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of casting off, or that which is cast off, as skin, feathers, excrement, etc. Casting of draperies, the proper distribution of the folds of garments, in painting and sculpture. -- Casting line (Fishing), the leader; also, sometimes applied to the long reel line. Casting net, a net which is cast and drawn, in distincti…

A well known light red variety of American grape.

A movable parapet, serving to support fascines to cover pioneers. [Obs.]

A white grape, esteemed for the table.

To scrape, scratch, or dig with a claw, or with the hand as a claw. "Clawing [in ash barrels] for bits of coal." W. D. Howells. To claw off (Naut.), to turn to windward and beat, to prevent falling on a lee shore.

s of the same kind growing together; a bunch. Her deeds were like great clusters of ripe grapes, Which load the bunches of the fruitful vine. Spenser.

Cobweb lawn, a fine linen, mentioned in 1640 as being in pieces of fifteen yards. Beck. Draper's Dict. Such a proud piece of cobweb lawn. Beau. & Fl. Cobweb micrometer, a micrometer in which threads of cobwed are substituted for wires.

, series of rings, or spiral, into which a rope, or other like thing, is wound. The wild grapevines that twisted their coils from trec to tree. W. Irving.

A plant of the Brassica or Cabbage genus; esp. that form of B. oleracea called rape and coleseed.

The common rape or cole.

or its seeds, which yield an oil valued for illuminating and lubricating purposes; summer rape.

A variety of American grape, with large dark blue (almost black) grapes in compact clusters.

A trench guarded with a parapet, constructed by besiegers, to secure themselves and check sallies of the besieged.

h the vile In loathsome beds, and leavest the kingly couch Shak. Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. Bryant.

A disease affecting grapes, esp. in California, manifested by the premature dropping of the fruit.

e or wall of the ditch; -- sometimes, the whole covered way, beyond the ditch, with its parapet and glacis; as, the enemy have lodged themselves on the counterscarp.

Resembling crape.

Same as Crape.

oof, fitting upon it like a saddle. -- Interior crest (Fort.), the highest line of the parapet.

To cause to undulate irregularly, as crape or water; to wrinkle; to cause to ripple. Cf. Crimp. The lover with the myrtle sprays Adorns his crisped tresses. Drayton. Along the crisped shades and bowers. Milton. The crisped brooks, Rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold. Milton.