CPage 121
- English Word Cast Definition To throw out or emit; to exhale.
- English Word Cast Definition To cause to fall; to shed; to reflect; to throw; as, to cast a ray upon a screen; to cast light upon a subject.
- English Word Cast Definition To impose; to bestow; to rest.
- English Word Cast Definition To dismiss; to discard; to cashier.
- English Word Cast Definition To compute; to reckon; to calculate; as, to cast a horoscope.
- English Word Cast Definition To contrive; to plan.
- English Word Cast Definition To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict; as, to be cast in damages.
- English Word Cast Definition To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide; as, a casting voice.
- English Word Cast Definition 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.
- English Word Cast Definition To stereotype or electrotype.
- English Word Cast Definition To fix, distribute, or allot, as the parts of a play among actors; also to assign (an actor) for a part.
- English Word Cast Definition To throw, as a line in angling, esp, with a fly hook.
- English Word Cast Definition To turn the head of a vessel around from the wind in getting under weigh.
- English Word Cast Definition To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan; as, to cast about for reasons.
- English Word Cast Definition To calculate; to compute.
- English Word Cast Definition To receive form or shape in a mold.
- English Word Cast Definition To warp; to become twisted out of shape.
- English Word Cast Definition To vomit.
- English Word Cast Definition 3d pres. of Cast, for Casteth.
- English Word Cast Definition The act of casting or throwing; a throw.