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Cast (k&adot_;st), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cast; p. pr. & vb. n. Casting.] [Cf. Dan. kaste, Icel. & Sw. kasta; perh. akin to L. gerere to bear, carry. E. jest.] 1. To send or drive by force; to throw; to fling; to hurl; to impel.
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Uzziah prepared . . . slings to cast stones.
2 Chron. xxvi. 14.
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Cast thy garment about thee, and follow me.
Acts. xii. 8.
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We must be cast upon a certain island.
Acts. xxvii. 26.
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2. To direct or turn, as the eyes.
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How earnestly he cast his eyes upon me!
Shak.
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3. To drop; to deposit; as, to cast a ballot.
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4. To throw down, as in wrestling. Shak.
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5. To throw up, as a mound, or rampart.
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Thine enemies shall cast a trench [bank] about thee.
Luke xix. 48.
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6. To throw off; to eject; to shed; to lose.
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His filth within being cast.
Shak.
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Neither shall your vine cast her fruit.
Mal. iii. 11
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The creatures that cast the skin are the snake, the viper, etc.
Bacon.
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7. To bring forth prematurely; to slink.
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Thy she-goats have not cast their young.
Gen. xxi. 38.
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8. To throw out or emit; to exhale. [Obs.]
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This . . . casts a sulphureous smell.
Woodward.
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9. To cause to fall; to shed; to reflect; to throw; as, to cast a ray upon a screen; to cast light upon a subject.
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10. To impose; to bestow; to rest.
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The government I cast upon my brother.
Shak.
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Cast thy burden upon the Lord.
Ps. iv. 22.
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11. To dismiss; to discard; to cashier. [Obs.]
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The state can not with safety cast him.
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12. To compute; to reckon; to calculate; as, to cast a horoscope. “Let it be cast and paid.” Shak.
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You cast the event of war, my noble lord.
Shak.
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13. To contrive; to plan. [Archaic]
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The cloister . . . had, I doubt not, been cast for [an orange-house].
Sir W. Temple.
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14. To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict; as, to be cast in damages.
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She was cast to be hanged.
Jeffrey.
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Were the case referred to any competent judge, they would inevitably be cast.
Dr. H. More.
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15. To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide; as, a casting voice.
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How much interest casts the balance in cases dubious!
South.
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16. To form into a particular shape, by pouring liquid metal or other material into a mold; to fashion; to found; as, to cast bells, stoves, bullets.
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17. (Print.) To stereotype or electrotype.
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18. To fix, distribute, or allot, as the parts of a play among actors; also to assign (an actor) for a part.
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Our parts in the other world will be new cast.
Addison.
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To cast anchor (Naut.) See under Anchor. -- To cast a horoscope, to calculate it. -- To cast a horse, sheep, or other animal, to throw with the feet upwards, in such a manner as to prevent its rising again. -- To cast a shoe, to throw off or lose a shoe, said of a horse or ox. -- To cast aside, to throw or push aside; to neglect; to reject as useless or inconvenient. -- To cast away. (a) To throw away; to lavish; to waste. “Cast away a life” Addison. (b) To reject; to let perish. “Cast away his people.” Rom. xi. 1. “Cast one away.” Shak. (c) To wreck. “Cast away and sunk.” Shak. -- To cast by, to reject; to dismiss or discard; to throw away. -- To cast down, to throw down; to destroy; to deject or depress, as the mind. “Why art thou cast down. O my soul?” Ps. xiii. 5. -- To cast forth, to throw out, or eject, as from an inclosed place; to emit; to send out. -- To cast in one's lot with, to share the fortunes of. -- To cast in one's teeth, to upbraid or abuse one for; to twin. -- To cast lots. See under Lot. -- To cast off. (a) To discard or reject; to drive away; to put off; to free one's self from. (b) (Hunting) To leave behind, as dogs; also, to set loose, or free, as dogs. Crabb. (c) (Naut.) To untie, throw off, or let go, as a rope. -- To cast off copy, (Print.), to estimate how much printed matter a given amount of copy will make, or how large the page must be in order that the copy may make a given number of pages. -- To cast one's self on or To cast one's self upon to yield or submit one's self unreservedly to, as to the mercy of another. -- To cast out, to throw out; to eject, as from a house; to cast forth; to expel; to utter. -- To cast the lead (Naut.), to sound by dropping the lead to the bottom. -- To cast the water (Med.), to examine the urine for signs of disease. [Obs.]. -- To cast up. (a) To throw up; to raise. (b) To compute; to reckon, as the cost. (c) To vomit. (d) To twit with; to throw in one's teeth.
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Cast (k&adot_;st), v. i. 1. To throw, as a line in angling, esp, with a fly hook.
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2. (Naut.) To turn the head of a vessel around from the wind in getting under weigh.
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Weigh anchor, cast to starboard.
Totten.
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3. To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan; as, to cast about for reasons.
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She . . . cast in her mind what manner of salution this should be.
Luke. i. 29.
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4. To calculate; to compute. [R.]
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Who would cast and balance at a desk.
Tennyson.
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5. To receive form or shape in a mold.
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It will not run thin, so as to cast and mold.
Woodward.
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6. To warp; to become twisted out of shape.
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Stuff is said to cast or warp when . . . it alters its flatness or straightness.
Moxon.
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7. To vomit.
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These verses . . . make me ready to cast.
B. Jonson.
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Cast, 3d pers. pres. of Cast, for Casteth. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Cast, n. [Cf. Icel., Dan., & Sw. kast.] 1. The act of casting or throwing; a throw.
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2. The thing thrown.
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A cast of dreadful dust.
Dryden.
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3. The distance to which a thing is or can be thrown. “About a stone's cast.” Luke xxii. 41.
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4. A throw of dice; hence, a chance or venture.
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An even cast whether the army should march this way or that way.
Sowth.
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I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die.
Shak.
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5. That which is throw out or off, shed, or ejected; as, the skin of an insect, the refuse from a hawk's stomach, the excrement of a earthworm.
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6. The act of casting in a mold.
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And why such daily cast of brazen cannon.
Shak.
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7. An impression or mold, taken from a thing or person; amold; a pattern.
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8. That which is formed in a mild; esp. a reproduction or copy, as of a work of art, in bronze or plaster, etc.; a casting.
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9. Form; appearence; mien; air; style; as, a peculiar cast of countenance. “A neat cast of verse.” Pope.
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An heroic poem, but in another cast and figure.
Prior.
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And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought.
Shak.
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10. A tendency to any color; a tinge; a shade.
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Gray with a cast of green.
Woodward.
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11. A chance, opportunity, privilege, or advantage; specifically, an opportunity of riding; a lift. [Scotch]
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We bargained with the driver to give us a cast to the next stage.
Smollett.
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If we had the cast o' a cart to bring it.
Sir W. Scott.
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12. The assignment of parts in a play to the actors.
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13. (Falconary) A flight or a couple or set of hawks let go at one time from the hand. Grabb.
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As when a cast of falcons make their flight.
Spenser.
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14. A stoke, touch, or trick. [Obs.]
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This was a cast of Wood's politics; for his information was wholly false.
Swift.
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15. A motion or turn, as of the eye; direction; look; glance; squint.
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The cast of the eye is a gesture of aversion.
Bacon.
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And let you see with one cast of an eye.
Addison.
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This freakish, elvish cast came into the child's eye.
Hawthorne.
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16. A tube or funnel for conveying metal into a mold.
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17. Four; that is, as many as are thrown into a vessel at once in counting herrings, etc; a warp.
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18. Contrivance; plot, design. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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A cast of the eye, a slight squint or strabismus. -- Renal cast (Med.), microscopic bodies found in the urine of persons affected with disease of the kidneys; -- so called because they are formed of matter deposited in, and preserving the outline of, the renal tubes. -- The last cast, the last throw of the dice or last effort, on which every thing is ventured; the last chance.
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