Cast() 3d pres. of Cast, for Casteth.
Cast(imp. & p. p.) of Cast
Cast(n.) The act of casting or throwing; a throw.
Cast(n.) The thing thrown.
Cast(n.) The distance to which a thing is or can be thrown.
Cast(n.) A throw of dice; hence, a chance or venture.
Cast(n.) 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.
Cast(n.) The act of casting in a mold.
Cast(n.) An impression or mold, taken from a thing or person; amold; a pattern.
Cast(n.) 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.
Cast(n.) Form; appearence; mien; air; style; as, a peculiar cast of countenance.
Cast(n.) A tendency to any color; a tinge; a shade.
Cast(n.) A chance, opportunity, privilege, or advantage; specifically, an opportunity of riding; a lift.
Cast(n.) The assignment of parts in a play to the actors.
Cast(n.) A flight or a couple or set of hawks let go at one time from the hand.
Cast(n.) A stoke, touch, or trick.
Cast(n.) A motion or turn, as of the eye; direction; look; glance; squint.
Cast(n.) A tube or funnel for conveying metal into a mold.
Cast(n.) Four; that is, as many as are thrown into a vessel at once in counting herrings, etc; a warp.
Cast(n.) Contrivance; plot, design.
Cast(v. i.) To throw, as a line in angling, esp, with a fly hook.
Cast(v. i.) To turn the head of a vessel around from the wind in getting under weigh.
Cast(v. i.) To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan; as, to cast about for reasons.
Cast(v. i.) To calculate; to compute.
Cast(v. i.) To receive form or shape in a mold.
Cast(v. i.) To warp; to become twisted out of shape.
Cast(v. i.) To vomit.
Cast(v. t.) To send or drive by force; to throw; to fling; to hurl; to impel.
Cast(v. t.) To direct or turn, as the eyes.
Cast(v. t.) To drop; to deposit; as, to cast a ballot.
Cast(v. t.) To throw down, as in wrestling.
Cast(v. t.) To throw up, as a mound, or rampart.
Cast(v. t.) To throw off; to eject; to shed; to lose.
Cast(v. t.) To bring forth prematurely; to slink.
Cast(v. t.) To throw out or emit; to exhale.
Cast(v. t.) To cause to fall; to shed; to reflect; to throw; as, to cast a ray upon a screen; to cast light upon a subject.
Cast(v. t.) To impose; to bestow; to rest.
Cast(v. t.) To dismiss; to discard; to cashier.
Cast(v. t.) To compute; to reckon; to calculate; as, to cast a horoscope.
Cast(v. t.) To contrive; to plan.
Cast(v. t.) To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict; as, to be cast in damages.
Cast(v. t.) To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide; as, a casting voice.
Cast(v. t.) 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.
Cast(v. t.) To stereotype or electrotype.
Cast(v. t.) To fix, distribute, or allot, as the parts of a play among actors; also to assign (an actor) for a part.
Caste(n.) One of the hereditary classes into which the Hindoos are divided according to the laws of Brahmanism.
Caste(n.) A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly hold intercourse among themselves.
Casting(n.) The act of one who casts or throws, as in fishing.
Casting(n.) The act or process of making casts or impressions, or of shaping metal or plaster in a mold; the act or the process of pouring molten metal into a mold.
Casting(n.) That which is cast in a mold; esp. the mass of metal so cast; as, a casting in iron; bronze casting.
Casting(n.) The warping of a board.
Casting(n.) The act of casting off, or that which is cast off, as skin, feathers, excrement, etc.
Casting(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cast
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