| • | of Cast |
| • | To send or drive by force; to throw; to fling; to hurl; to impel. |
| • | To direct or turn, as the eyes. |
| • | To drop; to deposit; as, to cast a ballot. |
| • | To throw down, as in wrestling. |
| • | To throw up, as a mound, or rampart. |
| • | To throw off; to eject; to shed; to lose. |
| • | To bring forth prematurely; to slink. |
| • | To throw out or emit; to exhale. |
| • | To cause to fall; to shed; to reflect; to throw; as, to cast a ray upon a screen; to cast light upon a subject. |
| • | To impose; to bestow; to rest. |
| • | To dismiss; to discard; to cashier. |
| • | To compute; to reckon; to calculate; as, to cast a horoscope. |
| • | To contrive; to plan. |
| • | To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict; as, to be cast in damages. |
| • | To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide; as, a casting voice. |
| • | 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. |
| • | To stereotype or electrotype. |
| • | To fix, distribute, or allot, as the parts of a play among actors; also to assign (an actor) for a part. |
| • | To throw, as a line in angling, esp, with a fly hook. |
| • | To turn the head of a vessel around from the wind in getting under weigh. |
| • | To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan; as, to cast about for reasons. |
| • | To calculate; to compute. |
| • | To receive form or shape in a mold. |
| • | To warp; to become twisted out of shape. |
| • | To vomit. |
| • | 3d pres. of Cast, for Casteth. |
| • | The act of casting or throwing; a throw. |
| • | The thing thrown. |
| • | The distance to which a thing is or can be thrown. |
| • | A throw of dice; hence, a chance or venture. |
| • | 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. |
| • | The act of casting in a mold. |
| • | An impression or mold, taken from a thing or person; amold; a pattern. |
| • | 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. |
| • | Form; appearence; mien; air; style; as, a peculiar cast of countenance. |
| • | A tendency to any color; a tinge; a shade. |
| • | A chance, opportunity, privilege, or advantage; specifically, an opportunity of riding; a lift. |
| • | The assignment of parts in a play to the actors. |
| • | A flight or a couple or set of hawks let go at one time from the hand. |
| • | A stoke, touch, or trick. |
| • | A motion or turn, as of the eye; direction; look; glance; squint. |
| • | A tube or funnel for conveying metal into a mold. |
| • | Four; that is, as many as are thrown into a vessel at once in counting herrings, etc; a warp. |
| • | Contrivance; plot, design. |
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