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The channel or spout through which molten metal runs into a mold in casting. [Written also git, gate.]

Divination as to the destinies of one newly born; the act or art of casting nativities; astrology.

Darting beams of light; casting light in rays; flashing; coruscating. In brazed arms, that cast a gleamy ray, Swift through the town the warrior bends his way. Pope.

The art or practice of casting horoscopes, or observing the disposition of the stars, with a view to prediction events.

s of the horizon, used by astrologers in noting the positions of the heavenly bodies, and casting horoscopes or nativities. The houses were regarded as fixed in respect to the horizon, and numbered from the one at the eastern horizon, called the ascendant, first house, or house of life, downward, or in the direction of…

A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.

A linget or ingot; also, a mold for casting metals. See Linget.

A kind of typesetting machine which produces castings, each of which corresponds to a line of separate types. By pressing upon keys like those of a typewriter the matrices for one line are properly arranged; the stereotype, or slug, is then cast and planed, and the matrices are returned to their proper places, the whol…

A mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making molds for large castings, often without a pattern. Loam mold (Founding), a mold made with loam. See Loam, n., 2. -- Loam molding, the process or business of making loam molds. Loam plate, an iron plate upon which a section of a loam mold rests, or from which…

being shaped under the hammer; decarbonized cast iron. See under Iron. -- Malleable iron castings, articles cast from pig iron and made malleable by heating then for several days in the presence of some substance, as hematite, which deprives the cast iron of some of its carbon.

The malleable iron produced by mitis casting; -- called also simply mitis.

To form a mold of, as in sand, in which a casting may be made.

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

aning machine for making moldings. (b) (Founding) A machine to assist in making molds for castings. -- Molding, or Moulding, mill, a mill for shaping timber. -- Molding, or Moulding, sand (Founding), a kind of sand containing clay, used in making molds.

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.

The core, or the inner part, of a mold for casting a large hollow object.

Of or pertaining to an oracle; uttering oracles; forecasting the future; as, an oracular tongue.

lphuric or nitric acid, etc., to remove burnt sand, scale rust, etc., from the surface of castings, or other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their color.

The act of throwing or casting; a cast; a pitch; as, wild pitching in baseball.