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-- with over, and probably only in the past participle. [R.] Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. Shak. Sentiments sicklied over . . . with that cloying heaviness into which unvaried sweetness is too apt to subside. Jeffrey.

ilvery voices; a silvery laugh. Silvery iron (Metal.), a peculiar light-gray fine-grained cast iron, usually obtained from clay iron ore.

d. See under Fund. -- Sinking head (Founding), a riser from which the mold is fed as the casting shrinks. See Riser, n., 4. -- Sinking pump, a pump which can be lowered in a well or a mine shaft as the level of the water sinks.

Six; the highest number on a die; the cast of six in throwing dice. In the new casting of a die, when ace is on the top, sise must needs be at the bottom. Fuller.

To cast reflections on; to asperse. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Crose.

An oblique reflection or gibe; a sarcastic remark. Slant or wind, a local variation of the wind from its general direction.

To apply, or apply something to, in a hasty, careless, or rough manner; to roughcast; as, to slapdash mortar or paint on a wall, or to slapdash a wall. [Colloq.] Halliwell.

To visit with great destruction of life; to kill; to slay in battle. Your castle is surprised; your wife and babes Savagely slaughtered. Shak.

ubmit to. C. Lever. There is a slavery that no legislation can abolish, -- the slavery of caste. G. W. Cable.

To throw; to hurl; to cast. Addison.

To cast prematurely; -- said of female beasts; as, a cow that slinks her calf.

The skin, commonly the cast-off skin, of a serpent or of some similar animal.

The act of casting off the skin or shell, as do insects and crustaceans; ecdysis.

ey had also all manner of gynes [engines] . . . that needful is [in] taking or sieging of castle or of city, as snails, that was naught else but hollow pavises and targets, under the which men, when they fought, were heled [protected], . . . as the snail is in his house; therefore they cleped them snails. Vegetius (Tra…

To check, stop, or rebuke, with a tart, sarcastic reply or remark; to reprimand; to check. J. Foster.

. Home he goeth, he might not longer sojourn. Chaucer. The soldiers first assembled at Newcastle, and there sojourned three days. Hayward.

A small piece of metal cast lower than a face type, so as not to receive the ink in printing, -- used to separate words or letters.

A castrated man or beast.

eaves on both sides. Gwilt. -- Span shackle (Naut.), a large bolt driven through the forecastle deck, with a triangular shackle in the head to receive the heel of the old-fashioned fish davit. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

frigate, the deck which is continued in a straight line from the quarter-deck to the forecastle, and on which spare spars are usually placed. See under Deck. -- Spar torpedo (Naut.), a torpedo carried on the end of a spar usually projecting from the bow of a vessel, and intended to explode upon contact with an enemy'…