casement

noun

1. A window sash that is hinged on the side.

   “For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, and beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding.”

2. A window having such sashes; a casement window.ᵂᵖ

   “Passing through Tokenhouse Yard, in Lothbury, of a sudden a casement violently opened just over my head, and a woman gave three frightful screeches, and then cried, ‘Oh! death, death, death!’ in a most inimitable tone, and which struck me with horror and a chillness in my very blood.”

   “Some slight noise had awakened Francesca, and opening her casement, she looked through the thick and misty air, and saw him riding slowly over the heath.”

   “The street-lamps always burn; but scarce a casement / In house or palace front from roof to basement / Doth glow or gleam athwart the mirk air cast.”

   “The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.”

3. A casemate. Some writers and readers consider casement a catachresis when used in this sense.

name

1. A surname from Irish.