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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.

Cast (?), v. i. 1.
To throw, as a line in angling, esp, with a fly
hook.

2. (Naut.) To turn the head of a
vessel around from the wind in getting under weigh.

Weigh anchor, cast to starboard.

Totten.

3. To consider; to turn or revolve in the
mind; to plan; as, to cast about for reasons.

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

Luke. i. 29.

4. To calculate; to compute.
[R.]

Who would cast and balance at a desk.

Tennyson.

5. To receive form or shape in a
mold.

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

Woodward.

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