Definition of casting

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Casting (n.) The act of one who casts or throws, as in fishing..

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Gleamy :: Gleamy (a.) Darting beams of light; casting light in rays; flashing; coruscating.
Burr :: Burr (n.) The thin edge or ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal, as in turning, engraving, pressing, etc.; also, the rough neck left on a bullet in casting..
Exuviation :: Exuviation (n.) The rejecting or casting off of some part, more particularly, the outer cuticular layer, as the shells of crustaceans, skins of snakes, etc.; molting; ecdysis..
Cleromancy :: Cleromancy (n.) A divination by throwing dice or casting lots.
Unfinished :: Unfinished (a.) Not finished, not brought to an end; imperfect; incomplete; left in the rough; wanting the last hand or touch; as, an unfinished house; an unfinished picture; an unfinished iron casting..
Sloughing :: Sloughing (n.) The act of casting off the skin or shell, as do insects and crustaceans; ecdysis..
Broadcast :: Broadcast (n.) A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing..
Ejection :: Ejection (n.) The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation.
Casting :: Casting (n.) That which is cast in a mold; esp. the mass of metal so cast; as, a casting in iron; bronze casting..
Horoscopy :: Horoscopy (n.) The art or practice of casting horoscopes, or observing the disposition of the stars, with a view to prediction events..
Cast :: Cast (n.) The act of casting in a mold.
Founding :: Founding (n.) The art of smelting and casting metals.
Cast Iron :: Cast iron () 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..
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..
Oracular :: Oracular (a.) Of or pertaining to an oracle; uttering oracles; forecasting the future; as, an oracular tongue..
Chock :: Chock (n.) A heavy casting of metal, usually fixed near the gunwale. It has two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or hawsers may pass for towing, mooring, etc..
Raffle :: Raffle (v.) A kind of lottery, in which several persons pay, in shares, the value of something put up as a stake, and then determine by chance (as by casting dice) which one of them shall become the sole possessor..
Foundry :: Foundry (n.) The act, process, or art of casting metals..
Pitching :: Pitching (n.) The act of throwing or casting; a cast; a pitch; as, wild pitching in baseball..
Spray :: Spray (n.) A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.
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