Part 1683

<p><b>7.</b> <def>To bring forth prematurely; to slink.</def>

<blockquote>Thy she-goats have not <b>cast</b> their young. <i>Gen. xxi. 38.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>8.</b> <def>To throw out or emit; to exhale.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>This . . . <b>casts</b> a sulphureous smell. <i>Woodward.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>9.</b> <def>To cause to fall; to shed; to reflect; to throw; <as>as, to <ex>cast</ex> a ray upon a screen; to <ex>cast</ex> light upon a subject.</as></def>

<p><b>10.</b> <def>To impose; to bestow; to rest.</def>

<blockquote>The government I <b>cast</b> upon my brother. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote><b>Cast</b> thy burden upon the Lord. <i>Ps. iv. 22.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>11.</b> <def>To dismiss; to discard; to cashier.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>The state can not with safety <b>cast</b>him.

<p><b>12.</b> <def>To compute; to reckon; to calculate; <as>as, to <ex>cast</ex> a horoscope</as>.</def> "Let it be <i>cast</i> and paid."

<i>Shak.</i>

<blockquote>You <b>cast</b> the event of war my noble lord. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>13.</b> <def>To contrive; to plan.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark>

<blockquote>The cloister . . . had, I doubt not, been <b>cast</b> for [an orange- house]. <i>Sir W. Temple.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>14.</b> <def>To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict; <as>as, to be <ex>cast</ex> in damages</as>.</def>

<blockquote>She was <b>cast</b> to be hanged. <i>Jeffrey.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Were the case referred to any competent judge, they would inevitably be <b>cast</b>. <i>Dr. H. More.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>15.</b> <def>To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide; <as>as, a <ex>casting</ex> voice</as>.</def>

<blockquote>How much interest <b>casts</b> the balance in cases dubious! <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>16.</b> <def>To form into a particular shape, by pouring liquid metal or other material into a mold; to fashion; to found; <as>as, to <ex>cast</ex> bells, stoves, bullets</as>.</def>

<p><b>17.</b> <fld>(Print.)</fld> <def>To stereotype or electrotype.</def>

<p><b>18.</b> <def>To fix, distribute, or allot, as the parts of a play among actors; also to assign (an actor) for a part.</def>

<blockquote>Our parts in the other world will be new <b>cast</b>. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To cast anchor</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <cd>Se under <er>Anchor</er>.</cd> -- <col>To cast a horoscope</col>, <cd>to calculate it.</cd> -- <mcol><col>To cast a horse</col>, <col>sheep</col>, or other animal</mcol>, <cd>to throw with the feet upwards, in such a manner as to prevent its rising again.</cd> -- <col>To cast a shoe</col>, <cd>to throw off or lose a shoe, said of a horse or ox.</cd> -- <col>To cast aside</col>, <cd>to throw or push aside; to neglect; to reject as useless or inconvenient.</cd> -- <col>To cast away</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To throw away; to lavish; to waste.</cd> "<i>Cast away<i> a life" <i>Addison</i>. <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To reject; to let perish.</cd> "<i>Cast away<i> his people." <i>Rom. xi. 1</i>. "<i>Cast<i> one <i>away<i>." <i>Shak</i>. <sd>(c)</sd> <cd>To wreck.</cd> "<i>Cast away<i> and sunk." <i>Shak</i>. -- <col>To cast by</col>, <cd>to reject; to dismiss or discard; to throw away.</cd> -- <col>To cast down</col>, <cd>to throw down; to destroy; to deject or depress, as the mind.</cd> "Why art thou <i>cast down<i>. O my soul?" <i>Ps. xiii. 5</i>. -- <col>To cast forth</col>, <cd>to throw out, or eject, as from an inclosed place; to emit; to send out.</cd> -- <col>To cast in one's lot with</col>, <cd>to share the fortunes of.</cd> -- <col>To cast in one's teeth</col>, <cd>to upbraid or abuse one for; to twin.</cd> -- <col>To cast lots</col>. <cd>See under <er>Lot</er>.</cd> -- <col>To cast off</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To discard or reject; to drive away; to put off; to free one's self from.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <fld>(Hunting)</fld> <cd>To leave behind, as dogs; also, to set loose, or free, as dogs.</cd> <i>Crabb</i>. <sd>(c)</sd> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <cd>To untie, throw off, or let go, as a rope.</cd> -- <col>To cast off copy</col>, <cd><fld>(Print.)</fld>, <cd>to estimate how much printed matter a given amount of copy will make, or how large the page must be in order that the copy may make a given number of pages.</cd> -- <mcol><col>To cast one's self on</col> &or; <col>upon<col></col> to yield or submit one's self unreservedly to. as to the mercy of another.</cd> -- <col>To cast out</col>, <cd>to throy out; to eject, as from a house; to cast forth; to expel; to utter.</cd> -- <col>To cast the lead</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>to sound by dropping the lead to the botton.</cd> -- <col>To cast the water</col> <fld>(Med.)</fld>, <cd>to examine the urine for signs of disease.</cd> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>. -- <col>To cast up</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To throw up; to raise.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To compute; to reckon, as the cost.</cd> <sd>(c)</sd> <cd>To vomit.</cd> <sd>(d)</sd> <cd>To twit with; to throw in one's teeth.</cd></cs>

<h1>Cast</h1> <Xpage=223>

<hw>Cast</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To throw, as a line in angling, esp, with a fly hook.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>To turn the head of a vessel around from the wind in getting under weigh.</def>