cast 
Hi' is the Faustus, 
That casteth figures and can conjure. 
/,'. .liiiixiiii, Alchemist, iv. 4. 
You cast the event of war, my noble lord, 
And summ'd the account of chance. 
Shak., 2 Hen. IV., i. 1. 
The mariner was left to creep along the coast, while the 
astronomer via outing nativities. 
KivfHt, Orations, I. 248. 
16. To bring forth abortively. 
Thv ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young. 
Gen. X.VM. :!h. 
17. To found; form into a particular shape or 
object, as liquid metal, by pouring into a mold. 
Whom I ve power to melt, 
And cast in liny mould. Ii. Jiinxim, Catiline, i. 1. 
18. To form by founding; make by pouring 
molten matter into a mold. 
Thou shall cast four rings of gold for it. Ex. xxv. 12. 
19. In falconry, to place (a hawk) upon his 
perch. 20. To winnow (grain) by throwing 
in the air, or from one side of a barn or thresh- 
ing-floor to the other TO be cast down, to be de- 
pressed "i- dejeeteil. 
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? Pa. xlii. 5. 
Tell your master not to be cunt ilmrn by this. 
Sheridan, The Rivals, ii. -2. 
To cast a ballot. See ballot. To cast a colt's tooth. 
See coll. TO cast a nativity. See nativity. To cast 
anchor to moor a vessel by letting the anchor or Inchon 
drop, see anchuri.To cast a point of traverse, in 
iiiiri'iiiiiiin. to prick down on a chart the point of the com- 
pass any land bears from you. E. Phillips, 1706. To cast 
aside, to dismiss or reject as useless or inconvenient. 
This poor gown I will not cast atide 
Until himself arise a living man. 
Ami hid me cast it. Tennyson, Geraint. 
To cast away, (a) To reject. Lev. xxvi. 44. (6) To 
throw away ; lavish or waste by profusion ; turn to no 
use : as, to cant away life ; to cast away a golden oppor- 
tunity. 
She has cast aicay herself, it is to be fear'd, 
Against her uncle's will, nay, any consent, 
But out of a mere neglect, and spite to herself, 
Married suddenly without any advice. 
Beau, and Fl., Wit at Several Weapons, v. 2. 
(c) To wreck : as, the ship was cast away on the coast of 
Africa. 
Cast away, and sunk, on Goodwin Sands. 
Shak., K. John, v. 5. 
The last of Nouember, saith May, we departed from La- 
guna in Hispaniola, and the seueuteenth of Decemberfol- 
lowing, we were cant away vpon the North-west of the Ber- 
mudas. Quoted in Capt. John Smith, True Travels, II. 118. 
To cast behind the back. See back*. To cast by, to 
reject ; fling or throw by. To cast forth, to throw out or 
reject, as from an inclosed place or confined space ; emit 
or send out. 
He shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Leb- 
anon. Hos. xiv. 5. 
To cast In, to throw into the bargain. 
Such an omniscient church we wish indeed ; 
'Twere worth both Testaments, cast in the creed. 
Dryden, Religio Laici. 
To cast In one's lot With, to share the fate or fortune 
of. To cast In the teeth Of, to upbraid with ; charge 
or twit with. To cast lots. See lot. To cast off. (a) 
To discard or reject ; drive away. 
The prince will, in the perfectness of time, 
Cast o/his followers. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., Iv. 4. 
He may cast you off, and with you his life. 
Beau, and Fl. , Laws of Candy, ii. 1. 
(6) Naut., to unloose or let go : as, to cast off a vessel in 
tow. (c) In hunting, to leave behind, as dogs ; set loose 
or free. 
Away he scours, . . . casts off the dogs, and gains a wood. 
Sir R. L' Estrange. 
His falconer cast off one falcon after the heron, and the 
earl another. Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 87. 
(d) In knitting, to finish (the work) at any part by work- 
ing off the stitches, so that it remains firm and permanent. 
(e) In printing, to compute the space required for each 
column or division of, as a table, a piece of music, or the 
like, so that the matter furnished may properly fit the 
space at command. To cast Off copy, In printing, to 
compute the number of words in written copy, in order 
to find the space, or the number of pages, which the mat- 
ter will fill when in type. To cast on. (a) To refer or 
resign to. South, (b) In knitting, to begin (the work) by 
putting the yarn, cotton, or the like upon the needles in 
loops or stitches. To cast out. (a) To reject or turn out. 
Thy brat hath been cast out, . . . 
No father owning it. Shot., W. T., iii. 2. 
(6) To speak or give vent to. Addison. To cast the 
balance. See balance. To cast the cavel or JteveL 
See cavel. To cast the draperies, in the fine arts, to 
dispose the folds of the garments with which the figures 
in a picture are clothed ; dispose the main lines of a pic- 
ture generally. To cast the fly, to angle with rod and 
artificial lure, in distinction from fishing with bait or a 
hand-line. To cast the lead, to heave the lead. See 
lead. To cast up. (a) To compute ; reckon ; calculate. 
Casting up the cost beforehand. Dryden. 
The Mindanaians are no good Accomptants ; therefore 
the Chinese that live here, do cast up their Accompts for 
them. Dampier, Voyages, I. 360. 
Now casting vp the Store, and finding sufficient till the 
next harvest, the feare of starving was abandoned. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith, True Travels, I. 222. 
(6) To eject ; vomit. 
Their villany goes against my weak stomach, and there- 
fore I must cast it up. Shak., Hen. V., iii. 2. 
847 
cast 
Cast up the poison that infects thy mind. Dryden. cast 1 (kast), />. <i. [Pp. of can ft, c.] ^1. Thrown 
(c) To twit or upbraid with ; recall to one s notice for the 
purpose of annoying : with to. 
Lady W.'s maid is always easting up to me how happy 
her lord and ladyship is. Lever. 
(d) To raise ; throw up. 
Throws down one mountain to cast up a higher. 
MnL, I'eiides, I. 4. 
Buried him in the ground, and cast i>i> an high hillouer 
him. Purchan, Pilgrimage, p. 87. 
TO Cast upon, to refer to. 
If things were cast upon this issue, that God should 
never prevent sin till man deserved it, the best would sin 
and sin for ever. Xmith. 
To cast (a person's) watert, to examine urine in diagnos- 
ing a disease. 
If thou couldst, doctor, cast 
The water of my land, find her disease. 
.S/i.1*., Macbeth, v. 3. 
= Syn. fling, etc. See hurl. 
II. intrans. If. To throw; shoot. 
At loners, lowpcs, Archers 1 
To cast, draw, and shete, the ditfence to be 
That noil wordly man myght no wyse it take. 
Hum. of Partenay (K. E. 'I'. S.), 1. 1176. 
2f. To throw up ; vomit. 
These verses too, a poison on 'em t I cannot abide them, 
they make me ready to cast. B. Jonton, Poetaster, i. 1. 
3. To turn or revolve something in the mind ; 
ponder; consider; scheme. 
Hast thou cast how to accomplish it? 
Marlowe, Edward II., v. 4. 
The best way to represent to life the manifold ue of 
friendship is to cast and see how many things there are 
which a man cannot do himself. Bacon, Friendship. 
This way and that I cast to save my friends. Pope. 
4. To make calculations ; sum up accounts. 
Oh ! who would cast and balance at a desk ? 
Tennyson, Audley Court. 
5. To warp ; become twisted or distorted. 
Stuff is said to cast or warp when ... It alters its flat- 
ness or straightness. J. Mown, Mechanical Exercises. 
6. To lose color ; fade. [Scotch.] 7. To re- 
ceive form or shape in a mold. 
A mass that is immediately malleable, and will not run 
thin, so as to cast and mould. Woodward, Fossils. 
aside as useless; rejected; cast-off: as, cast 
clothes. 
He hath Iwught a pair of cast lips of Diana. 
Shut., As you Like It, iii. 4. 
You never yet had a meal's meat from my table, 
V'l. as I remember, frnni my wardrobe 
Any cast suit. 
r,iu ". and Fl., Honest Man's Fortune, ii. 8. 
I deny not but that he may deserve for hi pains a cast 
Doublet. Mil/mi, Apolog) -for Smeetymnuus. 
2. Condemned: as, "a cast criminal," youth. 
3f. Cashiered; discarded. 
He's the son 
* Of a poor cast captain, one Octavio. 
!'/ tcher, Spanish Curate, 1. 1. 
4. Faded in color. [Scotch.] 5. Made bv 
founding or casting: as, cast-iron or -steel. 
See cast-iron. 6t. Bank; vile. 
Neuer kyld no Kyng, ne no knight yet, 
That a-eounte<l was kene, but with cast treson. 
Instruction of Troy (K. E. T. S.), 1. 10448. 
cast 1 (kast), n. [< ca*i, v.~\ 1. The act of cast- 
ing. Specifically (o) In fishing: (1) The act of throw- 
ing the line on the water. (2) The act of throwing a net, 
A fisherman stood on the beach, . . . the large square 
net, with its sinkers of lead, in his right hand, ready for a 
cast. B. Taylor, Lands of the Saracen, p. 41. 
(b) In hunting, a search for the scent or trail of game. 
(c) Naut., the act of heaving the lead. 
2. The leader with flies attached, used in an- 
gling. Sportsman's Gazetteer. 3. A throw ; 
the distance to which a thing may be thrown ; 
reach; extent. 
These other com ridinge a softe pase till the! com as 
nygh as the caste of a ston. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 219. 
Frome thens descendynge aboute a stones caste, we come 
to a place where our Sauyour Criste lefte Peter, James, 
and John. Sir R. Guylforde, Pylgrymage, p. 32. 
Specifically 4. A throw of dice; hence, a 
state of chance or hazard. 
I have set my life upon a cast, 
And I will stand the hazard of the die. 
Shak., Rich. III..T. 4. 
If thou canst not fling what thou wouldst, play thy east 
as well as thou canst. Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 365. 
In the last war, has It not sometimes been an even cast 
whether the army should march this way or that way? 
South. 
8. Naut. : (a) To fall off or incline, so as to 
bring the side to the wind : applied particularly 
to a ship riding with her head to the wind 
when her anchor is first loosened in getting un- 5f. Occasion ; opport 
der way. (6) To tack ; put about ; wear ship. 
I cast to seaward again to come with the island in the 
morning betimes. 
Roger Bodenham, In Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 35. 
9. In hunting, to search for the scent or trail of 
The end whereof lie keepe untill another cast. 
Spenser, F. Q., VI. viii. 61. 
6f. A contrivance ; plot ; design. 
The derke tresoun and the castes olde. 
Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 1610. 
Hadde the! knowe the kast of the Kyng stern, 
They had kept well his cumme with carefull dintes. 
- Alutaunder of Macedoine (E. E. T. S.), 1. 146. 
always being inclined to cast forwards, instinctively ap- 
pearing to be aware that the fox makes his point to some 7f. A stroke ; a touch ; a trick. 
game. 
In his work the foxhound is peculiar for dash, and for 
covert different from that in which he was found. 
Dogs of Great Britain and America, p. 62. 
10. Of bees, to swarm. [Scotch.] 11. Of 
the sky, to clear up. [Scotch.] To cast about. 
(a) Naut., to tack ; put about ; wear ship. 
My pilot, having a son in one of those small vessels, 
entreated me to cast about towards them. 
Roger Bodenham, In Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 35. 
(6) In hunting, to go about in different directions in order 
to discover a lost scent. 
But not a sign of them [the hares In the game of hare- 
and-hound] appears, so now . . . there is nothing for it 
but to cast about for the scent. 
T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, i. 7. 
(c) To consider ; search in the mind for some contrivance 
by which to accomplish one's end ; scheme. 
To cast about how to perform or obtain. Bacon. 
Let 's cast about a little, and consider. 
Fletcher, Spanish Curate, ii. 1. 
Contrive and cast about how to bring such events to 
pass. Bentley. 
I ... began to cast about, with my usual care and anx- 
iety, for the means of obtaining feasible and safe meth- 
ods of repeating the famous journey to Palmyra. 
Bruce, Source of the Nile, Int., p. Ii. 
To cast back, (a) To throw the memory back ; refer to 
something past. 
You cast back for hundreds of years, and rake up every 
bit of pleasure I ever had in my life. Mrs. Riddell. 
(b) To return toward some ancestral type or character; 
show resemblance to a remote ancestor. To cast be- 
yond the moon, to indulge in wild conjectures ; conjec- 
ture. 
Bellaria, . . . maruailing at such vnaccustomed frownes, 
began to cast beyond the moone, and to enter into a 1000 
sundry thoughts, which way she should offend her hus- 
band. Greene, Pandosto, or the Triumph of Time, 1588. 
To cast Off. (a) To loosen a boat from its connection 
with a pier, ship, or the like, and start it toward another 
It hath been the cast of all traitors to pretend nothing 
against the king's person. 
Latimer, 4th Serm. bef. Edw. VI., 1549. 
Another cast of their politicks was that of endeavouring 
to impeach an innocent lady. Swift. 
8. Motion or turn (of the eye); direction, look, 
or glance ; hence, a slight squint : as, to have 
a cast in one's eye. 
They ... let you see with one cast of an eye. 
Addiion, Ancient Medals. 
9. A twist or contortion. [Scotch.] 10. 
Bent; tendency. 
There is such a mirthful cast in his behaviour, that he 
is rather beloved than esteemed. Addison. 
11. Manner; outward appearance ; air; mien; 
style. 
New names, new dressings, and the modern cast. 
Sir J. Denham, To Sir R. Fanshaw. 
12. A tinge; a shade or trace; a slight color- 
ing, or a slight degree of a color: as, a cast of 
green. 
The native hue of resolution 
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. 
Shak., Hamlet, Hi. 1. 
There was a soft and pensive grace, 
A cast of thought upon her face. 
That suited well the forehead high, 
The eyelash dark, and downcast eye. 
Scott, Rokeby, iv. 5. 
13. That which is formed by founding; any- 
thing shaped in or as if in a mold while in 
a fluid or plastic state; a casting: often used 
figuratively. 
Something of a neat cast of verse. Pope, Letters. 
Cunning casts in clay. Tennyson, In Memoriam, cxx. 
14. An impression formed in a mold or matrix ; 
place (b) In knitting to slip and bind the last loops from "-" MMW 
the needles, thus releasing the finished work from them; in geol., the impression of an animal ot a 
bind off. To cast on, in knitting, to begin by slipping mer epoch left m soft earth which has become 
the loops or stitches on the needle. To cast out, to s f one as a cast of a man's face taken in plas- 
quarrel; fall out. [Scotch. J To cast up, to turn up or 
Others may be Unionists ... by fits and starts ; . . . 
Unionists when nothing more exciting, or more showy, 
or more profitable, casts up. R. Choate, Addresses, p. 442. 
of a triloWto. 
At Valdivia there is some sandstone with imperfect 
casts of shells, which possibly may belong t 
period. Darmn, Geol. Observations, ii. 414. 
