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Relating to the casting of horoscopes. [Archaic] Whewell.

d, or by which are marched in line or column. (b) An advantageous defensive support, as a castle, morass, wood, declivity, etc.

rica, etc. Street Arab, a homeless vagabond in the streets of a city, particularly and outcast boy or girl. Tylor. The ragged outcasts and street Arabs who are shivering in damp doorways. Lond. Sat. Rev.

is it made a badge of wit and an argument of parts for a man to commence atheist, and to cast off all belief of providence, all awe and reverence for religion South.

some mechanic art or craft; an artisan. [Obs.] How to build ships, and dreadful ordnance cast, Instruct the articles and reward their. Waller.

bespattering of a body with foul water; calumny. Every candid critic would be ashamed to cast wholesale aspersions on the entire body of professional teachers. Grote. Who would by base aspersions blot thy virtue. Dryden.

To besiege. [Obs.] "Assieged castles." Spenser.

st invoke by prayer. Dryden. Astral lamp, an Argand lamp so constructed that no shadow is cast upon the table by the flattened ring-shaped reservoir in which the oil is contained. -- Astral spirits, spirits formerly supposed to live in the heavenly bodies or the aërial regions, and represented in the Middle Ages as fa…

A post of security or defense. [Poetic] Into the castle's tower, The only Aventine that now is left him. Beau. & Fl.

Expressive of awe or terror. An awesome glance up at the auld castle. Sir W. Scott.

Indirect; awkward; insincere; sarcastic; as, a backhanded compliment.

The outer wall of a feudal castle. Hence: The space inclosed by it; the outer court. Holinshed.

The outer wall of a feudal castle. [Obs.]

ing especially, a chief officer, magistrate, or keeper, as of a county, town, hundred, or castle; one to whom power Abbott. Lausanne is under the canton of Berne, governed by a bailiff sent every three years from the senate. Addison.

The whole number of votes cast at an election, or in a given territory or electoral district. Ballot box, a box for receiving ballots.

nything shaped like a mound or ridge of earth; as, a bank of clouds; a bank of snow. They cast up a bank against the city. 2 Sam. xx. 15.

A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.

A hog, esp. a male hog castrated. Holland.

To abase; to let, or cast, down; to lower. [Obs.] If any . . . based his pike. Sir T. North.

The secondary, inferior, or rear courtyard of a large house; the outer court of a castle.