[see CAST v.]
1. Thrown, that has been thrown. See the vb.
1621. Quarles, Argalus & P. (1678), 24. Her liveless hands did, by degrees, Raise her cast body.
1859. Gullick & Timbs, Paint., 196, note. An eclipse is a vast ‘cast shadow.’
† 2. Condemned; beaten in a law suit. Obs.
1577. Holinshed, Chron., III. 865/2. About foure of the clocke he was brought as a cast man to the Tower.
1642. Milton, Apol. Smect. (1851), 258. Sitting … upon his poore cast adversaries both as a Judge and Party.
3. Cashiered, dismissed from office (obs.); discarded, cast off. (Cast captain was app. orig. cassed captain; this led to other uses.)
1607. Dekker, Northw. Hoe, V. Wks. 1873, III. 74. A new trade come up for cast gentlewomen.
1622. Fletcher, Span. Cur., I. i. 25. The Sonne Of a poore cast-Captain.
1636. Healey, Theophrast., 33. Some cast Captaine, or cassierd Souldier.
1672. Dryden, Secret Love, I. ii. If thou should’st prove one of my cast mistresses.
1755. Walpole, Corr. (1837), I. 258. It is sung by some cast singers.
4. Of horses, etc.: Rejected, as unfit for service, broken down.
1580. North, Plutarch, 291. To keep cast Horses.
1653. H. Cogan, trans. Pinto’s Trav., x. § 1. 30. Put a grasing like a cast Horse.
1844. Regul. & Ord. Army, 376. The sale of Cast Horses.
5. Of garments: Thrown aside, discarded, no longer worn. Now usually CAST-OFF.
1597. 1st Pt. Return fr. Parnass., III. i. 967. A moste lousie caste sute of his.
1611. Bible, Jer. xxxviii. 11. Old cast cloutes.
a. 1719. Addison, Drummer, I. i. A wardrobe for my Lady’s cast cloaths.
1828. Scott, F. M. Perth, xxx. It is not for Rothsay to wear your cast garments, Sir John.
6. gen. Thrown off, disused, worn out, abandoned, forsaken. Now usually CAST-OFF.
1597. Bp. Hall, Sat., VI. i. In Margent of some old cast bill.
1599. Shaks., Hen. V., IV. i. 23. With casted slough, and fresh legeritie. Ibid. (1600), A. Y. L., III. iv. 17. A paire of cast lips of Diana.
7. Thrown up with the spade.
1487. Newminster Cartul. (1878), 263. An olde casten dike.
1593. Tell-Troth’s N. Y. Gift (1876), 42. Fortified with deepe cast-rauelinges.
8. Of metal, etc.: Made by melting, and leaving to harden in a mold. See also CAST-IRON.
1535. Coverdale, Isa. xlviii. 5. My carued or cast ymage.
1544. Ludlow Churchw. Acc. (Camd.), 19. Item, for xx li. of cast lede … xx d.
1692. in Capt. Smith, Seaman’s Gram., II. xiv. 111. A Cast-Bullet of Iron.
1765. Univ. Mag., XXXVII. 84/1. Cast copper or brass.
1794. Rigging & Seamanship, I. 154. Sheaves are made of cast metal.
1824. W. Irving, Salmag., 203. His learned distinctions between wrought scissors and those of cast-steel.
1831. Carlyle, Sart. Res. (1858), 20. Proposal for a Cast-metal King.
1851. Mayhew, Lond. Labour, II. 18 (Hoppe). Before cast glass was so common.
9. Cookery. ‘Whipped,’ curded.
1597. Bk. Cookerie, 46. How to make caste creame.
† 10. Calculated, planned. Obs.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 10448. He … Neuer kyld no kyng … but with cast treson.
11. Like the verb, it may be used with many adverbs. See also CASTAWAY, CAST-BY, CAST-OFF.
1580. Sidney, Arcadia (1622), 321. His seruant with smiling and cast-vp looke.
1645. Rutherford, Tryal & Tri. Faith (1845), 183. Christ is near a cast-down mourner in Sion.
1653. H. Cogan, trans. Pinto’s Trav., li. § 1. 201. With cast down looks, and tears in their eyes.
1834. Marryat, Jac. Faithf., iii. Cast up wrecks.
