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s To cast forth. To emit.—He Aval] grow as the 
lily, and ca/l forth his roots as Lebanon. FloJ'ea. —To eject. 
—They caf me forth into the Tea. Jonah. 
To cast Off. To difeard ; to put away.— Cajl me not 
off in the time of old age. Pfalms . —To reject.—It is not to 
be imagined, that a whole fociety of men (liould publicly 
and profetfediy difown and cajl off a rule, which they could 
not but be ■ infallibly certain was a law. Locke. — To dif- 
burden one’s felf of. —Company, in any aC’tion, gives cre¬ 
dit and countenance to th'e agent ; and fo much as the Tin¬ 
ner gets of this, lb much lie cajls off of fliatne. South. —To 
leave belli rid.—Away he fcours acrofs- the fields, cafs off 
the dogs, and gains a wood : but, prefling through a 
thicket, the bullies held him by the horns, till the hounds 
came in, and plucked him down. L’ Ef range .- — To let go, 
or let lire [a hunting term'] : as, to cajl off tlie dogs. 
To cast o u t. To rejeCt; to turn out of doors.—Thy 
brat hath been caf out, like to itfell, no father owning it. 
Shcikefpeare. — To vent ; to fpeak : with fame intimation of 
negligence or. vehemence : 
Why dolt thou ca/l out fiich ungenerous terms 
Againfl the lords and fovereigns of the world l Addifon. 
To cast up. Tocompute; tocalculate.—A man who 
■defigns to build, is very exact, as he fuppofes, in cafivg 
vp the coft before-hand ; but, generally fpeaking, he is 
m.iftaken in his account. Dryden. —To vomit: 
Thy foolifh error find ; 
Cajl up the poifon that infects thy mind. Dryden. 
To cast upon. To refer to ; to refign to.—If things 
were caft upon this iffue, that God' fliould never prevent 
fin till man deferved it, the belt would fin and fin for ever. 
South. 
To CAST, v.n. To contrive ; to turn the thoughts: 
This way and that I caf to fave my friends. 
Till one refolve my varying counfel ends. Pope. 
To admit of a form, by calling'or melting. — It comes at 
the firfl fu(ion into a mats that is immediately malleable, 
and will not run thin, fo as to cajl and mould, unlefs mix¬ 
ed with poorer ore, or cinders. Woodward. —To warp ; to 
grow out of form. —Stuff is laid to cajl or warp, when, by 
its own drought, or moifture of the air, or other accident, 
it alters its flatnefs and ftraightnefs. Moxon. 
fo Cast about. To contrive ; to look for means.— 
Inanimate bodies are not confcious of their own operations, 
nor contrive and caf about to bring inch events to pal's. 
Bentley. 
C AST, A The aft of calling or throwing ; a throw : 
So when a fort of lufty flrepherds throw 
The bar by turns, and none the reft outgo 
So far, but that the reft are mea luring cafs, 
Their emulation and their palt.me lalts. Waller. 
The thing thrown : 
Yet all thefe dreadful deeds, this deadly fray, 
A caf of dreadful duft will loon allay. Dryden. 
Stale of any thing cajl or thrown.—Plato compares life to 
a game at tables ; there what caf we (hall have is not in 
our power ; but to manage it well is. Norris .•—Manner of 
throwing.—Some harrow their ground over, and fow wheat 
or rye on it with a broad caf, feme only wit h a Angle caf, 
and fome with a double. Mortimer. —The fpace through 
which anything is thrown.—And he was withdrawn from 
them about a (tone’s cajl, and kneeled down and prayed. 
Luke . —A ftroke ; a touch.—Another ca/l of their politics, 
was that of endeavouring to impeach an innocent lady, for 
lier faithful and diligent fervice of the queen. Swift .—. 
Motion of the eye; direction of the eye.—Pity caufeth 
fometimes tears, and a flexion or caf of the eye afide ; for 
pity is but grief in another’s behalf; the caf of the eye is 
a geflure of averflon, or lothnefs, to behold the objeCt of 
pity, Bacon. —He that (quints is faid popularly to have a 
caf with his eye. The throw of dice : 
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Were it good, 
To fet the exaCt wealth of all our (tales 
All at one cajl ; to fet lo rich a main 
On the nice hazard of fome doubtful hour ? Shakeffpeare. 
Venture from throwing dice ; chance from the fail of dice : 
With better grace an.ancient chief may yield 
The long contended honours oT the field, 
I ban venture all his tortune at a caf, 
And fight, like Hannibal, to lofe at lafl. Dryden. 
A mould ; a form.—The whole would have been an he¬ 
roic poem, but in another caf and figure than any that 
ever had been written before. Prior. —A fliade ; or ten¬ 
dency to any colour.—The qualities of blood in a healthy 
(late are to be florid, the red part congealing, and the fe- 
rum ought to be without any greenifh cajl. Arbulhnot .— 
Exterior appearance: 
The native hue of refolution 
Is ficklied o’er with the pale cajl of thought. Shakcfpeare .. 
Manner ; air ; mien.—Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, 
glittering expreflions, and Comet liing of a neat cajl of verfe, 
are properly the drefs, gems, or loofe ornaments, of poe¬ 
try. Pope. —A flight ; a number of hawks dil’mifled from 
the fill.—A cajl of merlins there was belides, which, fly¬ 
ing of a gallant height, would beat the birds that rofe 
down unto the bullies, as falcons will do wild fowl over a 
river. Sidney. — \_Cafa, Span.] A breed; a. race; a fpe- 
cies ; a fraternity. The divilion of the people into cults, 
chiefly obtains in the dominions of the Great Mogul, in 
Bengal, Ceylon, and the various provinces of IIindoo- 
stan : for the particulars of which, fee that article. 
CASTABIJE'N A, a town of Klria: fix miles foutii of 
Capo dTflria. 
CASTAGNITO, a town of the duchy of Piedmont, 
(ituated on the right fide of the Po, oppefite Chivazzo. 
CAS'l'A'GNO (Andrew del), the fir It painter of Tuf- 
cany who underflood the art of painting in oil. Dominica 
de Venife, who had learned it ol Anthony de Medina, be¬ 
ing come to Florence, Caltagno courted his friend (hip and 
wormed out the fecret from him. He "afterwards con¬ 
ceived Inch a deadly jealoufy againfl: Dominico his friend 
and benefactor, that, unmindful of the obligations he 
owed him, he alfaflinated him in the ilreet. Dominico, 
not recognizing his murderer, can fed hinifelf to be car¬ 
ried to the houie of his cruel friend, of whofe treachery 
lie was not aware, and died in His arms. Caltagno on his 
death-bed confeffed the horrid deed, the author of which 
had never been difcovered. His corpfe was attended to 
the grave by the hatred and indignation of the public. No 
fooner had he learnt the fecret of Dominico, than he fet 
about feveral works at Florence which were greatly ad¬ 
mired. It was he who in 1478 executed, by order of the 
republic, the picture which reprefents the execution'of 
the confpirators againfl the houie of Medicis. 
CASTAGNO'I.A, a town of Italy, in the principality 
of Piedmont, on the Po : eight miles I'outli of Turin, and 
feven north weft of Carmagnola. 
CASTAL'DI (Cornelius), born at Feltri, of an ancient 
family, in 1480. He addicted hinifelf at once to the bar 
and to poetry, thus enlivening the drynefs of jurifpru- 
dence by the charms of verfe. His country having charged 
him with its affairs to the republic of Venice, he fulfilled 
the purpofes of his embafly with advanlage to his country 
and honour to hinifelf. Padua, where he fixed hinifelf in 
marriage, is indebted to him for the endowment of a col¬ 
lege. He ended his days in 1537, at the age of fifty-feven. 
His poems, a long time unknown, were firft publilhed by 
the abbe Conti, a Venetian, in 1757, 4to. 
C ASTA'LIAN SPRING. See Castalius. 
CASTA'LIO (Sebaftian), born at Chatillon, on the 
Rhone, in 1515. Calvin conceived Inch an efteer.i and 
friendfliip for him, during the flay he made at Stralburg, 
in 1540, that he lodged him at his liotife, and procured 
him a regent’s place in the college of Geneva. Caftalio, 
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