Cast

kast, v.t. to throw or fling: to throw off, shed, drop: to throw down: to throw together or reckon: to mould or shape: ( B. ) to consider, to cast or throw up.— v.i. to warp:— pa.t. and pa.p. cast.— n. act of casting: a throw of anything, as the sounding-lead, a fishing-line: the thing thrown, esp. in angling: the distance thrown: a motion, turn, or squint, as of the eye: a chance: a mould: the form received from a mould: manner, stamp, or quality: a shade of colour, a degree of guilt, .: the a ignment of the various parts of a play to the several actors: the company of actors to whom such have been a igned.— n. Cast′away , one cast away, an outcast.— adj. worthle , rejected.— adjs. Cast ( B. ), Cast′ed ( Shak. ), cast off.— ns. Cast′ing , act of casting or moulding: that which is cast: a mould; Cast′ing-net , a species of net for fishing; Cast′ing-vote , the voice or vote of the president of a meeting, by which he is enabled, when the other votes are equally divided, to cast the balance on the one side or the other; Cast′ing-weight , the weight which makes the balance cast or turn when exactly poised.— adj. Cast′-off , laid aside or rejected.— n. anything thrown aside.— n. Cast′-steel , steel that has been melted, cast into ingots, and rolled out into bars.— Cast about , to contrive, to look about, to search for, as game: ( B. ) to turn, to go round; Cast a nativity , to make an astrological calculation; Cast anchor , to moor a ship; Cast an eye , a glance , to look at; Cast a thing in one's teeth , to bring a reproach against some one; Cast away , to wreck, to waste; Cast down , to deject or depre in mind: to turn the eyes downward; Cast loose , to set loose or adrift; Cast up , to throw up, to bring up anything as a reproach.— Be cast ( law ), to be defeated.— The last cast , the last venture. [Scand.; as Ice. kasta , to throw.]