CASUALTY, noun 1. Accident; that which comes by chance or without design, or without being foreseen; contingency. 2. An accident that produces unnatural death; and by a metonymy, death, or other misfortune, occasioned by an accident. 3. In Scots law, an emolument due from a vassal to his superior, beyond the stated yearly duties, upon certain casual events.
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