\Cast\ (k[.a]st), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cast}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Casting}.] [Cf. Dan. kaste, Icel. & Sw. kasta; perh. akin
to L. {gerere} to bear, carry. E. jest.]
1. To send or drive by force; to throw; to fling; to hurl; to
   impel.
         Uzziah prepared . . . slings to cast stones. --2
                                               Chron. xxvi.
                                               14.
         Cast thy garment about thee, and follow me. --Acts.
                                               xii. 8.
         We must be cast upon a certain island. --Acts.
                                               xxvii. 26.
2. To direct or turn, as the eyes.
         How earnestly he cast his eyes upon me! --Shak.
3. To drop; to deposit; as, to cast a ballot.
4. To throw down, as in wrestling. --Shak.
5. To throw up, as a mound, or rampart.
         Thine enemies shall cast a trench [bank] about thee.
                                               --Luke xix.
                                               48.
6. To throw off; to eject; to shed; to lose.
         His filth within being cast.          --Shak.
         Neither shall your vine cast her fruit. --Mal. iii.
                                               11
         The creatures that cast the skin are the snake, the
         viper, etc.                           --Bacon.
7. To bring forth prematurely; to slink.
         Thy she-goats have not cast their young. --Gen. xxi.
                                               38.
8. To throw out or emit; to exhale. [Obs.]
         This . . . casts a sulphureous smell. --Woodward.
9. To cause to fall; to shed; to reflect; to throw; as, to
   cast a ray upon a screen; to cast light upon a subject.
10. To impose; to bestow; to rest.
          The government I cast upon my brother. --Shak.
          Cast thy burden upon the Lord.       --Ps. iv. 22.
11. To dismiss; to discard; to cashier. [Obs.]
          The state can not with safety cast him.
12. To compute; to reckon; to calculate; as, to cast a
    horoscope. ``Let it be cast and paid.'' --Shak.
          You cast the event of war, my noble lord. --Shak.
13. To contrive; to plan. [Archaic]
          The cloister . . . had, I doubt not, been cast for
          [an orange-house].                   --Sir W.
                                               Temple.
14. To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict;
    as, to be cast in damages.
          She was cast to be hanged.           --Jeffrey.
          Were the case referred to any competent judge, they
          would inevitably be cast.            --Dr. H. More.
15. To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to
    make preponderate; to decide; as, a casting voice.
          How much interest casts the balance in cases
          dubious!                             --South.
16. 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.
17. (Print.) To stereotype or electrotype.
18. To fix, distribute, or allot, as the parts of a play
    among actors; also to assign (an actor) for a part.
          Our parts in the other world will be new cast.
                                               --Addison.
{To cast anchor} (Naut.) See under {Anchor}.
{To cast a horoscope}, to calculate it.
{To cast a} {horse, sheep}, or other animal, to throw with
   the feet upwards, in such a manner as to prevent its
   rising 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\, 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\,
3d pres. of {Cast}, for Casteth. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

\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.
3. The distance to which a thing is or can be thrown. ``About
   a stone's cast.'' --Luke xxii. 41.
4. A throw of dice; hence, a chance or venture.
         An even cast whether the army should march this way
         or that way. --Sowth.
         I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the
         hazard of the die.                    --Shak.
5. 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.
6. The act of casting in a mold.
         And why such daily cast of brazen cannon. --Shak.
7. An impression or mold, taken from a thing or person;
   amold; a pattern.
8. 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.
9. Form; appearence; mien; air; style; as, a peculiar cast of
   countenance. ``A neat cast of verse.'' --Pope.
         An heroic poem, but in another cast and figure.
                                               --Prior.
         And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied
         o'er with the pale cast of thought.   --Shak.
10. A tendency to any color; a tinge; a shade.
          Gray with a cast of green.           --Woodward.
11. A chance, opportunity, privilege, or advantage;
    specifically, an opportunity of riding; a lift. [Scotch]
          We bargained with the driver to give us a cast to
          the next stage.                      --Smollett.
          If we had the cast o' a cart to bring it. --Sir W.
                                               Scott.
12. The assignment of parts in a play to the actors.
13. (Falconary) A flight or a couple or set of hawks let go
    at one time from the hand. --Grabb.
          As when a cast of falcons make their flight.
                                               --Spenser.
14. A stoke, touch, or trick. [Obs.]
          This was a cast of Wood's politics; for his
          information was wholly false.        --Swift.
15. A motion or turn, as of the eye; direction; look; glance;
    squint.
          The cast of the eye is a gesture of aversion.
                                               --Bacon.
          And let you see with one cast of an eye. --Addison.
          This freakish, elvish cast came into the child's
          eye.                                 --Hawthorne.
16. A tube or funnel for conveying metal into a mold.
17. Four; that is, as many as are thrown into a vessel at
    once in counting herrings, etc; a warp.
18. Contrivance; plot, design. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
{A cast of the eye}, a slight squint or strabismus.
{Renal cast} (Med.), microscopic bodies found in the urine of
   persons affected with disease of the kidneys; -- so called
   because they are formed of matter deposited in, and
   preserving the outline of, the renal tubes.
{The last cast}, the last throw of the dice or last effort,
   on which every thing is ventured; the last chance.