CPage 122
- English Word Cast Definition The thing thrown.
- English Word Cast Definition The distance to which a thing is or can be thrown.
- English Word Cast Definition A throw of dice; hence, a chance or venture.
- English Word Cast Definition 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.
- English Word Cast Definition The act of casting in a mold.
- English Word Cast Definition An impression or mold, taken from a thing or person; amold; a pattern.
- English Word Cast Definition 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.
- English Word Cast Definition Form; appearence; mien; air; style; as, a peculiar cast of countenance.
- English Word Cast Definition A tendency to any color; a tinge; a shade.
- English Word Cast Definition A chance, opportunity, privilege, or advantage; specifically, an opportunity of riding; a lift.
- English Word Cast Definition The assignment of parts in a play to the actors.
- English Word Cast Definition A flight or a couple or set of hawks let go at one time from the hand.
- English Word Cast Definition A stoke, touch, or trick.
- English Word Cast Definition A motion or turn, as of the eye; direction; look; glance; squint.
- English Word Cast Definition A tube or funnel for conveying metal into a mold.
- English Word Cast Definition Four; that is, as many as are thrown into a vessel at once in counting herrings, etc; a warp.
- English Word Cast Definition Contrivance; plot, design.
- English Word Cast iron Definition Highly carbonized iron, the direct product of the blast furnace; -- used for making castings, and for conversion into wrought iron and steel. It can not be welded or forged, is brittle, and sometimes very hard. Besides carbon, it contains sulphur, phosphorus, silica, etc.
- English Word Cast steel Definition See Cast steel, under Steel.
- English Word Cast-iron Definition Made of cast iron. Hence, Fig.: like cast iron; hardy; unyielding.