The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cast \Cast\ (k[.a]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.]
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To send or drive by force; to throw; to fling; to hurl; to impel.
Uzziah prepared . . . slings to cast stones.
--2 Chron. xxvi. 14.Cast thy garment about thee, and follow me.
--Acts. xii. 8.We must be cast upon a certain island.
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To direct or turn, as the eyes.
How earnestly he cast his eyes upon me!
--Shak. To drop; to deposit; as, to cast a ballot.
To throw down, as in wrestling.
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To throw up, as a mound, or rampart.
Thine enemies shall cast a trench [bank] about thee.
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To throw off; to eject; to shed; to lose.
His filth within being cast.
--Shak.Neither shall your vine cast her fruit.
--Mal. iii. 11The creatures that cast the skin are the snake, the viper, etc.
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To bring forth prematurely; to slink.
Thy she-goats have not cast their young.
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8. To throw out or emit; to exhale. [Obs.]
This . . . casts a sulphureous smell.
--Woodward. 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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To impose; to bestow; to rest.
The government I cast upon my brother.
--Shak.Cast thy burden upon the Lord.
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To dismiss; to discard; to cashier. [Obs.]
The state can not with safety cast him.
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To compute; to reckon; to calculate; as, to cast a horoscope. ``Let it be cast and paid.''
--Shak.You cast the event of war, my noble lord.
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To contrive; to plan. [Archaic]
The cloister . . . had, I doubt not, been cast for [an orange-house].
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To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict; as, to be cast in damages.
She was cast to be hanged.
--Jeffrey.Were the case referred to any competent judge, they would inevitably be cast.
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To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide; as, a casting voice.
How much interest casts the balance in cases dubious!
--South. 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.
(Print.) To stereotype or electrotype.
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To fix, distribute, or allot, as the parts of a play among actors; also to assign (an actor) for a part. Our parts in the other world will be new cast. --Addison. 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.
To throw away; to lavish; to waste. ``Cast away a life''
--Addison.To reject; to let perish. ``Cast away his people.''
--Rom. xi. 1. ``Cast one away.''
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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.
To discard or reject; to drive away; to put off; to free one's self from.
(Hunting) To leave behind, as dogs; also, to set loose, or free, as dogs.
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(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.
To throw up; to raise.
To compute; to reckon, as the cost.
To vomit.
To twit with; to throw in one's teeth.
Usage examples of "to cast a".
Then her body crashed against his shoulder as he stopped to cast a stony glower at Cleo.
Ansset sipped the wine, and dipped a finger in it to cast a drop into the air in the graceful gesture of court.
Errtu towered over her, menacing her, preventing her from holding any concentration that she would need to cast a spell, or even to retrieve her weapon.
But then something quite invisible yet strong caused me to cast a glance at Avicus and to see that he was staring at this splendid female blood drinker as though Cupid had just sent an arrow right into his heart.
The temptation to cast a spell and force her way was very strong, but she could hear a warning voice in her ear, that calm, gentle voice that Lessis always used.
From the moment they had entered Nimbus, she had been using her limited knowledge of Osoru to cast a Net of Cognition.
The old woman drew back as if to cast a spell, or maybe a rock, at me.
The assembly of Seine-et-Marne applauds the proposal to cast a cannon which might contain the head of Louis XVI.
He's always forgetting his name or where his hat iswhen it's right on his head or forgetting how to cast a fireballspell and so I guess he just miscalculated.
She could hardly hope to cast a spell right underneath a magelordeven a magelord in the throes of passionwithout being heard.
Ulin turned to cast a wary glance at the group of Knights of Takhisis.
Reflections from the hearth continued to cast a red hue into Geraden’.
Reflections from the hearth continued to cast a red hue into Geraden's face.
The castle still stood atop the cliffs, a looming black presence thatseemed to cast a pall over the area.