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Into a feparate fmall pot, filled with light Tandy earth, and 
may be plunged again into the hot-bed to forward their 
faking new root; after which they fliould be removed into 
'a dry dove, where they (houid conftantly remain, giving 
but Tittle water in winter, and in Cummer admitting a large 
lhare of air in warm weather, for this plant is too tender 
to thrive in the open air in this climate. 
To C AST, w. a. prefer, cajl ; particip. pad’, cafi', [ kajlcr , 
Danifli. ] This is a word of multifarious and indefinite ufc .— < 
To throw with the hand.—T iiey had compafled in his holt, 
and cajl darts at the people from morning till evening, 
i Macc. vii. So.—To throw away, as ufelefs or noxious.— 
If thv right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cajl it from 
thee.’ Matthew. —To throw, as from an engine.—Slings to 
cafi (tones. Chronicles. — To fcatter by the hand : as, to cajl 
feed.— Cajl, the dud into the brook. Deuteronomy. —To force 
by violence.— Cajl them into the Red Sea. Exodus. —To 
fhed.—Nor (hall your vine cajl her fruit. Malachi. —To 
throw from a high place : 
Bear him to the rock Tarpeian, and from thence 
Into deftruftion cajl him. Shakefipeare. 
To throw as a net or fnare.—I fpeak for your own profit, 
not that I may cajl a fnare upon you. i Cor. vii. 35.—To 
drop; to let fall.—They let down the boat into the fea, 
as though they would have cajl anchor. Afls xxv ii. 30.— 
To throw dice, or lots.—-And Jofima cafi lots for them in 
Shiloh. Jofiiua. xviii. 10.—To throw, in wrefiling.—Tho’ 
he took my legs fomefime, yet I made a (hi ft to cafi him. 
—To throw, as worthlefs or hateful.—His friends contend 
to embalm his body ; his enemies that they may cafi it 
to the dogs. Pope. —To drive by violence of weather : 
What length of lands, what ocean, have you pafs’d, 
What (forms fudain'd, and on w hat (bore been caj't? Dryden. 
To emit.—This fumes off in the calcination of the flone, 
and cajls a fulphureous fmell. Woodward. —To bring fud- 
denly or unexpectedly.—Content with that which was 
the irremediable error of former time, or the neceffity of 
the prefent, hath cafi upon them. Hooker. —To build, by 
throwing up earth; to raife.—Thine enemies (hall cajl a 
trench about thee. Luke. —Earth-worms will come forth, 
and moles will cajl up more, and fleas bite more, againit 
rain. Bacon. —To put into or out of any certain date, with 
the notion of defeent, or dep'relTion.: as, the king was cajl 
from his throne.— At thy rebuke both the chariot and 
horfe are cafi into a dead deep. PJ'alm lxxvi. 6 . —To con¬ 
demn in a criminal trial.—We take up with the mofr in¬ 
competent witneffes, nay, often fuborn our own furmifes 
and jealoufies, that we may be fare to cajl the unhappy 
criminal. Government efi the Tohgue. —To overcome or de¬ 
feat in a law-fuit ; [from cafier, Fir.]:—Were the cafe re¬ 
ferred to any competent judge, they would inevitably be 
cafi. Decay ofi Piety. —T o defeat : 
No martial project to furprife. 
Can ever be attempted twice ; 
Nor cajl defign ferve afterwards, 
As gamefters tear their loiing cards. HudiUras-. 
To cafiiier.—You are but now cajl in his mood, a punifli- 
ment more in policy than in malice ; even, fo as one would 
beat Ills offencelefs dog, to affright an imperious lion. 
Shahfpearc. —To leave behind in a race : 
In fliort, fo fwift your judgments turn and wind, 
You cajl our fleeted wits a mile behind. Dryden. 
To filed ; to let fall; to lay afide ; to moult ; to change 
for new.—Of plants lomeare green all winter, others cajl 
their leaves. Bacon. —The creatures that cajl the flein, are 
the (hake, the viper, the grafshopper, the lizard,,the filk- 
worm, &c. Bacon. 
From hence, my lord and love, I thus conclude, 
That though my homely ancefiors were rude, 
Mean as I am, yet may I have the grace 
To make you father of a generous race : 
And noble then am I, when I begin, 
In virtue cloth'd, to cajl the rags of fin. 
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To lay afide, as fit (0 be nfedor worn no longer-'—He lias 
ever been of opinion, that giving cajl clothes to be worn 
by valets has a very ill effect upon little minds. Addijon. 
—To have abortions; to bring forth before the time.—> 
Thy ewes and thy flie-goats have not cajl their young. Ge- 
nejis. —To make to preponderate ; to decide by over-ba¬ 
lancing ; to give over-weight.— How much interefl cajls 
the balance in cafes dubious. South. —To compute ; to 
reckon ; to calculate.—I have lately been cafting in nry 
thoughts the feveral unhappinefles of life, and comparing 
the infelicities of old age to thof'e of infancy. Addijon. —• 
To contrive; to plan out.—The cloifier facing the fouth 
is covered with vines, and would have been proper for an 
orange-houfe ; and had, 1 doubt not, been cajl for that pur- 
pofe. Temple. —To judge ; toconfider in order to judgment: 
Peace, brother, be not over exquifite 
To cajl the fafliion of uncertain evils. Milton. 
To fix the parts in a play.—Our parts in the other-world, 
will be n zvficafi, and mankind will be there ranged in dif 
ferent flations of fuperiority. Addijon. —To glance ; to di¬ 
rect : applied to the eye or mind : 
Begin, aufpicious boy, to cajl about 
Thy infant eyes, and, with a fmile, thy mother fingle out- 
Dryden - 
Far eaftward cajl thine eye, from whence the fun. 
And orient line nee., at a birth begun. Pope. 
To found ; to form by running in a mould.—When any 
fuch curious work of filver is to be cajl, as requires that 
the impreflion of hairs, or very flender lines, be taken off 
by the metal, it is not enough that the filver be barely 
melted, but it mu ft be kept a confiderable while in aftrong 
fullon. Boyle, —To melt metal into figures : 
Yon crowd, he might refieft, yon joyful crowd 
With reftlefs rage will pull my ftatue down, 
And cajl the brafs anew to Iris renown. Prior. 
To model ; to form by rule.—We may take a quarter of' 
a mile for the common meafure of the 'depth of tire fea, 
if it were cajl Into a channel of an equal depth every where. 
Burnet. —To communicate by reflection or emanation : 
So bright a fplendour, fo divine a grace, 
The glorious Daphnis cajls on his illuftrious race. Dryden „ 
To yield, or give up, without referve or condition.—The 
reafon of mankind cannot fugged any (olid ground of fa- 
tisfaftion, but in making God our friend, and in carrying au- 
confcience fo clear, as may encourage 11s, with confidence, 
to cajl ourfelves uponhim. South. —To inllift.—The world 
is apt to cajl great blame on thofe who have an indifterency 
for opinions, efpecially in religion. Locke. 
To cast aside. To difrnifs as ufelefs or inconvenient 5 
I have bought 
Golden opinions from all forts of people, 
Which would be worn now in their neweft glofs, 
Not cajl afide fo foon. Shakefipeare. 
7 b cast away. To (hipwreck : 
With pity mov’d for others cajl away. 
On rocks of hope and fears. Rofcommon, 
To lavifh ; to wade in profufion ; to turn to no life : 
France, had thou yet more blood to cajl away ? 
Say, (hall the current of our right run on ? Sha/iefipeare. 
To ruin.—It is no impoflible thing for dates, by an over¬ 
fight in feme one aft or treaty between them and their 
potent oppofites, utterly to cajl away themfelves for ever. 
Hooker. 
To cast by. To reject or difrnifs, with negleft or 
hate.—When men, prefuming themfelves to be the only 
mailers of right reafon, cajl by the votes and opinions of- 
the red of mankind, a^ not worthy of reckoning. Locke. 
To cast do wn. To 'reject ; to deprefs the mind : 
For thee, opprefled king, I am cajl down ; 
Myfelf could elfe out-frown falfe fortune’s frown. Shakf. 
To 
Dryden. 
