verb
To move, or be moved, away.
Why then a Ladder quaintly made of Cords / To cast vp, with a paire of anchoring hookes, / Would serue to scale another Hero's towre[…].
The more, an' please your honour, the pity, said the Corporal; in uttering which, he cast his spade into the wheelbarrow[…].
To move, or be moved, away.
As Jesus walked by the see off Galile, he sawe two brethren: Simon which was called Peter, and Andrew his brother, castynge a neet into the see (for they were fisshers)[…].
To move, or be moved, away.
So she to Guyon offred it to tast; / Who taking it out of her tender hond, / The cup to ground did violently cast, / That all in peeces it was broken fond […]
it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
To move, or be moved, away.
To move, or be moved, away.
noun
An act of throwing.
The number rolled on a die when it is thrown.
An instance of throwing out a fishing line.
I went out on the timber boom and made a few casts, but with little success.
Something which has been thrown, dispersed etc.
a cast of scatter'd dust
A small mass of earth "thrown off" or excreted by a worm.
The area near the stream was covered with little bubbly worm casts.
adj
Of an animal, such as a horse or sheep: Lying in a position from which it cannot rise on its own.