CPage 82
- English Word Cast Definition The assignment of parts in a play to the actors.
- English Word Cast Definition A flight or a couple or set of hawks let go at one time from the hand.
- English Word Cast Definition A stoke, touch, or trick.
- English Word Cast Definition A motion or turn, as of the eye; direction; look; glance; squint.
- English Word Cast Definition A tube or funnel for conveying metal into a mold.
- English Word Cast Definition Four; that is, as many as are thrown into a vessel at once in counting herrings, etc; a warp.
- English Word Cast Definition Contrivance; plot, design.
- English Word Cast iron Definition Highly carbonized iron, the direct product of the blast furnace; -- used for making castings, and for conversion into wrought iron and steel. It can not be welded or forged, is brittle, and sometimes very hard. Besides carbon, it contains sulphur, phosphorus, silica, etc.
- English Word Cast steel Definition See Cast steel, under Steel.
- English Word Cast-iron Definition Made of cast iron. Hence, Fig.: like cast iron; hardy; unyielding.
- English Word Cast-off Definition Cast or laid aside; as, cast-off clothes.
- English Word Castalian Definition Of or pertaining to Castalia, a mythical fountain of inspiration on Mt. Parnassus sacred to the Muses.
- English Word Castanea Definition A genus of nut-bearing trees or shrubs including the chestnut and chinquapin.
- English Word Castanet Definition See Castanets.
- English Word Castanets Definition Two small, concave shells of ivory or hard wood, shaped like spoons, fastened to the thumb, and beaten together with the middle finger; -- used by the Spaniards and Moors as an accompaniment to their dance and guitars.
- English Word Castaway Definition One who, or that which, is cast away or shipwrecked.
- English Word Castaway Definition One who is ruined; one who has made moral shipwreck; a reprobate.
- English Word Castaway Definition Of no value; rejected; useless.
- English Word Caste Definition One of the hereditary classes into which the Hindoos are divided according to the laws of Brahmanism.
- English Word Caste Definition A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly hold intercourse among themselves.
- English Word Castellan Definition A governor or warden of a castle.
- English Word Castellanies Definition of Castellany
- English Word Castellany Definition The lordship of a castle; the extent of land and jurisdiction appertaining to a castle.
- English Word Castellated Definition Inclosed within a building; as, a fountain or cistern castellated.
- English Word Castellated Definition Furnished with turrets and battlements, like a castle; built in the style of a castle.
- English Word Castellation Definition The act of making into a castle.
- English Word Caster Definition One who casts; as, caster of stones, etc. ; a caster of cannon; a caster of accounts.
- English Word Caster Definition A vial, cruet, or other small vessel, used to contain condiments at the table; as, a set of casters.
- English Word Caster Definition A stand to hold a set of cruets.
- English Word Caster Definition A small wheel on a swivel, on which furniture is supported and moved.