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Severe; sarcastic; biting; as, a cutting reply.

pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table.

To cast aside; to put off; to doff. [Obs.] Canst thou so daff me Thou hast killed my child. Shak.

Same as Damask, or Damaskeen, v. t. "Damascened armor." Beaconsfield. "Cast and damascened steel." Ure.

Dejected; depressed; sunk. [R.] All these and more came flocking, but with looks Downcast and damp. Milton.

To cast a gloom upon. With these forced thoughts, I prithee, darken not The mirth of the feast. Shak.

Given by a magistrate, as distinguished from being cast upon a party by the law. Burril. Bouvier. Dative executor, one appointed by the judge of probate, his office answering to that of an administrator.

A rough coat of mortar put upon a wall to give it the appearance of stone; rough-cast.

A vain fancy speculation; a reverie; a castle in the air; unfounded hope. Mrs. Lambert's little daydream was over. Thackeray.

A falling away; decay; deterioration; declension. "The old castle, where the family lived in their decadence.' Sir W. Scott.

To discard. [Obs.] You have cast those by, decarded them. J. Fletcher.

oration; as, the decay of the body; the decay of virtue; the decay of the Roman empire; a castle in decay. Perhaps my God, though he be far before, May turn, and take me by the hand, and more -May strengthen my decays. Herbert. His [Johnson's] failure was not to be ascribed to intellectual decay. Macaulay. Which has ca…

Decapitated; worn or cast off in the process of growth, as the apex of certain univalve shells.

Having a deep waist, as when, in a ship, the poop and forecastle are much elevated above the deck.

To become deeper; as, the water deepens at every cast of the lead; the plot deepens. His blood-red tresses deepening in the sun. Byron.

One who defends; a defender. The rampiers and ditches which the defendants had cast up. Spotswood.

A casting aside; renunciation; rejection. [Obs.] "Defiance to thy kindness." Ford. To bid defiance, To set at defiance, to defy; to disregard recklessly or contemptuously. Locke.

To cast down. [Obs. or Archaic] Christ dejected himself even unto the hells. Udall. Sometimes she dejects her eyes in a seeming civility; and many mistake in her a cunning for a modest look. Fuller.

Cast down; afflicted; low-spirited; sad; as, a dejected look or countenance. -- De*ject"ed*ly, adv. -- De*ject"ed*ness, n.

One who casts down, or dejects.