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That which is cast off by bird in pruning her feathers; leavings. Beau. & Fl. Pruning hook, or Pruning knife, cutting instrument used in pruning trees, etc. -- Pruning shears, shears for pruning trees, vines, etc.

To subject to the process of puddling, as iron, so as to convert it from the condition of cast iron to that of wrought iron. Ure. Puddled steel, steel made directly from cast iron by a modification of the puddling process.

One who converts cast iron into wrought iron by the process of puddling.

The art or process of converting cast iron into wrought iron or steel by subjecting it to intense heat and frequent stirring in a reverberatory furnace in the presence of oxidizing substances, by which it is freed from a portion of its carbon and other impurities. Puddling furnace, a reverberatory furnace in which cast…

To throw or cast with a pushing motion "overhand," the hand being raised from the shoulder; a practice in athletics; as, to put the shot or weight.

To become quelled; to become cast down; to sink under trial or apprehension of danger; to lose the spirit and power of resistance; to lose heart; to give way; to shrink; to cower. The atheist power shall quail, and confess his fears. I. Taylor. Stouter hearts than a woman's have quailed in this terrible winter. Longfel…

A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort; a gibe. Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles. Milton. He was full of joke and jest, But all his merry quips are o'er. Tennyson.

A person dismissed or ejected from a position. [R.] "Make them quondams; . . . cast them out of their office." Latimer.

ex of the petiole; -- said of such leaves as those of the grapevine, most maples, and the castor-oil plant.

in shares, the value of something put up as a stake, and then determine by chance (as by casting dice) which one of them shall become the sole possessor.

A Hindoo of the second, or royal and military, caste; a Kshatriya; especially, an inhabitant of the country of Rajpootana, in northern central India.

A rampart. [Archaic] The Trojans round the place a rampire cast. Dryden.

Distance to which a missile is cast; range; reach; as, the random of a rifle ball. Sir K. Digby.

Am extended cooking apparatus of cast iron, set in brickwork, and affording conveniences for various ways

material used in smelting; leather is the raw material of the shoe industry. -- Raw pig, cast iron as it comes from the smelting furnace.

A specter having long teeth, popularly supposed to haunt old castles in Scotland. [Scot.] Jamieson.

A furnace in which cast iron is refined by the action of a blast on the molten metal.

To cast reproach; to cause censure or dishonor. Errors of wives reflect on husbands still. Dryden. Neither do I reflect in the least upon the memory of his late majesty. Swift.

Censure; reproach cast. He died; and oh! may no reflection shed Its poisonous venom on the royal dead. Prior.

To found or cast anew. "Ancient bells refounded." T. Warton.