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Raffle :: Raffle (v.) A kind of lottery, in which several persons pay, in shares, the value of something put up as a stake, and then determine by chance (as by casting dice) which one of them shall become the sole possessor..

Caste :: Caste (n.) A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly hold intercourse among themselves.

Frigate-built :: Frigate-built (a.) Built like a frigate with a raised quarter-deck and forecastle.

Fling :: Fling (v. t.) To cast, send, to throw from the hand; to hurl; to dart; to emit with violence as if thrown from the hand; as, to fing a stone into the pond..

Canvass :: Canvass (n.) To sift; to strain; to examine thoroughly; to scrutinize; as, to canvass the votes cast at an election; to canvass a district with reference to its probable vote..

Yend :: Yend (v. t.) To throw; to cast.

Deject :: Deject (v. t.) To cast down the spirits of; to dispirit; to discourage; to dishearten.

Scratchbrush :: Scratchbrush (n.) A stiff wire brush for cleaning iron castings and other metal.

Chatellany :: Chatellany (n.) Same as Castellany.

Grapeshot :: Grapeshot (n.) A cluster, usually nine in number, of small iron balls, put together by means of cast-iron circular plates at top and bottom, with two rings, and a central connecting rod, in order to be used as a charge for a cannon. Formerly grapeshot were inclosed in canvas bags..

Cold-shut :: Cold-shut (a.) Closed while too cold to become thoroughly welded; -- said of a forging or casting.

Cast :: Cast (n.) That which is throw out or off, shed, or ejected; as, the skin of an insect, the refuse from a hawk's stomach, the excrement of a earthworm..

Castellany :: Castellany (n.) The lordship of a castle; the extent of land and jurisdiction appertaining to a castle.

Glance :: Glance (v. i.) To look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary or hasty view..

Medicaster :: Medicaster (n.) A quack.

Ricinus :: Ricinus (n.) A genus of plants of the Spurge family, containing but one species (R. communis), the castor-oil plant. The fruit is three-celled, and contains three large seeds from which castor oil iss expressed. See Palma Christi..

Dodecastyle :: Dodecastyle (a.) Having twelve columns in front.

Visionary :: Visionary (n.) One whose imagination overpowers his reason and controls his judgment; an unpractical schemer; one who builds castles in the air; a daydreamer.

Decastyle :: Decastyle (a.) Having ten columns in front; -- said of a portico, temple, etc..

Tritovum :: Tritovum (n.) An embryonic insect which has twice cast its skin previous to hatching from the egg.

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