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iety who chiefly hold intercourse among themselves. The tinkers then formed an hereditary caste. Macaulay. To lose caste, to be degraded from the caste to which one has belonged; to lose social position or consideration.

A goveror or warden of a castle.

The lordship of a castle; the extent of land and jurisdiction appertaining to a castle.

Inclosed within a building; as, a fountain or cistern castellated. [Obs.] Johnson.

The act of making into a castle.

One who casts; as, caster of stones, etc. ; a caster of cannon; a caster of accounts.

A caster of accounts; a reckoner; a bookkeeper; -- used conteptuously.

or vicious critic. The rancorous and reptile crew of poeticules, who decompose into criticasters. Swinburne.

A measure of capacity, equal to ten steres, or ten cubic meters.

A court of justice; judgment hall. [R.] J. S. Mill.

One who forecast. Johnson.

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.

A petty politician; a pretender in politics. Milton.

One who roughcasts.

A witling. [R.] Milton.