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Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1683 a type case containing capitals and usually small capitals, fractions, symbols, and accents

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Upper Up"per, a.; comp. of Up. Being further up, literally or figuratively; higher in place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature. The upper hand, the superiority; the advantage. See To have the upper hand, under Hand. --Jowett (Thucyd.). Upper Bench (Eng. Hist.), the name of the highest court of common law (formerly King's Bench) during the Commonwealth. Upper case, the top one of a pair of compositor's cases. See the Note under 1st Case, n., 3. Upper covert (Zo["o]l.), one of the coverts situated above the bases of the tail quills. Upper deck (Naut.), the topmost deck of any vessel; the spar deck. Upper leather, the leather for the vamps and quarters of shoes. Upper strake (Naut.), the strake next to the deck, usually of hard wood, and heavier than the other strakes. Upper ten thousand, or (abbreviated) Upper ten, the ten thousand, more or less, who are highest in position or wealth; the upper class; the aristocracy. [Colloq.] Upper topsail (Naut.), the upper half of a double topsail. Upper works (Naut.), all those parts of the hull of a vessel that are properly above water. Upper world. (a) The atmosphere. (b) Heaven. (c) This world; the earth; -- in distinction from the underworld.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Case Case (k[=a]s), n. [OF. casse, F. caisse (cf. It. cassa), fr. L. capsa chest, box, case, fr. capere to take, hold. See Capacious, and cf. 4th Chase, Cash, Enchase, 3d Sash.] 1. A box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridge; a case (cover) for a book. 2. A box and its contents; the quantity contained in a box; as, a case of goods; a case of instruments. 3. (Print.) A shallow tray divided into compartments or ``boxes'' for holding type. Note: Cases for type are usually arranged in sets of two, called respectively the upper and the lower case. The upper case contains capitals, small capitals, accented and marked letters, fractions, and marks of reference: the lower case contains the small letters, figures, marks of punctuation, quadrats, and spaces. 4. An inclosing frame; a casing; as, a door case; a window case. 5. (Mining) A small fissure which admits water to the workings. --Knight.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Upper case letters are capital letters. Most schools teach children lower case letters first, and upper case letters later. ? lower case ADJ: usu ADJ n • Upper case is also a noun. I'm wondering if 'per capita' ought to have upper case, or should it be lower case? ? lower case

Moby Thesaurus

abecedarian, allographic, alphabetic, ascender, back, bastard type, beard, belly, bevel, black letter, blackface, body, bold-faced, boldface, cap, capital, case, chromotypic, chromotypographic, counter, descender, em, en, face, fat-faced type, feet, font, full-faced, graphemic, groove, ideographic, italic, letter, lettered, lexigraphic, ligature, lightface, literal, logogrammatic, logographic, logotype, lower case, lower-case, majuscule, minuscular, minuscule, nick, phototypic, pi, pica, pictographic, point, print, roman, sans serif, script, shank, shoulder, small cap, small capital, stamp, stem, stereotypic, transliterated, type, type body, type class, type lice, typecase, typeface, typefounders, typefoundry, typographic, uncial