Band books

12. The assignment of parts in a play to
the actors.

13. (Falconary) A flight or a
couple or set of hawks let go at one time from the hand.
Grabb.

As when a cast of falcons make their
flight.

Spenser.

14. A stoke, touch, or trick.
[Obs.]

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

Swift.

15. A motion or turn, as of the eye;
direction; look; glance; squint.

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.

16. A tube or funnel for conveying metal
into a mold.

17. Four; that is, as many as are thrown
into a vessel at once in counting herrings, etc; a
warp.

18. Contrivance; plot, design.
[Obs.] Chaucer.

A cast of the eye, a slight squint or
strabismus.


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