English English Dictionary

of Cast

To send or drive by force; to throw; to fling; to hurl; to impel.

To direct or turn, as the eyes.

To drop; to deposit; as, to cast a ballot.

To throw down, as in wrestling.

To throw up, as a mound, or rampart.

To throw off; to eject; to shed; to lose.

To bring forth prematurely; to slink.

To throw out or emit; to exhale.

To cause to fall; to shed; to reflect; to throw; as, to cast a ray upon a screen; to cast light upon a subject.

To impose; to bestow; to rest.

To dismiss; to discard; to cashier.

To compute; to reckon; to calculate; as, to cast a horoscope.

To contrive; to plan.

To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict; as, to be cast in damages.

To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide; as, a casting voice.

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.

To stereotype or electrotype.

To fix, distribute, or allot, as the parts of a play among actors; also to assign (an actor) for a part.

To throw, as a line in angling, esp, with a fly hook.

To turn the head of a vessel around from the wind in getting under weigh.

To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan; as, to cast about for reasons.

To calculate; to compute.

To receive form or shape in a mold.

To warp; to become twisted out of shape.

To vomit.

3d pres. of Cast, for Casteth.

The act of casting or throwing; a throw.

The thing thrown.

The distance to which a thing is or can be thrown.

A throw of dice; hence, a chance or venture.

That which is throw out or off, shed, or ejected; as, the skin of an insect, the refuse from a hawk's stomach, the excrement of a earthworm.

The act of casting in a mold.

An impression or mold, taken from a thing or person; amold; a pattern.

That which is formed in a mild; esp. a reproduction or copy, as of a work of art, in bronze or plaster, etc.; a casting.

Form; appearence; mien; air; style; as, a peculiar cast of countenance.

A tendency to any color; a tinge; a shade.

A chance, opportunity, privilege, or advantage; specifically, an opportunity of riding; a lift.

The assignment of parts in a play to the actors.

A flight or a couple or set of hawks let go at one time from the hand.

A stoke, touch, or trick.

A motion or turn, as of the eye; direction; look; glance; squint.

A tube or funnel for conveying metal into a mold.

Four; that is, as many as are thrown into a vessel at once in counting herrings, etc; a warp.

Contrivance; plot, design.