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.
2. The act or process of making casts or impressions, or of
shaping metal or plaster in a mold; the act or the process
of pouring molten metal into a mold.
3. That which is cast in a mold; esp. the mass of metal so
cast; as, a casting in iron; bronze casting.
4. The warping of a board. --Brande & C.
5. The act of casting off, or that which is cast off, as
skin, feathers, excrement, etc.
{Casting of draperies}, the proper distribution of the folds
of garments, in painting and sculpture.
{Casting line} (Fishing), the leader; also, sometimes applied
to the long reel line.
{Casting net}, a net which is cast and drawn, in distinction
from a net that is set and left.
{Casting voice}, {Casting vote}, the decisive vote of a
presiding officer, when the votes of the assembly or house
are equally divided. ``When there was an equal vote, the
governor had the casting voice.'' --B. Trumbull.