cass

See also: Cass, CASS, and Cass.

English

Etymology 1

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)

(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?)

Etymology 2

Noun

cass

(computing, dated) Abbreviation of cassette.
- 1985, Stephen Doyle, GCSE Computer Studies for You (page 214)
  STOCK CONTROL / CASS / DATASOFT / 12.81
- 1988, PC Mag (volume 7, number 7, page 62)
  Radio Shaft color computer w/printer & cass. drive, several programs, $250.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

ASCs, CSAs, SACs, Sacs, sacs

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish cos.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kaːs/

Noun

cass f (genitive singular coshey, plural cassyn)

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

Derived terms

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cass	chass	gass
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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