Definition of cast

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Cast (n.) A chance, opportunity, privilege, or advantage; specifically, an opportunity of riding; a lift..

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Undercast :: Undercast (v. t.) To cast under or beneath.
Abjection :: Abjection (n.) The state of being rejected or cast out.
Random :: Random (n.) Distance to which a missile is cast; range; reach; as, the random of a rifle ball..
Parnassus :: Parnassus (n.) A mountain in Greece, sacred to Apollo and the Muses, and famous for a temple of Apollo and for the Castalian spring..
Bastile Bastille :: Bastile Bastille (n.) The Bastille, formerly a castle or fortress in Paris, used as a prison, especially for political offenders; hence, a rhetorical name for a prison..
Poll :: Poll (n.) The place where the votes are cast or recorded; as, to go to the polls..
Shedder :: Shedder (n.) A crab in the act of casting its shell, or immediately afterwards while still soft; -- applied especially to the edible crabs, which are most prized while in this state..
Elaiodic :: Elaiodic (a.) Derived from castor oil; ricinoleic; as, elaiodic acid..
Depressive :: Depressive (a.) Able or tending to depress or cast down.
Bessemer Steel :: Bessemer steel () Steel made directly from cast iron, by burning out a portion of the carbon and other impurities that the latter contains, through the agency of a blast of air which is forced through the molten metal; -- so called from Sir Henry Bessemer, an English engineer, the inventor of the process..
Defiance :: Defiance (n.) A casting aside; renunciation; rejection.
Register :: Register (n.) The inner part of the mold in which types are cast.
Castrate :: Castrate (v. t.) To cut or take out; esp. to remove anything erroneous, or objectionable from, as the obscene parts of a writing; to expurgate..
Steel :: Steel (n.) A variety of iron intermediate in composition and properties between wrought iron and cast iron (containing between one half of one per cent and one and a half per cent of carbon), and consisting of an alloy of iron with an iron carbide. Steel, unlike wrought iron, can be tempered, and retains magnetism. Its malleability decreases, and fusibility increases, with an increase in carbon..
Plasterer :: Plasterer (n.) One who makes plaster casts.
Pitching :: Pitching (n.) The act of throwing or casting; a cast; a pitch; as, wild pitching in baseball..
Downlooked :: Downlooked (a.) Having a downcast countenance; dejected; gloomy; sullen.
Retort :: Retort (v. t.) A vessel in which substances are subjected to distillation or decomposition by heat. It is made of different forms and materials for different uses, as a bulb of glass with a curved beak to enter a receiver for general chemical operations, or a cylinder or semicylinder of cast iron for the manufacture of gas in gas works..
Castration :: Castration (n.) The act of castrating.
Snub :: Snub (v. t.) To check, stop, or rebuke, with a tart, sarcastic reply or remark; to reprimand; to check..
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