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of Cast. [Obs.]

A small, slender European hawk (Falco alaudarius), allied to the sparrow hawk. Its color is reddish fawn, streaked and spotted with white and black. Also called windhover and stannel. The name is also applied to other allied species.

t content with one throe, run along spasmodically, like boys playing at what is called drakestone. De Quincey.

The staff, or shaft, of a pike.

The handle of a rake. That tale is not worth a rakestele. Chaucer.

A chimney; esp., a pipe serving as a chimney, as the pipe which carries off the smoke of a locomotive, the funnel of a steam vessel, etc.

A kind of hone slate or whetstone obtained in Scotland.

e; to attract. With promised joys allured them on. Falconer. The golden sun in splendor likest Heaven Allured his eye. Milton.

or mingled; surrounded by. They heard, And from his presence hid themselves among The thickest trees. Milton.

calumniate; as, to asperse a poet or his writings; to asperse a man's character. With blackest crimes aspersed. Cowper.

Among leather dealers, the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.

Hard, indurated clay; bind. Bends of a ship, the thickest and strongest planks in her sides, more generally called wales. They have the beams, knees, and foothooks bolted to them. Also, the frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides; as, the midship bend.

estitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark color, the opposite of white; characterized by such a color; as, black cloth; black hair or eyes. O night, with hue so black! Shak.

whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate. Blanch over the blackest and most absurd things. Tillotson.

another given point in a shorter time than it could by any other path. This curve of quickest descent, as it is sometimes called, is, in a vacuum, the same as the cycloid.

having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches. Beneath thy branchy bowers of thickest gloom. J. Scott.

The power of respiration, and hence, life. Hood. Thou takest away their breath, they die. Ps. civ. 29.

The sheet iron casing at the end of boilers to convey the smoke from the flues to the smokestack.

The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.

The object of a contemptuous saying. Thou makest us a byword among the heathen. Ps. xliv. 14