cassoumba (kasomba)

A pigment made in Amboyna, Moluccas, from the burnt capsules of the plant Sterculia Ba langhas. ca owary (kas'ō-wa-ri), n.; pl. ca owaries (-riz). [= F. casoar = Sp. casoario, casobar, ca suel = It. casuario = D. casuaar, kasuaris = G. Dan. Sw. kasuar (NL. casuarius ), Ca owary ( Casuarius gale at us ). of the genus Casuarius, subfamily Casuariina, and family Casuariidæ, inhabiting Australia and asuariida, inhabiting A the Papuan islands. It resembles the ostrich, and is nearly as large, but has shorter and thicker legs in pro portion, and three toes. It is characterized by a ratite sternum, plumage with large aftershafts, rudimentary wings represented externally by several spine-like proce es, fleshy caruncles or lappets upon the throat, and a large casque or helmet upon the head. It runs with great rapidity, outstripping the swiftest horse. The ca owary leaves its few eggs to be hatched by the heat of the sun. ca umunar (kas-i-mü'när), n. [E. Ind.] An aromatic root used as a tonic and stimulant, obtained from Zingiber Ca umunar. cast1 (kast), v.; pret. and pp. cast, ppr. casting. [ Thei brought thre mantels furred with ermyn, and the cloth was scarlet, and the i caste hem vpon the two kynges. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 607. slings to cast stones. 2 Chron. xxvi. 14. Both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep. Ps. lxxvi. 6. Uzziah prepared for them. Sir, I forgive you heartily, And all your wrong to me I cast behind me. Fletcher, Humorous Lieutenant, v. 3. I shall desire all indifferent eyes to judge whether these men do not endeavour to cast unjust envy upon me. Milton , On Def. of Humb. Remonst. Round his soul her net she strove to cast , Almost despite herself. William Morris, Earthly Paradise, III. 107. 2. To throw with violence or force; fling; hurl: usually with some adjunct, such as away , down, into, off , out , etc. See phrases below. On the heighte of that Pynacle, the Jewes setten Seynt Jame, and casted him down to the Erthe, that first was Bi chopp of Jerusalē. Mandeville , Travels, p. 87. Noting thereon the casting downe of the Forts on Tigris, and amongst them the Temple of Belus there erected. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 77. And the Lord turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red Sea. Ex. x. 19. Specifically-3. To throw to the ground, as in wrestling; especially, to throw a horse or other animal to the ground, as in training, or for a surgical operation or slaughter. IMG:content-3236.png:[blocks in formation] cast Eying him, As eyes the butcher the cast panting ox That feels his fate is come, nor struggles more. Browning , Ring and Book, II. 25. 4t. To decide or bring in a verdict against, as in a lawsuit; condemn as guilty; hence, to defeat. If the whole power of my estate can cast him, He never shall obtain me. Middle ton (and others ), The Widow, ii. 1. The Commons by far the greater number cast him; the Lords, after they had been satisfied in a full discourse by the Kings Solicitor, and the opinions of many Judges de livered in their House, agreed likewise to the Sentence of Treason. Milton , Eikon ok las tes, ii. Were the case referred to any competent judge, they would inevitably be cast. Decay of Christian Piety. His father left him fourscore pounds a year; but he has cast and been cast so often, that he is not now worth thirty. Add is on, Sir Roger at the A izes. 5t. To disband or break up (a regiment or company); hence, to dismi ; reject; cashier; discard. When a company is cast , yet the captain still retains the title of captain. Chapman , All Fools, v. 1. The state Cannot with safety cast him. Shak . , Othello, i. 1. His regiment is cast , that is most certain, And his command in the castle given away. Fletcher, Double Marriage, i. L. 6. To shed or throw off; part with; lose: as, trees cast their fruit; a serpent casts his skin; "to cast the rags of sin," Dryden; " casted slough," Shak., Hen. V., iv. 1. He cast al his colour and bi-com pale, and eft red as rose in a litel while. William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 881. Your colt's tooth is not cast yet. IMG:content-3237.png:[graphic] IMG:content-3238.png:[blocks in formation] Woodward . 9t. To emit or give out. This casts a sulphureous smell. 10. To bestow; confer (upon) or transfer (to). The government I cast upon my brother. Shak., Tempest, i. 2. 11. To turn; direct: as, to cast a look or glance of the eye. She kneel'd, and, saint-like, Cast her fair eyes to heaven, and pray'd devoutly. Shak., Hen. VIII., iv. 1. In casting his eyes about, the commodore beheld that the shore abounded with oysters. Irving , Knickerbocker, p. 123. 12t. Reflexive: To think or propose to (one's self); intend. And cast him to lyue In ydelne e and in ese and by others trauayle. Piers Plowman (C), x. 151. Who that cast hym thys reule for to kepре, Mot con for me hym like in euery thyng, Where he shall byde, vnto the felyshype. Political Poems , etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 26. 13t. To consider; think out; hence, to plan; contrive; arrange. He that casteth all doubts, shal neuer be resolued in any thing. Lyly , Euphues and his England, p. 354. Cast it also that you may have rooms both for summer and winter. Bacon , Building. I'll do't with ease, I have cast it all. B. Jonson, Volpone, iv. L The plot was cast by me, to make thee jealous. Fletcher, Spanish Curate, v. 2 I serv'd you faithfully, And cast your plots but to preserve your credit. Fletcher and Shirley , Night-Walker, v. 2 The cloister would have been proper for an orange. house; and had, I doubt not, been cast for that purpose. Sir W. Temple . I shall cast what I have to say under two principal heads. Add is on , Charge to the Jury. 14. The at .: (a) To distribute or allot the parts among the actors: said of a play: as, to " cast the 'Merchant of Venice," Add is on . I should have thought, now, that it [the piece] might have been cast (as the actors call it) better at Drury-lane. Sheridan, The Critic, i. 1. (b) To a ign a certain part or rôle to: as, to cast an actre for the part of Portia.-15. Το find or ascertain by computation; compute; reckon; calculate: as, to cast accounts; to cast a nativity. She cast my destiny, I being but a child. B. Jonson , Poetaster, iii. 1. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary cast He is the Faustus, That casteth figures and can conjure. B. Jonson, Alchemist, iv. 4. You cast the event of war, my noble lord, And summ'd the account of chance. Shak ., 2 Hen. IV., i. 1. The mariner was left to creep along the coast, while the astronomer was casting nativities. Everett, Orations, I. 248. 16. To bring forth abortively. Thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young. Gen. xxx i. 38. 17. To found; form into a particular shape or object, as liquid metal, by pouring into a mold. Whom I've power to melt, And cast in any mould. B. Jonson, Cat i line, i. 1. 18. To form by founding; make by pouring molten matter into a mold. Thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it. Ex. xxv. 12. 19. In falconry , to place (a hawk) upon his perch.-20. To winnow (grain) by throwing in the air, or from one side of a barn or threshing-floor to the other. To be cast down, to be depre ed or dejected. Why art thou cast down, O my soul? Tell your master not to be cast down by this. Ps. xlii. 5. 847 Cast up the poison that infects thy mind. Dryden. (c) To twit or upbraid with; recall to one's notice for the purpose of annoying: with to . Lady W.'s maid is always casting up to me how happy her lord and ladyship is. Lever . (d) To raise; throw up. Throws down one mountain to cast up a higher. Shak ., Pericles, i. 4. Buried him in the ground, and cast vp an high hill ouer him. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 87. To cast upon, to refer to. If things were cast upon this i ue, that God should never prevent sin till man deserved it, the best would sin and sin for ever. South . To cast (a person's) watert, to examine urine in diagnosing a disease. If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease. Shak., Macbeth, v. 3. =Syn. Fling, etc. See hurl. II. in trans. 11. To throw; shoot. At louers, lowpes, Archers had plente, To cast , draw, and shete, the diffence to be That non wordly man myght no wyse it take. Rom . of Partenay (E. Ě. T. S.), 1. 1176. To cast a ballot. See ballot. - To cast a colt's tooth. See colt. To cast a nativity. See nativity. - To cast anchor, to moor a ve el by letting the anchor or anchors drop. See anchor1. To cast a point of traverse, in navigation, to prick down on a chart the point of the compa any land bears from you. E. Phillips, 1706. - To cast aside, to dismi or reject as usele or inconvenient. This poor gown I will not cast aside Until himself arise a living man, And bid me cast it. Tennyson, Geraint. To cast away. (a) To reject. Lev. xxvi. 44. (6) Το throw away; lavish or waste by profusion; turn to no use: as, to cast away life; to cast away a golden opportunity. She has cast away herself, it is to be fear'd, Against her uncle's will, nay, any consent, But out of a mere neglect, and spite to herself, Married suddenly without any advice. Beau. and Fl ., Wit at Several Weapons, v. 2. (c) To wreck: as, the ship was cast away on the coast of Africa. Cast away , and sunk, on Good win Sands. Shak., K. John, v. 5. The last of Nouember, saith May, we departed from Laguna in Hispaniola, and the seuenteenth of December following, we were cast away vpon the North-west of the Bermudas. Quoted in Capt . John Smith , True Travels, II. 118. To cast behind the back. See back1 . To cast by, to reject; fling or throw by. - To cast forth, to throw out or reject, as from an inclosed place or confined space; emit or send out. He shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Leb IMG:content-3240.png:[blocks in formation] Such an omniscient church we wish indeed; 'Twere worth both Testaments, cast in the creed. Dryden, Religio Laici. To cast in one's lot with, to share the fate or fortune of. To cast in the teeth of, to upbraid with; charge or twit with. To cast lots. See lot. - To cast off. (a) To discard or reject; drive away. The prince will, in the perfectne of time, Cast off his followers. Shak ., 2 Hen. IV., iv. 4. He may cast you off , and with you his life. Beau , and Fl . , Laws of Candy, ii. 1. (b) Naut., to unloose or let go: as, to cast off a ve el in tow. (c) In hunting, to leave behind, as dogs; set loose or free. Away he scours,... casts off the dogs, and gains a wood. Sir R. L'Estrange. His falconer cast off one falcon after the heron, and the earl another. Strutt , Sports and Pastimes, p. 87. (d) In knitting , to finish (the work) at any part by working off the stitches, so that it remains firm and permanent. (e) In printing , to compute the space required for each column or division of, as a table, a piece of music, or the like, so that the matter furnished may properly fit the space at command. To cast off copy, in printing , to compute the number of words in written copy, in order to find the space, or the number of pages, which the matter will fill when in type. To cast on. (a) To refer or resign to. South . (b) In knitting , to begin (the work) by putting the yarn, cotton, or the like upon the needles in loops or stitches. - To cast out. (a) To reject or turn out. Thy brat hath been cast out, No father owning it. Shak ., W. T., iii. 2. (b) To speak or give vent to. Add is on. - To cast the balance. See balance. To cast the cavel or kevel. See cavel.- To cast the draperies, in the fine arts, to dispose the folds of the garments with which the figures in a picture are clothed; dispose the main lines of a picture generally. To cast the fly, to angle with rod and artificial lure, in distinction from fishing with bait or a hand-line. To cast the lead, to heave the lead. See lead. To cast up. (a) To compute; reckon; calculate. Casting up the cost beforehand. Dryden. The Mind an a i ans are no good Accomptants; therefore the Chinese that live here, do cast up their Accompts for them. Dampier , Voyages, I. 360. Now casting up the Store, and finding sufficient till the next harvest, the feare of starving was abandoned. Quoted in Capt . John Smith , True Travels, I. 222. (b) To eject; vomit. Their villany goes against my weak stomach, and therefore I must cast it up. Shak., Hen, V., iii. 2. 21. To throw up; vomit. These verses too, a poison on 'em! I cannot abide them, B. Jonson, Poetaster, i. 1. 3. To turn or revolve something in the mind; ponder; consider; scheme. Hast thou cast how to accomplish it? Marlowe, Edward II., v. 4. The best way to represent to life the manifold use of friendship is to cast and see how many things there are which a man cannot do himself. Bacon, Friendship. This way and that I cast to save my friends. Pope, 4. To make calculations; sum up accounts. Oh! who would cast and balance at a desk? Tennyson, Audley Court. 5. To warp; become twisted or distorted. Stuff is said to cast or warp when it alters its flat- ne or straightne . J. Mozon , Mechanical Exercises. 6. To lose color; fade. [Scotch.] -7. To re- ceive form or shape in a mold. A ma that is immediately malleable, and will not run thin, so as to cast and mould. Woodward, Fo ils. 8. Naut.: ( a ) To fall off or incline, so as to bring the side to the wind: applied particularly to a ship riding with her head to the wind when her anchor is first loosened in getting under way. ( b ) To tack; put about; wear ship. I cast to seaward again to come with the island in the morning betimes. Roger Bodenham , in Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 35. 9. In hunting , to search for the scent or trail of game. In his work the foxhound is peculiar for dash, and for always being inclined to cast forwards, instinctively appearing to be aware that the fox makes his point to some covert different from that in which he was found. Dogs of Great Britain and America , p. 62. 10. Of bees, to swarm. [Scotch.]-11. Of the sky, to clear up. [Scotch.] To cast about. (a) Naut . , to tack; put about; wear ship. My pilot, having a son in one of those small ve els, entreated me to cast about towards them. Roger Bodenham , in Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 35. (b) In hunting , to go about in different directions in order to discover a lost scent. .. But not a sign of them [the hares in the game of hare and-hound] appears, so now there is nothing for it but to cast about for the scent. T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, i. 7. (c) To consider; search in the mind for some contrivance by which to accomplish one's end; scheme. To cast about how to perform or obtain. Let 's cast about a little, and consider. Bacon . Fletcher, Spanish Curate, ii. 1. Contrive and cast about how to bring such events to pa . Bentley. I... began to cast about , with my usual care and anxiety, for the means of obtaining feasible and safe methods of repeating the famous journey to Palmyra. Bruce , Source of the Nile, Int., p. li. To cast back. (a) To throw the memory back; refer to something past. You cast back for hundreds of years, and rake up every bit of pleasure I ever had in my life. Mrs. Riddell. (6) To return toward some ancestral type or character; show resemblance to a remote ancestor. To cast be yond the moon, to indulge in wild conjectures; conjec Bellaria,... maruailing at such vnaccustomed frownes, began to cast beyond the moone , and to enter into a 1000 sundry thoughts, which way she should offend her husband. Greene, Pandosto, or the Triumph of Time, 1588. To cast off. (a) To loosen a boat from its connection with a pier, ship, or the like, and start it toward another place. (b) In knitting, to slip and bind the last loops from the needles, thus releasing the finished work from them; bind off. To cast on, in knitting, to begin by slipping the loops or stitches on the needle. To cast out, to quarrel; fall out. [Scotch.] - To cast up, to turn up or be forthcoming. Others may be Unionists... by fits and starts;... Unionists when nothing more exciting, or more showy, or more profitable, casts up. R. Choate , Addre es, p. 442. cast cast1 (kast), p. a. [Pp. of cast1, v.] 1. Thrown aside as usele ; rejected; cast-off: as, cast clothes. He hath bought a pair of cast lips of Diana. Shak., As you Like it, iii. 4. You never yet had a meal's meat from my table, Nor, as I remember, from my wardrobe Any cast suit. Beau . and Fl ., Honest Man's Fortune, ii. 3. I deny not but that he may deserve for his pains a cast Doublet. Milton , Apology for Smectymnuus. 2. Condemned: as, "a cast criminal," South. 31. Cashiered; discarded. He's the son Of a poor cast captain, one Octavio. Fletcher, Spanish Curate, i. 1. 4. Faded in color. [Scotch.] -5. Made by founding or casting: as, cast -iron or -steel. See cast - iron.-6t. Rank; vile. Neuer kyld no Kyng, ne no knight yet, That a-counted was kene, but with cast tres on. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 10448. cast1 (kast), n. [ cast1 , v.] 1. The act of casting. Specifically-(a) In fishing : (1) The act of throwing the line on the water. (2) The act of throwing a net. A fisherman stood on the beach, the large square net, with its sinkers of lead, in his right hand, ready for a cast . B. Taylor , Lands of the Saracen, p. 41. (b) In hunting , a search for the scent or trail of game. (c) Naut ., the act of heaving the lead. ... 2. The leader with flies attached, used in angling. Sportsman's Gazetteer.-3. A throw; the distance to which a thing may be thrown; reach; extent. These other com ridinge a softe pase till the i com as nygh as the caste of a ston. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 219. Frome thens descendynge aboute a stones caste , we come to a place where our Sauyour Criste lefte Peter, James, and John. Sir R. Guylforde , Pylgrymage, p. 32. Specifically-4. A throw of dice; hence, a state of chance or hazard. I have set my life upon a cast , And I will stand the hazard of the die. Shak., Rich. III., v. 4. If thou canst not fling what thou wouldst, play thy cast as well as thou canst. Burton , Anat. of Mel., p. 365. In the last war, has it not sometimes been an even cast South. whether the army should march this way or that way? 51. Occasion; opportunity. The end whereof Ile keepe untill another cast . Spenser, F. Q., VI. viii. 51. 6t. A contrivance; plot; design. The derke tresoun and the castes olde. Hadde the i knowe the kast of the Kyng stern, They had kept well his cum me with care full dintes. A lisa under of Macedoine (E. E. T. S.), 1. 146. 71. A stroke; a touch; a trick. Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 1610. It hath been the cast of all traitors to pretend nothing against the king's person. Latimer , 4th Serm. bef. Edw. VI., 1549. Another cast of their politicks was that of endeavouring to impeach an innocent lady. Swift . 8. Motion or turn (of the eye); direction, look, or glance; hence, a slight squint: as, to have a cast in one's eye. They let you see with one cast of an eye. Add is on, Ancient Medals. 9. A twist or contortion. [Scotch.] -10. Bent; tendency. There is such a mirthful cast in his behaviour, that he is rather beloved than esteemed. Add is on . 11. Manner; outward appearance; air; mien; style. New names, new dre ings, and the modern cast . Sir J. Denham , To Sir R. Fanshaw. 12. A tinge; a shade or trace; a slight coloring, or a slight degree of a color: as, a cast of green. The native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. Shak., Hamlet, iii. 1. There was a soft and pensive grace, A cast of thought upon her face, That suited well the forehead high, The eyelash dark, and downcast eye. Scott , Rokeby, iv. 5. 13. That which is formed by founding; anything shaped in or as if in a mold while in a fluid or plastic state; a casting: often used figuratively. Something of a neat cast of verse. Pope , Letters. Cunning casts in clay. Tennyson , In Memoriam, cxx. 14. An impre ion formed in a mold or matrix; in geol ., the impre ion of an animal of a former epoch left in soft earth which has become stone: as, a cast of a man's face taken in plaster; a cast of a trilobite. At Valdivia there is some sandstone with imperfect casts of shells, which po ibly may belong to the recent period. Darwin, Geol. Observations, ii. 414. IMG:content-3241.png:[blocks in formation] Hence-15. An impre ion in general; an cast2+ (kast), n. The older English spelling of imparted or derived appearance, character, or characteristic; stamp. IMG:content-3242.png:[merged small][ocr errors][merged small] And where the two contrived their daughter's good, Lies the hawk's cast , the mole has made his run. Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. 19. An a ignment of the parts of a play to the several actors; the company of actors to whom the parts of a play are a igned: as, the play was produced with a very strong cast .-20. An allowance; an amount given, as of food: as, a cast of hay for the horses. cast. Contracted form of casteth , third person singular present tense of cast . castaldyt, n. [Also castaldie (Minsheu), and improp. castaldick (Kersey), castaldia , gastaldia (> It. castaldia ), the office of a prefect gastaldio ( n- ) (It. castaldione ), a prefect, stew cast elt, a. A Middle English variant of chaste . to obtain or po e (po e ing), gastaldan , ard, prob. gastalds , in comp. striving caste2 (kast), n. [Formerly cast , only recently Iridinida , confined to the fresh waters of The best-known species is C. ambigua. The genus was founded by La- marck in 1819.-2. A genus of chætopodous annelids, of the family Hesionida .-3. Agenus of coleopterous insects. Laporte , 1838.-4. A genus of lepidopterous insects. Boisduval , 1858. Cast ali an (kas-tali an), a . [L. Castalis , be- longing to Castalia , Gr. Κασταλία, a mythical fountain of inspiration on Mount Parna us, sacred to the Muses, whose waters had the power of inspiring those who drank them; per- Whose made the swifter flight, whose could mount highest. Middle ton and Rowley , Spanish Gypsy, ii. 2. The bar by turns, and none the rest outgo So far, but that the best are measuring casts, Their emulation and their pastime lasts. itie, was very zealous, is now at the last cast become most faithle e. Lyly, Euphues, Anat. of Wit, p. 89. Pertaining to Castalia. Castanea (kas-tane-a), n. [L., tree, a chestnut: see chesten, chestnut.] A ge- nus of plants, natural order Cupuliferæ , con- sisting of trees or shrubs with straight-veined leaves and naked unisexual flowers, the male in catkins and the female solitary. The nuts are contained in a prickly 4-valved envelop. Only two species are known, the common chestnut, C. vesca , and the chin- kapin, C. pumila . See cut under chestnut . Cast an ell a (kas-ta-nel'ä), n. [NL., tane a , a chestnut, + dim. -ell a.] The typical genus of radiolarians of the family Castanellidæ . Castanellidæ (kas-ta-nel'i-dē), n. pl . [NL., Cast an ell a + -ida . ] A family of tripy lean ra- diolarians with a fenestrated shell which is spherical, simple, and composed of solid rods, and has at one point a large principal opening, often armed with coronal spicules, and with or without radial spicules. It contains such gen- era as Cast an ell a , Castanidium , etc. cast a neo us (kas-tā nē-us), a. [L. as if * cas- tane us , castanea , a chestnut: see Castanea .] Chestnut-colored; of a reddish or brownish-red color. castanet (kas'ta-net), n. [F. castagnette, cast añeta (=Pg. cast an het a ), a castanet, cast aña = Pg. castanha , castanea, a chestnut; from the resemblance.] One of a pair of slightly concave spoon-shaped shells of ivory or hard wood, loosely fas- tened together at the base, and used (slung over the thumb) in beating time to music or dancing. Castanets are used by the Spaniards and Moors as an accompaniment to their dances and guitars, and are now widely introduced among other na- tions, with some variations of form. Cast an ops is (kas-ta-nop'- IMG:content-3243.png:[blocks in formation] To be subjugated by an inferior caste was a degradation Macaulay, Hist. Eng. D. W. Ro , German Land-holding, Notes, p. 134. Her manner had not that repose Which stamps the caste of Vere de Vere. lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway . 1 Cor. ix. 27. The room lay in a high turret of the castellated abbey. Poe , Tales, I. 461. gare (> E. purge ), pur us , pure, + agere . Older E. forms from castigare are chasten and chas- tise, q. v.] 1. To chastise; punish by stripes; correct or punish, in general. If thou didst put this sour-cold habit on To castigate thy pride, 't were well. 2. To subject to a severe and critical scrutiny; criticize for the purpose of correcting; emend: as, to castigate the text of an author. He had adjusted and castigated the then Latin Vulgate. Bentley, Letters, p. 237. A castigated copy of it [a work of Cervantes] was printed by Arrieta. Ticknor , Span. Lit., II. 122. Ric . We have been used too long like hawks already. Ubald . We are not so high in our flesh now to need cast- ing. Mas singer, The Picture, v. 1. 8t. Contrivance; distribution; arrangement. Distributio is that useful casting of all rooms for office, entertainment, or pleasure. Wotton , Elem, of Architecture. 9. In sail- making , the calculated dimensions tern. Johnson . castellation (kas-te-lā'shon), n. [ cas- tellatio (n-), cas tell are : see castellated .] 1. The state of being castellated.-2. The act of fortifying a house and rendering it a castle, or of giving it the appearance of a castle by pro- viding it with battlements, etc. castellet (kas'te-let), n. [ castelet , castelet , F. châtelet = Pr. castelet = Sp. castil- lejo = Pg. castellejo , castellete = It. cas tel let to , castelletum , like castellulum , dim. of L. cas- tellum, a castle: see castle and -et .] A small castle; a peel-tower or other fortified residence too small to rank as a castle. Also written cas- tlet. [Rare.] castelryt, n. castent. Obsolete past participle of cast1. Chaucer. caster (kas'ter), n. [ castere ; v ., +-er1.] 1. One who casts. (a) One who throws dice; a gambler. The jovial caster's set, and seven's the nick, Or-done!- a you sand on the coming trick. Byron , Eng. Bards and Scotch Reviewers. (b) One who computes; a calculator; especially, a calcu- In licne e of a deuynour and of a fals castere he eymeth Wyclif , Prov. xxiii. 7 (Oxf.). -caster. A suffix in place-names, appearing in several other forms, as -cester, -chester. See chester. Table-leg Caster, caster-wheel (kas'tėr-hwēl), n. having antifriction A wheel which turns about an rollers, c, c. axis held in a stock, which itself turns on a pivot or vertical spindle placed at a considerable distance in front of the bearing- point of the face of the wheel: a construction which enables the wheel to swerve readily to either side of the line of draft. It is a very com- mon attachment to agricultural implements, as plows, harvesters, etc. see- ation .] The act of castigating. (a) Punish- ment by whipping; correction; chastisement; discipline. Violent events do not always argue the anger of God; even death itself is, to his servants, a fatherly castigation . Bp. Hall , The Seduced Prophet. The keenest castigation of her slanderers. Irving . (b) Critical scrutiny and emendation; correction of tex- Sp. Sp. Pg. Pg. cast igad or , castigator , castigare : see castigate .] One who castigates or corrects. castigatory (kasti-ga-to-ri), a. and n. [L. castigator i us , castigator , a corrector: see cas- tigator .] tigator .] I. a. Serving to castigate; tending Penalties either probatory, castigatory , or exem- plary. Abp . Bramhall , Against Hobbes. II. n.; pl. cas tig a tories (-riz). Something that serves to castigate; specifically, an apparatus formerly used in punishing scolds. Also called ducking - stool and trebucket . Castilian (kas-til'ian), a . and n. [= F. Castil- lan = Pg . Castelhano , Castella no , Castilla , Castile; so called from the numerous forts ( cas- tillos : see castle ) erected on the frontiers.] I. a . Pertaining to Castile (formerly written Cas- tille ), a former kingdom in the central part of Spain, now divided into the provinces of Old and New Castile. - Castilian furnace. See furnace. as in dealing cards. Tai . I'd beastly casting , Jack. Jack . O, abominable, sir! you had the scurviest hand. Middle ton, Your Five Gallants, iv. 2. Chilled casting, a metal casting the surface of which has been hardened either by casting in an iron mold or by exposure while red-hot to sudden cooling by air or water, or by contact with any good conductor which is at a com- casting-box (kas'ting-boks), n. 1. In founding , a flask which holds the mold.-21. Probably, a small box used like a casting-bottle. They have a chain, My rings, my casting - box of gold, my purse too. Fletcher and Shirley , Night-Walker, iii. 5. Same as Spanish botanist.) A large genus of herb a- ceo us plants, natural order Scrophulariaceæ , mostly perennials, natives of North America and Asia. There are about 25 species in the United States. Their yellow, purple, or scarlet flowers are in terminal spikes, with large colored bracts often more showy than the flowers. C. coccinea , the common species of the At- lantic States, is popularly known as painted - cup . Castilloa (kas-ti-lō'ä), n. [NL., Castilla , Castile: see Castilian .] A genus of plants, of one or two arboreous species, natives of trop i- cal America, of the natural order Urticaceæ , and allied to the breadfruit. C. elastic a is valuable as the source of the india-rubber of Central America. The milky juice of the tree is obtained by incisions in the bark, and is coagulated by the addition of alum or of a decoc- tion of the moon-plant, Calo nyc tion speciosum . A large tree is said to yield eight gallons of milk when first cut, each gallon making about two pounds of rubber. casting (kas'ting), n. [ME. casting ; verbal n. of cast1 , v.] 1. The act or proce of founding. It is no coining, sir, 2. In the fine arts , the proce of taking casts or impre ions of statues, medals, etc., in clay, pitch, plaster, or fused metal.-3. That which has been cast, or formed by running melted metal into a mold of any desired form. When used without qualification, the word usually de- notes a casting of iron.-4. Anything appear- ing as if cast in a mold; specifically, a string- shaped ma of earth voided by an earthworm; I resolved... to weigh all the castings thrown up within a given time in a measured space, instead of ascer- taining the rate at which objects left on the surface were buried by worms. Darwin, The Earth-worm, Have helpt him to a place amongst the rest. B. Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, iv. 4. An iron casting-ladle (kas'ting-lā -lā" dl), n. ladle with handles, used to pour molten metal into a mold. casting-net (kas'ting-net), n. A net which is cast and immediately drawn, in distinction from one which is set. casting-pre (kas'ting-pres), n . A pre in which metal is cast under pre ure. casting-slab (kas'ting-slab), n. In gla - manuf ., the slab or plate of a casting-table. casting-table (kasting-tā"bl) , In gla - IMG:content-3244.png:[graphic][merged small] manuf . , a table on which molten gla is poured in making plate-gla . Its top is a large polished plate of metal, commonly iron, having metal flanges of the same depth as the thickne of the gla , to keep the gla from running off at the sides. A ma ive copper cylin- der extends entirely acro the table, resting on the side flanges, and this, being set in motion, spreads the gla out into a sheet of uniform breadth and thickne . casting-vote (kas'ting-vōt'), n. The vote of a presiding officer in an a embly or council, thrown to decide a question when the votes cast by the members are equally divided. If the pre- siding officer is a member of the body, he may give the cast- ing-vote, although he has, by already voting as a mem- ber, created the tie or equal division. [Commonly written as two words.] A man's true merit 'tis not hard to find; But each man's secret standard in his mind, That casting - weight pride adds to emptine , This, who can gratify, for who can gue ? Pope , Prol. to Satires, 1. 177. I. n. Iron