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To plan beforehand; to scheme; to project. He shall forecast his devices against the strongholds. Dan. xi. 24.

One who forecast. Johnson.

A short upper deck forward, formerly raised like a castle, to command an enemy's decks.

Predestined. [Obs.] Chaucer.

petty grammarian; a grammatical pedant or pretender. My noble Neophite, my little grammaticaster. B. Jonson.

ent on the one side, and of a Hindoo or Mohammedan on the other. Also adjective; as, half-caste parents.

Confined or inclosed in a castle.

Hoofbound. Crabb.

Of or pertaining to the monitorial system of instruction followed by Joseph Lancaster, of England, in which advanced pupils in a school teach pupils below them.

A quack. [R.] Whitlock.

To cast or reckon wrongly.

A process, invented by P. Ostberg, for producing malleable iron castings by melting wrought iron, to which from 0.05 to 0.1 per cent of aluminium is added to lower the melting point, usually in a petroleum furnace, keeping the molten metal at the bubbling point until it becomes quiet, and then pouring the molten metal…

A little elevation of earth made by a mole; a molehill. Mortimer.

Cast out; degraded. "Outcast, rejected." Longfellow.

That which is cast out. [Obs.]

To cast or cover over; hence, to cloud; to darken. Those clouds that overcast your morn shall fly. Dryden.

A petty politician; a pretender in politics. Milton.

To mold anew; to cast anew; to throw into a new from a shape; to reconstruct; as, to recast cannon; to recast an argument or a play.

To plaster with a mixture of lime and shells or pebbles; as, to roughcast a building.

One who roughcasts.