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6. To warp; to become twisted out of
shape.

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

Moxon.

7. To vomit.

These verses . . . make me ready to
cast.

B. Jonson.

Cast, 3d pres. of Cast,
for Casteth. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Cast, n. [Cf. Icel., Dan., & Sw.
kast.] 1. The act of casting or
throwing; a throw.

2. The thing thrown.

A cast of dreadful dust.

Dryden.

3. The distance to which a thing is or
can be thrown. "About a stone's cast." Luke
xxii. 41.

4. A throw of dice; hence, a chance or
venture.

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.

5. That which is throw out or off, shed,
or ejected; as, the skin of an insect, the refuse from a hawk's
stomach, the excrement of a earthworm.


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