cast 
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The older English spelling of 
Hence 15. An impression in general; an cast 2 ! (kast), n. 
imparted or derived appearance, character, or caste?. 
characteristic ; stamp. cast. Contracted form of castcth, third person 
Weepest thou to take the cast singular present tense of cast. 
Of those dead lineaments that near thee lie? castaldyt, 
I'enniimn, Sonnets to a Coquette, iii. 
16. One of the worm-like coils of sand pro- 
duced by the lugworm. 17. In founding: (a) 
*"n n:i I . i. ___!.! / l.\ AV.nl1.-mr 
. 
[Also mstahtic (Minsheu), and 
castellar 
II. a. In or pertaining to the state of being 
a castaway; wrecked; ruined: as, a castaway 
ship. 
We . . . only remember, at our castatmy leisure, the 
imprisoned immortal soul. Raleigh, Hist, of World. 
A tube of wax fitted into a mold, (fc) A hollow 
improp. castaldick (Kersey), < ML. *castaldia, cast-by (kast'bi), . A discarded person or 
yastaldia (> It. cnstaldia), the office of a prefect thing; a castaway. [Scotch.] 
Wha could tak interest in sic a cast-by as I am now? 
Scott, Heart of Mid-Lothian, xx. 
, 
O1 . steward, < castaldiis, gastaldus (> It. eastaMo, 
,jial. gastaldo), also gastaMius, castaldio(n-), 
. , 
cylindrical piece of brass or copper, slit in two gastaUio(n-) (> It. castaldione), a prefect, stew- cas t e l t a . A Middle English variant of chaste. 
lengthwise, to form a canal or conduit in a ar( i ; p ro b. < Goth, "gastalds, in comp. striving cas te 2 (kast), n. [Formerly cast, only recently 
mofd for conveying metal, (c) A small brass 
funnel at one end of a mold for casting pipes, 
by means of which the melted metal is poured 
into the mold, (d) The type or plate made 
to obtain or possess (possessing), < gast/tldai _ 
obtain, possess (cf. AS. gcsteala, an abode, 
dwelling), < ga- (see gc-) + *staldan = AS. 
tcaldan, possess.] Stewardship. 
, . 
from melted type-metal by a type-founder or Qastalia (kas-ta'li-a), n. [NL.: see Castalian.'] 
A genus of bivalve mollusks, of the family 
Iridinida', confined to 
stereotyper. (e) The act of founding or mak- 
ing printing-types or electroplates. 18. A 
mass of feathers, fur, bones, or other indigesti- 
ble matters ejected from the stomach by a hawk 
or other bird of prey. Also called casting. 
The coarser parts of the useless matters are probably 
rejected by the mouth, as a hawk or an owl rejects his 
casts. Huxley, Crayfish, p. 67. 
And where the two contrived their daughter's good, 
Lies the hawk's cast, the mole has made his run. 
Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. 
19. An assignment of the parts of a play to the 
several actors; the company of actors to whom 
thlparts of a play are assigned: as, the play Laporte, 1838.- 4. A genus of lepidopterous 
v a ;,vnrhiporl with a verv stronu Crtst 20. An insects. Bmsduval, 18o8. 
cast of hay for the horses. 
I hope she'll be ruled in time, 
as F. caste, < Pg. casta (> Sp. casta), breed, race, 
caste ; first applied to the classes of the Hindus 
by the Portuguese, who were the earliest colo- 
nists in India ; prop. fern, of casto, < L. castus, 
pure, > OF. chaste, E. chaste, q. v.J 1. One of 
the artificial divisions or social classes into 
which the Hindus are rigidly separated accord- 
the fresh waters of n g t o the religious law of Brahmanism, and of 
- 
South America. The 
best-known species is 
C.amb/gua. Thegenus 
was founded by La- 
v j IUIQ _o A 
genus ot chietopodous 
annelids, of the family 
wn ich the privileges or disabilities are trans- 
m itted by inheritance. The principal castes are four 
i n number : 1st, the Brahmans, or the sacerdotal caste ; 2d, 
the Kshatriyas, modern Kajputs, or military caste; 3d, 
the Vaisyas, or husbandmen and merchants, who have now 
in many districts become merged in the second and fourth 
caates . 4^,, the Sudras, or laborers and mechanics. The 
Brahmans are supposed to have sprung from the mouth 
ann, ramans are suppo 
Hfttonida- _ 3 Affenus of Brahma, the Kshatriyas from his arms, the Vaisyas 
from his feet. 
of coleopterous insects. 
arried 
and 
tard. Middleton, Michaelmas Term, ii. 3. 
21 . A couple ; a pair : used especially of hawks. 
It sprung 
From a mere trifle first, a cast of hawks, 
Whose made the swifter flight, whose could mount highest. 
Middleton ami Rowley, Spanish Gypsy, ii. 2. 
;aSTJclllan ^Kas-ta iiaii;, . L\ ** *~" '"'"J . 
longing to Castalia, Gr. Kaora/u'a, a mythical 
fountain of inspiration on Mount Parnassus, 
from his belly and thighs, and the Sudras from his feet. 
The Brahman represents religion; the Kshatriya, war; 
the Vaisya, commerce and wealth ; and the Sudra, labor. 
There are many subdivisions of caste, and although the 
Sudras are degraded far below the Brahmans, Kshatriyas, 
and Vaisyas, there are reckoned thirty-six subdivisions 
lower than the Sudras. Lowest of all are the Pariahs, who 
are supposed to be of no caste, and mere outcasts from 
power of inspiring those who drank them ; per- ^ ~ ^ n of India . llle JOU ,. U1 ao llmuc ui> . 
haps akin to xaftzpof, L. castus, pure : see caste*. \ su |,j u gated aborigines. The Sanskrit name for caste is 
Pertaining to Castalia. varna, color, the different castes having been at first 
Castanea (kas-ta'ne-a), n. [L., the chestnut- marked by differences of complexion, according to race, 
<5! ' a "fi>P,tfn flipitnvt 1 A ire- and in some degree according to occupation and conse- 
tree, a chestnut, see clicsten, cnesmui.j A g( nt osure Besides the original castes, numerous 
nus of plants, natural order Cupuufera, con- m j xe( i classes or castes have sprung up in the progress 
ii <i> \ji. ILUIM >, iidi in <i L V/A\AVI \swjjwwj \ji "" mixed ellipses or cjisiys iiiive bpiuu^ up in me piu^itno 
Tender's a cast of coach-mares of the gentlewoman's, the gjgting of trees or shrubs with straight-veined of time, and are dependent upon trade, occupation, or 
Mnmofc nattla 1 Efdn. (Old 1'L. Scornful Lady, 11. 1. . - ,. 11.,. _! ^..,^* QDa j. in f Q /.f tlm pespnHnl nrim-inle in tbe svstem 
strangest cattle ! Beau, and FL, Scornful Lady, ii. 1. 
22. Assistance; a lift; especially, a seat ac- 
corded a pedestrian or wayfarer in a vehicle 
or other conveyance for a part of the way. 
We therefore bargained with the driver . ._. to give us 
leaves and naked unisexual flowers, the male 
in catkins and the female solitary. The nuts are 
contained in a prickly 4-valved envelop. Only two species 
are known, the common chestnut, C. vesca, and the chin- 
kapin, C. pumila. See cut under chestnut. 
a cant to the next stage. Smollett, Roderick Random, xi. Castanella (kas-ta-nel'a), n. [NL., < L. COS- hu 5 n 'anity that of hallowing evil by the authority" and 
In literature, quotation is good only when the writer tanea, a chestnut, + dim. -ella.~\ The typical iw.i.,,/.*. \v^t* r. n 
whom I follow . . . gives me a cast. genus of radiolarians of the family CastanelhdcF. 
n, Quotation and Originality. Qastanellidse (kas-ta-nel'i-de), n. pi. [NL., 
' " 
23. In beer-making, the amount of water used 
in preparing any given amount of beer, or in 
any stage of the process of brewing. The quan 
Castanella + -idee.'} " A family of tripylean ra- 
diolarians with a fenestrated shell which is 
spherical, simple, and composed of solid rods, 
tity of water in the mash-tun into which the crushed malt d n g at one po i n t a large principal opening, 
u throw., is the first cast : subsequent additions are the '"_ , .f, __ 
often armed with coronal spicules, and with or 
without radial spicules. It contains such gen- 
era as 
is thrown is the first cast ; subsequent additions are the 
second cast, third cast, etc. 
24. In apiculture, an after-swarm of bees led 
bv a maiden queen. 25. Yield: applied to . 
[Prov. Eng.] 26. Four, as a castaneous (kas-ta'ne-us), a. [< L. as it cas- 
in poimtinf? herrin^rs haddocks tancus. s cast-anew, a cuestnuii: see \*asianca.j 
as being the number lifted at Chestnut-colored ; of a reddish or brownish-red 
once (two in'each hand). [Scotch.] 27. An color. 
grain-crops. 
up-cup ; a pi 
Let's have a bridling cast before you go. 
Fill 's a new stoop. Beau, and Ft., Scornful Lady, ii. 2. 
Cast after cast, a method of raising excavated material 
from the bottom of a mine or other working, by shoveling 
it up from one platform to another. Measuring cast, 
in a game, a cast or throw that requires to be measured, 
or that cannot be distinguished from another without 
measuring. 
When lusty shepherds throw 
The bar by turns, and none the rest outgo 
So far, but that the best are mauurlng casts, 
Their emulation and their pastime lasts. Waller. 
Renal or urinary cast, a microscopic subcylindrical cast 
of a portion of a uriniferous tubule, found in the urine in 
renal disease. Hyaline, granular, fatty, epithelial, blood, 
castanea, a chestnut; from 
the resemblance.] One of a 
pair of slightly concave 
spoon-shaped shells of ivory 
tened together at the base, 
and used (slung over the 
thumb) in beating time to 
music or dancing. Castanets 
are used by the Spaniards and Moors 
as an accompaniment to their 
dances and guitars, and are now 
widely introduced among other na- 
tions, with some variations of form. 
and waxy-looking casts are distinguished. The last cast, p- _ t ' nn< .J s ( v as . t a . nO n ' - 
(a) The last throw of the dice ; the last stake ; the ventur- oasianopsis I.K.IS 
ing of all that remains to one on one throw or one effort ; sis), n. [NL., < Gr. Kaaravoc, , 
ng 
the last chance. 
So Euphues, which at the first increasing of our familiar- 
itie, was very zealous, is now at the last- cast become most 
faithlesse. Lyly, Euphues, Anat. of Wit, p. 89. 
Will you turn recreant at the last cast ? Dryden. 
(&t) The last gasp ; the last extremity. 
Where's this man now 
That has took all this care and pains for nothing? 
The use of him is at the last cast now. 
Middleton, More Dissemblers besides Women, iv. 1. 
Sir Thomas Bodley is even now at the last cast, and hath 
lain speechless and without knowledge since yesterday at 
noon. Letter dated 1612. 
[Spenser uses utmost cast in the same sense. 
Whereas he last 
Had left that couple nere 
To mato a cast, to search for the scent of game. 
Notwithstanding the strong scent of the otter, he often 
escapes the hounds, and then a cast has to be made. 
Encyc. Brit., XII. 396. 
the chestnut-tree, 
, appearance.] A genus of shrubs and 
trees intermediate between the oak and chest- 
nut, of a dozen species, natives of eastern Asia, 
with a single species on the Pacific slope of 
North America. See chinkapin, 1. 
castaway (kast'a-wa), TO. and a. [< cast, pp. 
of casti, r., + away.} I. n. 1. One who or 
that which has been cast away or lost ; specifi- 
cally, a ship wrecked or lost on an unfre- 
quented coast, or a person shipwrecked on 
such a coast. 
A castaway 
Upon the lonely rocks of life. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, II. 331. 
Hence 2. An outcast; a reprobate; one mor- 
ally lost or ruined. 
But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection ; 
lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, 
I myself should be a castaway. 1 Cor. ix. 27. 
, ..,._ . >ccup! 
profession ; in fact, the essential principle in the system 
of caste is the confining of employments to hereditary 
classes. Castes are, according to Indian social standards, 
either "high" or "low." The same term is also used of 
somewhat similar classes in other countries. 
The system of caste involves the worst of all wrongs to 
jmanity that of hallowing evil by the authority and 
sanction of religion. Faiths of the World, p. 30. 
To be subjugated by an inferior caste was a degradation 
beyond all other degradation. Maeaulay, Hist. Eng. 
Offensive as is the low-caste Indian, ... I had rather 
see the lowest Pariahs of the low, than a single trim, 
smooth-faced, smooth-wayed, clever high-caste Hindoo on 
my lands or in my colony. 
W. O. Palgrave, in Fortnightly Rev. 
Hence 2. A division of society, or the princi- 
ple of grading society, according to external 
conditions; a class or grade separated from 
others by differences of wealth, hereditary rank 
or privileges, or by profession or employment. 
Where the operations became hereditary, a system of 
castes arose. This system has never been rigid in Western 
Europe, however, as it has been in India and other coun- 
tries of the East. 
D. W. Ross, German Land-holding, Notes, p. 134.. 
Her manner had not that repose 
Which stamps the caste of Vere de Vere. 
Tennyson, Lady Clara Vere de Vere. 
The spirit of caste morally tortures its victims with as 
much coolness as the Indian tortures his enemy. 
H. Spencer, Social Statics, p. 221. 
To lose caste, to be degraded from the caste to which 
one belongs ; lose social position, 
castellan (kas'te-lan), n. [< ME. castellain, eas- 
telein, < OF. castellain, chastelain, F. chatelain 
(ef. chatelaine) = Pr. Sp. castellan = Cat. cas- 
telld = Pg. castellao = It. castellano, < ML. cas- 
tellamts, keeper of a castle, < L. castellwm, a cas- 
tle : see castle.'] A governor or constable of a 
castle. Also written castellain. 
(kas-tel-ya'no), n. [Sp., an ancient 
, the fiftieth part of a mark of 
ip. adj., Castilian, Spanish. See 
South American weight for gold, 
equal to 71.07 grains. 
castellany (kas'te-la-ni), .; pi. castellanies 
(-niz). [Same as chdtellany (< F. cliatellenie) ; 
= Pr. Sp. Pg. It. castellania, < ML. castellania, 
< castellanus, a castellan: see castellan.'] The 
jurisdiction of a castellan ; the lordship belong- 
ing to a castle, or the extent of its land and ju- 
risdiction. Also called chatellany. 
Earl Allan has within his castellany, or the jurisdiction 
of his castle, 200 manors, all but one. 
Kelkam, Domesday Book, p. 147. 
et 
ia,r ^ivaa i,e-lar), a. [< ML. as if 
laris, < L. castellum, castle: see castle.'] Be- 
longing or pertaining to a castle. 
Ancient castellar dungeons. Walpole, Letters, IV. 480, 
