CAST (2)

cast (2). Cast, v. cast, pret. cast, pa. to throw, sling, shed, contrive, form, grow crooked, overcome

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Cast (?), v. i. 1. 1. To throw, as a line in angling, esp, with a fly hook.
2. 2. (Naut.) To turn the head of a vessel around from the wind in getting under weigh.
Weigh anchor, cast to starboard. Totten. 3. 3. To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan; as, to cast about for reasons.
She . . . cast in her mind what manner of salution this should be. Luke. i. 29. 4. 4. To calculate; to compute.
Who would cast and balance at a desk. Tennyson. 5. 5. To receive form or shape in a mold.
It will not run thin, so as to cast and mold. Woodward. 6. 6. To warp; to become twisted out of shape.
Stuff is said to cast or warp when . . . it alters its flatness or straightness. Moxon. 7. 7. To vomit.
These verses . . . make me ready to cast. B. Jonson.