3. Founder, moulder. 4. Cruet, cruse, phial. 5. Cruet-frame, cruet-stand. [In this sense, usually in pl., casters.] 6. Castor, small wheel or swivel (on which furniture is rolled) Cast forth. Eject, emit, throw out.
Castigate, v. a.
1. Chastise, whip, beat, punish with stripes or the lash, lash, flog. 2. Discipline, correct, punish, chasten. 3. Upbraid, flagellate, fall foul of, dress down, take to task, haul over the coals, censure bitterly, criticise
severely, trim out, call to account. Castigation, n.
1. Whipping, beating, lashing, flagellation, drubbing, flogging, chastisement. 2. Punishment, chastisement, discipline, correction, chastening. 3. Upbraiding, taking to task, lashing, flagellation, trimming, hauling over the coals, dressing down, invective,
censorious assault, berating, denunciation, objurgation. Castigatory, n. (Law.) Trebuchet or trebucket, tumbrel or tumbril, ducking-stool, cucking-stool.
Cast in the teeth. Reproach with, twit with.
Castle, n.
1. Fortress, citadel, stronghold, fortified residence. 2. Rook (in chess). Castle-builder, n. Visionary, dreamer, enthusiast, fanciful projector.
Cast off.
1. Reject, discard, abandon, forsake, renounce, lay aside, cast by, cast away, throw away, throw by, get
rid of.
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