1. Verb form
of Cast
2. Verb
To send or drive by force; to throw; to fling; to hurl; to impel.
3. Verb
To direct or turn, as the eyes.
4. Verb
To drop; to deposit; as, to cast a ballot.
5. Verb
To throw down, as in wrestling.
6. Verb
To throw up, as a mound, or rampart.
7. Verb
To throw off; to eject; to shed; to lose.
8. Verb
To bring forth prematurely; to slink.
9. Verb
To throw out or emit; to exhale.
10. Verb
To cause to fall; to shed; to reflect; to throw; as, to cast a ray upon a screen; to cast light upon a subject.
11. Verb
To impose; to bestow; to rest.
12. Verb
To dismiss; to discard; to cashier.
13. Verb
To compute; to reckon; to calculate; as, to cast a horoscope.
14. Verb
To contrive; to plan.
15. Verb
To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict; as, to be cast in damages.
16. Verb
To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide; as, a casting voice.
17. Verb
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.
18. Verb
To stereotype or electrotype.
19. Verb
To fix, distribute, or allot, as the parts of a play among actors; also to assign (an actor) for a part.
20. Verb
To throw, as a line in angling, esp, with a fly hook.
21. Verb
To turn the head of a vessel around from the wind in getting under weigh.
22. Verb
To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan; as, to cast about for reasons.
23. Verb
To calculate; to compute.
24. Verb
To receive form or shape in a mold.
25. Verb
To warp; to become twisted out of shape.
26. Verb
To vomit.
27. Unclassified
3d pres. of Cast, for Casteth.
28. Noun
The act of casting or throwing; a throw.
29. Noun
The thing thrown.
30. Noun
The distance to which a thing is or can be thrown.
31. Noun
A throw of dice; hence, a chance or venture.
32. Noun
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.
33. Noun
The act of casting in a mold.
34. Noun
An impression or mold, taken from a thing or person; amold; a pattern.
35. Noun
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.
36. Noun
Form; appearence; mien; air; style; as, a peculiar cast of countenance.
37. Noun
A tendency to any color; a tinge; a shade.
38. Noun
A chance, opportunity, privilege, or advantage; specifically, an opportunity of riding; a lift.
39. Noun
The assignment of parts in a play to the actors.
40. Noun
A flight or a couple or set of hawks let go at one time from the hand.
41. Noun
A stoke, touch, or trick.
42. Noun
A motion or turn, as of the eye; direction; look; glance; squint.
43. Noun
A tube or funnel for conveying metal into a mold.
44. Noun
Four; that is, as many as are thrown into a vessel at once in counting herrings, etc; a warp.
45. Noun
Contrivance; plot, design.
46. Noun
the visual appearance of something or someone; "the delicate cast of his features"
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