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the use of sarcasm; bitterly satirical; scornfully severe; taunting. What a fierce and sarcastic reprehension would this have drawn from the friendship of the world! South.

In a sarcastic manner.

To deprive of one testicle. -- Sem`i*cas*tra"tion,n.

To cast about; to consider; to ponder. [Obs.] Sir T. Malory.

To take a castle from; to turn out of a castle.

To cast under or beneath.

Cast up; thrown upward; as, with upcast eyes. Addison.

A witling. [R.] Milton.

One who uses an abacus in casting accounts; a calculator.

To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject. [Obs.] That he might . . . abandon them from him. Udall. Being all this time abandoned from your bed. Shak.

To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye. [Archaic] Bacon. Saying so, he abased his lance. Shelton.

Abjectly; downcastly.

To reject; to cast off. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Cast down; low-lying. [Obs.] From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton.

The state of being rejected or cast out. [R.] An adjection from the beatific regions where God, and his angels and saints, dwell forever. Jer. Taylor.

The water used in cleansing. "Cast the ablutions in the main." Pope.

Abnormal; irregular. Hallam. A character of a more abnormous cast than his equally suspected coadjutor. State Trials.

Across; athwart. [Obs.] Nor iron bands aboard The Pontic Sea by their huge navy cast. Spenser.

To renounce. [Obs.] "They abrenounce and cast them off." Latimer.

certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.