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or forms into shape; specifically (Founding), one skilled in the art of making molds for castings.

Anything cast in a mold, or which appears to be so, as grooved or ornamental bars of wood or metal.

To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, or the like, as an animal or a bird. Bacon.

Made by melting and casting the substance or metal of which the thing is formed; as, a molten image.

To fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains; as, the vessel was moored in the stream; they moored the boat to the wharf.

d. And the tossed bark in moorings swings. Moore. Mooring block (Naut.), a heavy block of cast iron sometimes used as an anchor for mooring vessels.

Biting; given to biting; hence, figuratively, sarcastic; severe; scathing. -- Mor*da"cious*ly, adv.

The quality of being mordacious; biting severity, or sarcastic quality. Bacon.

Biting; caustic; sarcastic; keen; severe.

A Moorish dance, usually performed by a single dancer, who accompanies the dance with castanets.

A round hill or point of land; hence, Morro castle, a castle on a hill.

joint made by a mortise and tenon. -- Mortise lock. See under Lock. -- Mortise wheel, a cast-iron wheel, with wooden clogs inserted in mortises on its face or edge; -- also called mortise gear, and core gear.

A bulwark for offense or defense; a mound. [Obs.] Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem. Jer. vi. 6.

estate; title deeds and papers. Blount. Muniment house or room, that room in a cathedral, castle, or other public building, which is used for keeping the records, charters, seals, deeds, and the like. Gwilt.

To cast off; to molt. Have I muted all my feathers Beau. & Fl.

A pale red color, with a cast of orange. Ure.

tinies; a horoscope. The Nativity, the birth or birthday of Christ; Christmas day. -- To cast, or calculate, one's nativity (Astrol.), to find out and represent the position of the heavenly bodies at the time of one's birth.

Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.

To reduce to the necessity of; to force; to compel. The Marquis of Newcastle, being pressed on both sides, was necessitated to draw all his army into York. Clarendon.

A kind of cast steel containing nickel, which greatly increases its strength. It is used for armor plate, bicycle tubing, propeller shafts, etc.