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nts, in painting and sculpture. -- Casting line (Fishing), the leader; also, sometimes applied to the long reel line. Casting net, a net which is cast and drawn, in distinction from a net that is set and left. -- Casting voice, Casting vote, the decisive vote of a presiding officer, when the votes of the assembly or…

s much larger than the domestic cat. In the United States the name wild cat is commonly applied to the bay lynx (Lynx rufus) See Wild cat, and Tiger cat.

The cougar. Applied also, in some parts of the United States, to the lynx.

A soft and moist substance applied externally to some part of the body; a poultice. Dunglison.

stone cat (Noturus flavus); the sea cat (Arius felis), etc. This name is also sometimes applied to the wolf fish. See Bullhrad.

One aiming at or pretending to a greater purity of like than others about him; -- applied to persons of various sects. See Albigenses.

The name of various instruments for passing along mucous canals, esp. applied to a tubular instrument to be introduced into the bladder through the urethra to draw off the urine. Eustachian catheter. See under Eustachian. -- Prostatic catheter, one adapted for passing an enlarged prostate.

A term applied to the centrifugal, or efferent course of the nervous infuence. Marshall Hall.

Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.

ention, designed to be patented, lodged in the patent office before the patent right is applied for, and operating as a bar to the issue of letters patent to any other person, respecting the same invention.

One who performs a public religious rite; -- applied particularly to an officiating priest in the Roman Catholic Church, as distinguished from his assistants.

Converging to a center; -- applied to lines drawn so as to meet in a point or center.

A term applied to the action of nerve force in the spinal center. Marshall Hall.

Craniotomy; -- usually applied to bisection of the fetal head with a saw.

Having a head; -- applied chiefly to the Cephalata, a division of mollusks.

er, so that it can be spread upon cloth without the use of heat, but does not melt when applied to the skin.

Applied to those nerve fibers which go from the brain to the spinal cord, and so transfer cerebral impulses (centrifugal impressions) outwards.

Applied to those nerve fibers which go from the spinal cord to the brain and so transfer sensations (centripetal impressions) from the exterior inwards.

A waxy substance extracted by alcohol or ether from cork; sometimes applied also to the portion of beeswax which is soluble in alcohol. Watts.

Cherry-colored; a light bright red; --- applied to textile fabrics, especially silk.