Uzziah prepared . . . slings to cast stones.
2 Chron. xxvi. 14.

Cast thy garment about thee, and follow me.
Acts. xii. 8.

We must be cast upon a certain island.
Acts. xxvii. 26.

How earnestly he cast his eyes upon me!
Shak.

Thine enemies shall cast a trench [bank] about thee.
Luke xix. 48.

His filth within being cast.
Shak.

Neither shall your vine cast her fruit.
Mal. iii. 11

The creatures that cast the skin are the snake, the viper, etc.
Bacon.

Thy she-goats have not cast their young.
Gen. xxi. 38.

This . . . casts a sulphureous smell.
Woodward.

The government I cast upon my brother.
Shak.

Cast thy burden upon the Lord.
Ps. iv. 22.

The state can not with safety cast him.

You cast the event of war, my noble lord.
Shak.

The cloister . . . had, I doubt not, been cast for [an orange-house].
Sir W. Temple.

She was cast to be hanged.
Jeffrey.

Were the case referred to any competent judge, they would inevitably be cast.
Dr. H. More.

How much interest casts the balance in cases dubious!
South.

Our parts in the other world will be new cast.
Addison.

To cast anchor (Naut.) See under Anchor. -- To cast a horoscope, to calculate it. -- To cast a horse, sheep, or other animal, to throw with the feet upwards, in such a manner as to prevent its rising again. -- To cast a shoe, to throw off or lose a shoe, said of a horse or ox. -- To cast aside, to throw or push aside; to neglect; to reject as useless or inconvenient. -- To cast away. (a) To throw away; to lavish; to waste. "Cast away a life" Addison. (b) To reject; to let perish. "Cast away his people." Rom. xi. 1. "Cast one away." Shak. (c) To wreck. "Cast away and sunk." Shak. -- To cast by, to reject; to dismiss or discard; to throw away. -- To cast down, to throw down; to destroy; to deject or depress, as the mind. "Why art thou cast down. O my soul?" Ps. xiii. 5. -- To cast forth, to throw out, or eject, as from an inclosed place; to emit; to send out. -- To cast in one's lot with, to share the fortunes of. -- To cast in one's teeth, to upbraid or abuse one for; to twin. -- To cast lots. See under Lot. -- To cast off. (a) To discard or reject; to drive away; to put off; to free one's self from. (b) (Hunting) To leave behind, as dogs; also, to set loose, or free, as dogs. Crabb. (c) (Naut.) To untie, throw off, or let go, as a rope. -- To cast off copy, (Print.), to estimate how much printed matter a given amount of copy will make, or how large the page must be in order that the copy may make a given number of pages. -- To cast one's self on or upon to yield or submit one's self unreservedly to, as to the mercy of another. -- To cast out, to throw out; to eject, as from a house; to cast forth; to expel; to utter. -- To cast the lead (Naut.), to sound by dropping the lead to the bottom. -- To cast the water (Med.), to examine the urine for signs of disease. [Obs.]. -- To cast up. (a) To throw up; to raise. (b) To compute; to reckon, as the cost. (c) To vomit. (d) To twit with; to throw in one's teeth.

Weigh anchor, cast to starboard.
Totten.

She . . . cast in her mind what manner of salution this should be.
Luke. i. 29.

Who would cast and balance at a desk.
Tennyson.

It will not run thin, so as to cast and mold.
Woodward.

Stuff is said to cast or warp when . . . it alters its flatness or straightness.
Moxon.

These verses . . . make me ready to cast.
B. Jonson.

A cast of dreadful dust.
Dryden.

An even cast whether the army should march this way or that way.
Sowth.

I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die.
Shak.

And why such daily cast of brazen cannon.
Shak.

An heroic poem, but in another cast and figure.
Prior.

And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought.
Shak.

Gray with a cast of green.
Woodward.

We bargained with the driver to give us a cast to the next stage.
Smollett.

If we had the cast o' a cart to bring it.
Sir W. Scott.

As when a cast of falcons make their flight.
Spenser.

This was a cast of Wood's politics; for his information was wholly false.
Swift.

The cast of the eye is a gesture of aversion.
Bacon.

And let you see with one cast of an eye.
Addison.

This freakish, elvish cast came into the child's eye.
Hawthorne.

A cast of the eye, a slight squint or strabismus. -- Renal cast (Med.), microscopic bodies found in the urine of persons affected with disease of the kidneys; -- so called because they are formed of matter deposited in, and preserving the outline of, the renal tubes. -- The last cast, the last throw of the dice or last effort, on which every thing is ventured; the last chance.