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• CastDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (v. i.) To calculate; to compute.
2. (n.) The act of casting in a mold.
3. (v. i.) To turn the head of a vessel around from the wind in getting under weigh.
4. (n.) The act of casting or throwing; a throw.
5. (n.) A throw of dice; hence, a chance or venture.
6. (n.) A tendency to any color; a tinge; a shade.
7. (v. t.) To form into a particular shape, by pouring liquid metal or other material into a mold; to fashion; to found; as, to cast bells, stoves, bullets.
8. (n.) A stoke, touch, or trick.
9. (v. i.) To throw, as a line in angling, esp, with a fly hook.
10. (n.) The distance to which a thing is or can be thrown.
11. (n.) Four; that is, as many as are thrown into a vessel at once in counting herrings, etc; a warp.
12. (n.) Contrivance; plot, design.
13. (n.) A motion or turn, as of the eye; direction; look; glance; squint.
14. (v. t.) To contrive; to plan.
15. (n.) That which is formed in a mild; esp. a reproduction or copy, as of a work of art, in bronze or plaster, etc.; a casting.
16. (v. t.) To impose; to bestow; to rest.
17. (v. t.) To direct or turn, as the eyes.
18. (n.) A flight or a couple or set of hawks let go at one time from the hand.
19. (v. t.) To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict; as, to be cast in damages.
20. (n.) A tube or funnel for conveying metal into a mold.
21. (v. i.) To warp; to become twisted out of shape.
22. (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.
23. (v. t.) To fix, distribute, or allot, as the parts of a play among actors; also to assign (an actor) for a part.
24. (v. i.) To vomit.
25. (v. t.) To drop; to deposit; as, to cast a ballot.
26. (v. t.) To throw down, as in wrestling.
27. (v. i.) To receive form or shape in a mold.
28. (v. t.) To send or drive by force; to throw; to fling; to hurl; to impel.
29. (n.) An impression or mold, taken from a thing or person; amold; a pattern.
30. (v. i.) To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan; as, to cast about for reasons.
31. (v. t.) To throw up, as a mound, or rampart.
32. (v. t.) To throw out or emit; to exhale.
33. (v. t.) To bring forth prematurely; to slink.
34. (n.) That which is throw out or off, shed, or ejected; as, the skin of an insect, the refuse from a hawks stomach, the excrement of a earthworm.
35. (v. t.) To dismiss; to discard; to cashier.
36. (v. t.) To stereotype or electrotype.
37. (v. t.) To throw off; to eject; to shed; to lose.
38. (n.) A chance, opportunity, privilege, or advantage; specifically, an opportunity of riding; a lift.
39. (n.) The assignment of parts in a play to the actors.
40. (n.) The thing thrown.
41. (n.) Form; appearence; mien; air; style; as, a peculiar cast of countenance.
42. () 3d pres. of Cast, for Casteth.
43. (v. t.) To compute; to reckon; to calculate; as, to cast a horoscope.
44. (imp. & p. p.) of Cast
45. (v. t.) To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide; as, a casting voice.

• CastellatedDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (a.) Furnished with turrets and battlements, like a castle; built in the style of a castle.
2. (a.) Inclosed within a building; as, a fountain or cistern castellated.

• CastellaniesDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (pl. ) of Castellany