Part 1684

<blockquote>Weigh anchor, <b>cast</b> to starboard. <i>Totten.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan; <as>as, to <ex>cast</ex> about for reasons</as>.</def>

<blockquote>She . . . <b>cast</b> in her mind what manner of salution this should be. <i>Luke. i. 29.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To calculate; to compute.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>Who would <b>cast</b> and balance at a desk. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To receive form or shape in a mold.</def>

<blockquote>It will not run thin, so as to <b>cast</b> and mold. <i>Woodward.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>To warp; to become twisted out of shape.</def>

<blockquote>Stuff is said to <b>cast</b> or warp when . . . it alters its flatness or straightness. <i>Moxon.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>To vomit.</def>

<blockquote>These verses . . . make me ready to <b>cast</b>. <i>B. Jonson.</i></blockquote>

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

<hw>Cast</hw>, <def><tt>3d pres.</tt> of <er>Cast</er>, for <i>Casteth</i>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

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

<hw>Cast</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. Icel., Dan., & Sw. <ets>kast</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of casting or throwing; a throw.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The thing thrown.</def>

<blockquote>A <b>cast</b> of dreadful dust. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The distance to which a thing is or can be thrown.</def> "About a stone's <i>cast</i>."

<i>Luke xxii. 41.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A throw of dice; hence, a chance or venture.</def>

<blockquote>An even <b>cast</b> whether the army should march this way or that way.

<i>Sowth.</i>

<blockquote>I have set my life upon a <b>cast</b>, And I will stand the hazard of the die. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>That which is throw out or off, shed, or ejected; <as>as, the skin of an insect, the refuse from a hawk's stomach, the excrement of a earthworm</as>.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>The act of casting in a mold.</def>

<blockquote>And why such daily <b>cast</b> of brazen cannon. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>An impression or mold, taken from a thing or person; amold; a pattern.</def>