle used to draw an anchor up to the cathead of a ship.

A strong vessel with a narrow stern, projecting quarters, and deep waist. It is employed in the coal and timber trade.

An animal of various species of the genera Felis and Lynx. The domestic cat is Felis domestica. The European wild cat (Felis catus) is much larger than the domestic cat. In the United States the name wild cat is commonly applied to the bay lynx (Lynx rufus) See Wild cat, and Tiger cat.