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A design or study drawn of the full size, to serve as a model for transferring or copying; -- used in the making of mosaics, tapestries, fresco pantings and the like; as, the cartoons of Raphael.

To compute; to reckon; to calculate; as, to cast a horoscope. "Let it be cast and paid." Shak. You cast the event of war my noble lord. Shak.

An American bird (Galeoscoptes Carolinensis), allied to the mocking bird, and like it capable of imitating the notes of other birds, but less perfectly. Its note resembles at times the mewing of a cat.

f mercury or other fluid, or of the same column at different times. It consists of a telescopic leveling apparatus (d), which slides up or down a perpendicular metallic standard very finely graduated (bb). The telescope is raised or depressed in order to sight the objects or surfaces, and the differences in vertical he…

A United States coin, the hundredth part of a dollar, formerly made of copper, now of copper, tin, and zinc.

A copper coin of Italy and Spain equivalent to a centime.

The hundredth part of a franc; a small French copper coin and money of account.

See Cercopod.

), having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch.

Native copper sulphide, called also copper glance, and vitreous copper; a mineral of a black color and metallic luster. [Formerly written chalcosine.]

An engraver on copper or brass; hence, an engraver of copper plates for printing upon paper.

The act or art of engraving on copper or brass, especially of engraving for printing.

or that dominion. Milton. Know well each Ancient's proper character; His fable, subject, scope in every page; Religion, Country, genius of his Age. Pope. A man of . . . thoroughly subservient character. Motley.

n connection with the summer schools assembled at Chautauqua, N. Y., by the Methodist Episcopal bishop, J. H. Vincent.

A bug (Blissus leucopterus), which, in the United States, is very destructive to grass, wheat, and other grains; -- also called chiniz, chinch bug, chink bug. It resembles the bedbug in its disgusting odor.

p of gastropod mollusks, with a shell composed of eight movable dorsal plates. See Polyplacophora.

A device in a magic lantern or stereopticon to produce kaleidoscopic effects.

An apparatus by which a number of copies of written matter, maps, plans, etc., can be made; -- called also hectograph.

A chronoscope.

A hydrous silicate of copper, occurring massive, of a blue or greenish blue color.