again. — To cast a shoe, to throw off or lose a shoe, said of a horse or ox. — To cast aside, to
throw or push aside; to neglect; to reject as useless or inconvenient. — To cast away. (a) To throw
away; to lavish; to waste. "Cast away a life" Addison. (b) To reject; to let perish. "Cast away his people."
Rom. xi. 1. "Cast one away." Shak. (c) To wreck. "Cast away and sunk." Shak. — To cast by, to
reject; to dismiss or discard; to throw away. — To cast down, to throw down; to destroy; to deject or
depress, as the mind. "Why art thou cast down. O my soul?" Ps. xiii. 5. — To cast forth, to throw
out, or eject, as from an inclosed place; to emit; to send out. — To cast in one's lot with, to share the
fortunes of. — To cast in one's teeth, to upbraid or abuse one for; to twin. — To cast lots. See
under Lot. — To cast off. (a) To discard or reject; to drive away; to put off; to free one's self from. (b)
(Hunting) To leave behind, as dogs; also, to set loose, or free, as dogs. Crabb. (c) (Naut.) To untie,
throw off, or let go, as a rope. — To cast off copy, (Print.), 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. — To cast one's self on or upon to yield or submit one's self unreservedly
to, as to the mercy of another. — To cast out, to throw out; to eject, as from a house; to cast forth; to
expel; to utter. — To cast the lead (Naut.), to sound by dropping the lead to the bottom. — To cast
the water (Med.), to examine the urine for signs of disease. [Obs.]. — To cast up. (a) To throw
up; to raise. (b) To compute; to reckon, as the cost. (c) To vomit. (d) To twit with; to throw in one's
teeth.
Cast
(Cast) v. i.
1. To throw, as a line in angling, esp, with a fly hook.
2. (Naut.) To turn the head of a vessel around from the wind in getting under weigh.
Weigh anchor, cast to starboard.
Totten.
3. To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan; as, to cast about for reasons.
She . . . cast in her mind what manner of salution this should be.
Luke. i. 29.
4. To calculate; to compute. [R.]
Who would cast and balance at a desk.
Tennyson.
5. To receive form or shape in a mold.
It will not run thin, so as to cast and mold.
Woodward.
6. To warp; to become twisted out of shape.
Stuff is said to cast or warp when . . . it alters its flatness or straightness.
Moxon.
7. To vomit.
These verses . . . make me ready to cast.
B. Jonson.
Cast
(Cast), 3d pres. of Cast, for Casteth. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Cast
(Cast), n. [Cf. Icel., Dan., & Sw. kast.]
1. The act of casting or throwing; a throw.
2. The thing thrown.
A cast of dreadful dust.
Dryden.
