Definition of cast

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Cast (v. t.) To cause to fall; to shed; to reflect; to throw; as, to cast a ray upon a screen; to cast light upon a subject..

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Air Bladder :: Air bladder () A sac or bladder full of air in an animal or plant; also an air hole in a casting.
Drawbridge :: Drawbridge (n.) A bridge of which either the whole or a part is made to be raised up, let down, or drawn or turned aside, to admit or hinder communication at pleasure, as before the gate of a town or castle, or over a navigable river or canal..
Castaway :: Castaway (n.) One who is ruined; one who has made moral shipwreck; a reprobate.
Daff :: Daff (v. t.) To cast aside; to put off; to doff.
Core :: Core (n.) The prtion of a mold which shapes the interior of a cylinder, tube, or other hollow casting, or which makes a hole in or through a casting; a part of the mold, made separate from and inserted in it, for shaping some part of the casting, the form of which is not determined by that of the pattern..
Castile Soap :: Castile soap () A kind of fine, hard, white or mottled soap, made with olive oil and soda; also, a soap made in imitation of the above-described soap..
Oilseed :: Oilseed (n.) Seed from which oil is expressed, as the castor bean; also, the plant yielding such seed. See Castor bean..
Space :: Space (n.) A small piece of metal cast lower than a face type, so as not to receive the ink in printing, -- used to separate words or letters..
Decastyle :: Decastyle (n.) A portico having ten pillars or columns in front.
Retort :: Retort (v. t.) A vessel in which substances are subjected to distillation or decomposition by heat. It is made of different forms and materials for different uses, as a bulb of glass with a curved beak to enter a receiver for general chemical operations, or a cylinder or semicylinder of cast iron for the manufacture of gas in gas works..
Hurl :: Hurl (n.) The act of hurling or throwing with violence; a cast; a fling.
Caster :: Caster (n.) One who casts; as, caster of stones, etc. ; a caster of cannon; a caster of accounts..
Cast :: Cast (n.) A throw of dice; hence, a chance or venture..
Gangway :: Gangway (v. i.) That part of the spar deck of a vessel on each side of the booms, from the quarter-deck to the forecastle; -- more properly termed the waist..
Castling :: Castling (n.) That which is cast or brought forth prematurely; an abortion.
Deject :: Deject (v. t.) To cast down.
Blowhole :: Blowhole (n.) An air hole in a casting.
Loam :: Loam (n.) A mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making molds for large castings, often without a pattern..
Register :: Register (n.) The inner part of the mold in which types are cast.
Spay :: Spay (v. t.) To remove or extirpate the ovaries of, as a sow or a bitch; to castrate (a female animal)..
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