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, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries.

Two times; once and again. He twice essayed to cast his son in gold. Dryden.

the wheel. Dodsley. No more beneath soft eve's consenting star Fandango twirls his jocund castanet. Byron.

does not render them more proper for that particular animal's way of life than any other cast or texture. Addison.

A hollow water-cooled iron casting in the upper part of the archway in which the dam stands.

A raised letter, figure, accent, or other character, cast in metal or cut in wood, used in printing.

A machine for setting type or for casting lines of type and setting them.

A Mexican and Central American tree (Castilloa elastica and C. Markhamiana) related to the breadfruit tree. Its milky juice contains caoutchouc. Called also ule tree.

Casting or making a shade; umbrageous. -- Um*brif"er*ous*ly, adv.

To cast loose or untie, as a rope.

s with acrylic acid, and obtained as a white crystalline substance by the distillation of castor oil.

To receive; to perceive. [Obs.] He the savor undernom Which that the roses and the lilies cast. Chaucer.

he last hand or touch; as, an unfinished house; an unfinished picture; an unfinished iron casting.

To loose, and take off, as a bonnet from a sail, or to cast off, as any lacing in any part of the rigging of a vessel. Totten.

Castrated. [Obs.] "Unpaved eunuch." Shak.

To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach; to cast something in the teeth of; -- followed by with or for, and formerly of, before the thing imputed. And upbraided them with their unbelief. Mark xvi. 14. Vet do not Upbraid us our distress. Shak.

To send, cast, or throw up. As when some island situate afar . . . Upsends a smoke to heaven. Cowper.

he vagabond; to wander like a vagabond; to stroll. On every part my vagabonding sight Did cast, and drown mine eyes in sweet delight. Drummond.

The third of the four great original castes among the Hindoos, now either extinct or partially represented by the mercantile class of Banyas. See the Note under Caste, 1.

Peculiar temper or temperament; tendency or turn of mind; a particular disposition or cast of genius; humor; strain; quality; also, manner of speech or action; as, a rich vein of humor; a satirical vein. Shak. Certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins. Bacon. Invoke the Muses, and improve my vein. Waller.…