We take up with the most incompetent witnesses, nay, often suborn our own surmises and jealousies, that we may be sure to cast the unhappy criminal. Government of the Tongue. He could not, in this forlorn case, have made use of the very last plea of a cast criminal; nor so much as have cried, Mercy! Lord, mercy! South. There then we met; both tried, and both were cast; Dryden. And this irrevocable sentence past. 19. To overcome or defeat in a law suit. [from caster, French.] The northern men were agreed, and in effect all the other, to cast our London escheatour. Camden. Were the case referred to any competent judge, they would inevitably be cast. Decay of Piety. 20. To defeat. No martial project to surprise, As gamesters tear their losing cards. Hudibras. 21. To cashier. You are but now cast in his mood, a punishment more in policy than in malice; even so as one would beat his offenceless dog, to affright an Shakspeare. imperious lion. 22. To leave behind in a race. In short, so swift your judgments turn and wind, You cast our fleetest wits a mile behind. Dryd. 23. To shed; to let fall; to lay aside; to moult; to change for new. Our chariot lost her wheels, their points our spears, The bird of conquest her chief feather cast. Fairfax. Of plants some are green all winter, others Bacon's Natural History. east their leaves. The casting of the skin is, by the ancients, compared to the breaking of the secundine, or cawl, but not rightly; for that were to make every casting of the skin a new birth: and besides, the secundine is but a general cover, not shaped according to the parts, but the skin is shaped according to the parts. The creatures that cast the skin, are the snake, the viper, the grasshopper, the lizard, the silkworm, &c. Bacon, O fertile head, which ev'ry year From hence, my lord and love, I thus con- That though my homely ancestors were rude, And noble then am I, when I begin, The ladies have been in a kind of moulting So may cast poets write; there's no pretension To argue loss of wit, from loss of pension. Dryd. He has ever been of opinion, that giving cast clothes to be worn by valets, has a very ill effect Addison. upon little minds. To have abortions; to bring forth before the time. 25. Thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their Genesis. young. 26. To make to preponderate; to decide by overbalancing; to give overweight. Which being inclined, not constrained, con tain within themselves the casting act, and a Brown. power to command the conclusion. How much interest casts the balance in cases South. dubious. Life and death are equal in themselves, That which could cast the balance is thy falshood. Dryden. Not many years ago, it so happened, that a cobler had the casting vote for the life of a criminal, which he very graciously gave on the Addison on Italy. merciful side. Suppose your eyes sent equal rays In this sad state, your doubtful choice Prior. 27. To compute; to reckon ; to calculate. Hearts, tongues, figure, scribes, bards, poets, cannot Think, speak, cast, write, sing, number, ho! His love to Antony. Shakspeare. Here is now the smith's note for shoeing and Shaksp. plow-irons. Let it be cast and paid. You cast th' event of war, my noble Lord," And summ'd th' account of chance, before you said, Let us make head. Shakspeare. The best way to represent to life the manifold use of friendship, is to cart and see how many things there are, which a man cannot do himself. Bacon's Essays. I have lately been casting in my thoughts the several unhappinesses of life, and comparing the infelicities of old age to those of infancy. Addis. 28. To contrive; to plan out. The cloister facing the South is covered with vines, and would have been proper for an orange house; and had, I doubt not, been cast for that purpose, if this piece of gardening had been then Temple. in as much vogue as it is now. 29. To judge; to consider in order to judgment. If thou couldst, doctor, cast Peace, brother, be not over exquisite, To cast the fashion of uncertain evils. Milton. 30. To fix the parts in a play. Our parts in the other world will be new cast, and mankind will be there ranged in different stations of superiority. Addison. 31. To glance; to direct: applied to the eye or mind. A losel wandering by the way. One that to bounty never cast his mind'; Ne thought of heaven ever did assay His baser breast. Zelmanes's languishing countenance, with Spenser. sun, And orient science, at a birth begun. Pope. He then led me to the rock, and, placing me on the top of it, Cast thy eyes eastward, said he, and tell me what thou seest. Addison." 32. To found; to form by running in a mould. When any such curious work of silver is to be cast, as requires that the impression of hairs, or very slender lines, be taken off by the metal, it is not enough that the silver be barely melted, but it must be kept a considerable while in a strong fusion. Bayle. How to build ships, and dreadful ordnance cast, Instruct the artist. Waller. The father's grief restrain'd his art; He twice essay'd to cast his son in gold, Twice from his hands he dropp'd the forming mould. Dryden. 33. To melt metal into figures. Yon crowd, he might reflect, yon joyful crowd With restless rage would pull my statue down, And cast the brass anew to his renown. Prior. This was but as a refiner's fire, to purge out the dross, and then cast the mass again into a new mould. Burnet's Theory. 34. To model; to form by rule. We may take a quarter of a mile for the common measure of the depth of the sea, if it were cast into a channel of an equal depth every where. Burnet's Theory of the Earth. Under this influence, derived from mathematical studies, some have been tempted to cast all their logical, their metaphysical, and their theological and moral learning into this method. Watts' Logick. 35. To communicate by reflection or emanation. So bright a splendour, so divine a grace, The glorious Daphnis casts on his illustrious race. Dryden. We may happen to find a fairer light cast over the same scriptures, and see reason to alter our sentiments even in some points of moment. Watts on the Mind. 36. To yield, or give up, without reserve or condition. The reason of mankind cannot suggest any solid ground of satisfaction, but in making God our friend, and in carrying a conscience so clear, as may encourage us, with confidence, to east ourselves upon him. South. 37. To inflict. The world is apt to cast great blame on those who have an indifferency of opinions, especially in religion. Locke. 38. To cast aside. To dismiss as useless or inconvenient. I have bought Golden opinions from all sort of people, Which would be worn now in their newest gloss, Not cast aside so soon. Shakspeare. 39. To cast away. To shipwreck. Sir Francis Drake and John Thomas, meeting with a storm, it thrust John Thomas upon the islands to the south, where he was cast away. Raleigh's Essays. His father Philip had, by like mishap, been like to have been cast away upon the coast of England. Knolles's History of the Turks, Shakspeare. He might be silent, and not cast away His sentences in vain. Ben Jonson O Marcia, O my sister! still there's hope, Our father will not cast away a life So needful to us all, and to his country. 41. To cast away. To ruin. Addison's Cate. It is no impossible thing for states, by an oversight in some one act or treaty between them and their potent opposites, utterly to cast array themselves for ever. Hooler. 42. To cast by. To reject or dismiss, with neglect or hate. Old Capulet and Montague, Cast by their grave beseeming ornaments. Shaks. When men, presuming themselves to be the only masters of right reason, cast by the votes and opinions of the rest of mankind, as not worthy of reckoning. Locke. 43. To cast down. To reject; to depress the mind. We're not the first, Who, with best meaning, have incurr'd the worst: For thee, oppressed king, I am cast doron ; Myself could else outfrown false fortune's frown. Shakspeare. The best way will be to let him see you are much cast down, and afflicted, for the ill opinion he entertains of you. Addison. 44. To cast forth. To emit. He shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. 45. To cast forth. To eject. Hosea I cast forth all the household stuff. Nebemiab. They cast me forth into the sea. Jonab. 46. To cast off. To discard; to put away. The prince will, in the perfectness of time, Cast off his followers. Shakspeare. Cast me not off in the time of old age Psalms. He led me on to mightiest deeds, But now hath cast me off as never known. Milt. How! not call him father? I see preferment alters a man strangely; this may serve me for an use of instruction, to cast off my father when I am great. Dryden. I long to clasp that haughty maid, And bend her stubborn virtue to my passion: When I have gone thus far, I'd cast her off Addison. 47. To cast off. To reject. It is not to be imagined, that a whole society of men should publickly and professedly disown and cast off a rule, which they could not but be infallibly certain was a law. Lecke. 48. To cast off. To disburden one's self of. All conspired in one to cast off their subjec tion to the crown of England. Spenser. This maketh them, through an unweariable desire of receiving instruction, to cast off the care of those very affairs, which do most cancera their estate. Hooker, Prefact CAS The true reason why any man is an atheist, is because he is a wicked man: religion would curb him in his lusts; and therefore he casts it off, and Tillotson. puts all the scorn upon it he can. Company, in any action, gives credit and countenance to the agent; and so much as the sinSouth. ner gets of this, so much he casts off of shame. We see they never fail to exert themselves, and to cast off the oppression, when they feel the Addison. weight of it. 49. To cast off. To leave behind. Away he scours cross the fields, casts off the dogs, and gains a wood: but pressing through a thicket, the bushes held him by the horns, till the hounds came in and plucked him down. L'Estrange. 50. To cast off. [a hunting term.] To let go, or set free: as, to cast off the dogs. 51. To cast out. To reject; to turn out of doors. Thy brat hath been cast out, like to itself, no Shakspeare. father owning it. 52. To cast out. To vent; to speak: with some intimation of negligence or vehe mence. Why dost thou cast out such ungenerous terms Against the lords and sovereigns of the world? Addison. 53. To cast up. To compute; to calculate. Some writers, in casting up the goods most desirable in life, have given them this rank; health, Temple. beauty, and riches. A man who designs to build, is very exact, as he supposes, in casting up the cost beforehand; but, generally speaking, he is mistaken in his Dryden. account. 54. To cast up. To vomit. Thou, beastly feeder, art so full of him, O, that in time Rome did not cast Thy foolish errour find; Cast up the poison that infects thy mind. Dryd. 55. To cast upon. To refer to; to resign to. If things were cast upon this issue, that God should never prevent sin till man deserved it, the test would sin and sin for ever. South. To CAST. V. n. Then, closely as he might, he cast to leave Spenser. We have three that bend themselves, looking into the experiments of their fellows, and cast about how to draw out of them things of use and Iractice for man's life and knowledge. Bacon. But first he casts to change his proper shape; Which else might work him danger or delay. As a fox with hot pursuit Chas'd thro' a warren, cast about Milton. Hudibras. All events called casual, among inanimate bodies, are mechanically produced according to the determinate figures, textures, and motions of those bodies; which are not conscious of their own operations, nor contrive and cast about how to bring such events to pass. Bentley. This way and that I cast to save my friends, Till one resolve my varying counsel ends. Pape. 2. To admit of a form, by casting or melting. It comes at the first fusion into a mass that is immediately malleable, and will not run thin, so as to cast and mould, unless mixed with poorer Woodward on Fossils. ore, or cinders. 3. To warp; to grow out of form. Stuff is said to cast or warp, when, by its own drought, or moisture of the air, or other accident, it alters its flatness and straightness. Moxon's Mechanical Exercises. 4. To cast about. To contrive; to look for means. Inanimate bodies are not conscious of their own operations, nor contrive and cast about to bring such events to pass. Bentley's Sermons. CAST. n. s. [from the verb.] 1. The act of casting or throwing; a throw. So when a sort of lusty shepherds throw The bar by turns, and none the rest outgo So far, but that the rest are measuring casts, Their emulation and their pastime lasts. Waller. 2. The thing thrown. Yet all these dreadful deeds, this deadly fray, A cast of dreadful dust will soon allay. Dryden. 3. State of any thing cast or thrown. In his own instance of casting ambs-ace, though it partake more of contingency than of freedom; supposing the positure of the party's hand, who did throw the dice; supposing the figure of the table, and of the dice themselves; supposing the measure of force applied, and supposing all other things which did concur to the production of that cast, to be the very same they were; there is no doubt but, in this case, the cast is necessary. Bramball's Ans. to Hobbes. Plato compares life to a game at tables: there what cast we shall have is not in our power; but Norris. to manage it well, that is. 4. Manner of throwing. Some harrow their ground over, and sow wheat or rye on it with a broad cast; some only with a single cast, and some with a double. Mortimer. 5. The space through which any thing is thrown. And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, and kneeled down and prayed. Luke. 6. A stroke; a touch. We have them all with one voice for giving him a cast of their court prophecy. South. Another cast of their politicks, was that of endeavouring to impeach an innocent lady, for her faithful and diligent service of the queen. Swift. This was a cast of Wood's politicks; for his information was wholly false and groundless. Swift. 7. Motion of the eye; direction of the eye. Pity causeth sometimes tears, and a flexion or cast of the eye side; for pity is but grief in another's behalf; the cast of the eye is a gesture of aversion, or lothness, to behold the object of Bacon's Natural History. pity. A man shall be sure to have a cast of their eve to warn him, before they give him a cast of their South nature to betray him. If any man desires to look on this doctrine of gravity, let him turn the first cast of his eyes on Digby on the Soul. what we have said of fire. There, held in holy passion still, Milton CAS let you see, with one cast of an eye, the sub- Were it good, To set the exact wealth of all our states On the nice hazard of some doubtful hour? 10. Venture from throwing dice; chance When you have brought them to the very last 11. A mould; a form. The whole would have been an heroick poem, but in another cast and figure than any that ever had been written before. Prior. 12. A shade, or tendency to any colour. A flaky mass, grey, with a cast of green, in which the talky matter makes the greatest part of the mass. Woodward. The qualities of blood in a healthy state are to be florid, the red part congealing, and the serum ought to be without any greenish cast. Arbuth. 13. Exterior appearance. The native hue of resolution New names, new dressings, and the modern Some scenes, some persons alter'd, and outfac'd 14. Manner; air; mien. Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of neat cast of verse, are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments, of poetry. Neglect not the little figures and turns on the Pope's Letters. words, nor sometimes the very cast of the periods; neither omit or confound any rites or customs of antiquity. 15. A flight; a number of hawks dismissed Pope on Homer. from the fist. A cast of merlins there was besides, which, flying of a gallant height, would beat the birds that rose down unto the bushes, as falcons will do wild fowl unto a river. 16. [casta, Spanish.] A breed; a race; a Sidney. species. CA'STANET. n. s. [castaneta, Span.] A small shell of ivory, or hard wood, which dancers rattle in their hands. If there had been words cnow between them, to have expressed provocation, they had gone together by the cars like a pair of castanets. Congreve's Way of the World. CA'STAWAY. n. s. [from cast and away.] A person lost, or abandoned, by Providence; any thing thrown away. Neither given any leave to search in particular who are the heirs of the kingdom of God, who castaways. Lest that by any means, when I have preached Hooker. to others, I myself should be a castaway. 1 Cor. CASTAWAY. adj. [from the noun.] Useless; of no value. CAS We only prize, pamper, and exalt this val and slave of death; or only remember, at castaway leisure, the imprisoned immortal soul CA'STED. The participle preterit of cas, Raleigh's History but improperly, and found perhaps only in the following passage. When the mind is quicken'd, out of doubt, The organs, tho' defunct and dead before, Break up their drowsy grave, and newly move With casted slough and fresh legerity. Shak CA'STELLAIN. n. s. [castellano, Span.] The captain, governour, or constable, of a castle. CA'STELLANY. n. s. [from castel.] The lordship belonging to a castle; the exCA'STELLATED. adj. [from castle.] Entent of its land and jurisdiction.Phillips. closed within a building, as a fountain or cistern castellated. CA'STER. n. s. [from To cast.] 1. A thrower; he that casts. Dict. If with this throw the strongest caster vie, Still, further still, I bid the discus fly. Pept 2. A calculator; a man that calculates fortunes. Did any of them set up for a caster of fortu nate figures, what might he not get by his pre dictions? Addison To_CA'STIGATE. v. a. [castigo, Lat.] If thou didst put this sour cold habit on, This hand of yours requires A sequester from liberty; fasting and prayer, With castigation, exercise devout. Shakspeart. 2. Punishment; correction. Their castigations were accompanied with encouragements; which care was taken to keep me from looking upon as mere compliments. Boyle. 3. Emendation; repressive remedy. Hale. The ancients had these conjectures touching CA'STLË. n. s. [castellum, Lat.] The castle of Macduff I will surprise. Shaks. 2. CASTLES in the air. [chateaux d'Espagne, Fr.] Projects without reality. These were but like castles in the air, and in men's fancies vainly imagined. CASTLE-SOAP. n. s. [I suppose corrupted Raleigh. from Castile soap.] A kind of soap, I have a letter from a soap-boiler, desiring the to write upon the present duties on castle-sp Addisca CA'STLED. adj. [from castle.] Furnished with castles. CAS The horses neighing by the wind is blown, And castled elephants o'erlook the town. Dryd CASTLEWARD. n. s. [from castle and award.] An imposition laid upon such of the king's subjects, as dwell within a certain compass of any castle, toward the maintenance of such as watch and ward Cowell. the castle. CAʼSTLING. 1. s. [from cast.] An abortive. We should rather rely upon the urine of a castling's bladder, a resolution of crabs eyes, or a second distillation of urine, as Helmont hath commended. Brown's Vulgar Errours. CA'STOR, OF CHE'STER, are derived from the Sax. cearzen, a city, town, or castle; and that from the Latin castrum: the Saxons chusing to fix in such places of strength and figure, as the Romans Gibson. had before built or fortified. CA'STOR. n. s. [castor, Lat.] 1. A beaver. See BEAVER. 2. Like hunted castors conscious of their store, Their waylaid wealth to Norway's coast they bring. Dryden. A fine hat made of the fur of a beaver. CASTOR and POLLUX. [In meteorology.] A fiery meteor, which appears sometimes sticking to a part of the ship, in form of one, two, or even three or four balls. When one is seen alone, it is called Helena, which portends the severest part of the storm to be yet behind; two are denominated Castor and Pollux, and sometimes Tyndarides, which portend a cessation of the storm. Chambers. CASTO'REUM. n. s. [from castor. In pharmacy.] A liquid matter inclosed in bags or purses, near the anus of the castor, falsely taken for his testicles. Chambers. CASTRAMETA'TION. n. s. [from castrametor, Lat.] The art or practice of encamping. To CA'STRATE. v. a. [castro, Lat.] 1. To geld. 2. To take away the obscene parts of a writing. CASTRATION. n. s. [from castrate.] The act of gelding. The largest needle should be used, in taking up the spermatick vessels in castration. Sharp. CA'STRELĮ n. s. A kind of hawk. CA'STERIL. S Dict. CASTRE'NSIAN. adj. [castrensis, Lat.] Be- That which seemeth most casual and subject Milton. I should have acquainted my judge with one advantage, and which I now casually remember. Dryden. CA'SUALNESS. n. s. [from casual.] Áccidentalness. CA'SUALTY. n. s. [from casual.] 1. Accident; a thing happening by chance, not design. 2. With more patiencemen endure the bosses that befall them by mere casually, than the damages which they sustain by injustice. Raleigh's Essays. That Octavius Cæsar should shift his camp that night that it happened to be took by the enemy, was a mere casualty; yet it preserved a person, who lived to establish a total alteration of government in the imperial city of the world. South. Chance that produces unnatural death. Builds in the weather on the outward wall, Ev'n in the force and road of casualty. Shaksp. It is observed in particular nations, that, within the space of two or three hundred years, notwithstanding all casualties, the number of men Burnet's Theory doubles. We find one casualty in our bills, of which, though there be daily talk, there is little effect. Graunt's Bills of Mortality. CA'SUIST. n. s. [casuiste, Fr. from casus, Lat.] One that studies and settles cases of conscience. The judgment of any casuist, or learned divine, concerning the state of a man's soul, is not suf ficient to give him confidence. South. without You can scarce see a bench of porters two or three casuists in it, that will settle you Addison. the rights of princes. Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt like you and me? Popt CASUI'STICAL. adj. [from casuist.] Relating to cases of conscience; containing the doctrine relating to cases. What arguments they have to beguile poor, This concession would not pass for good casu Pope. Fr. A |