cast

  • 61cast —   1. To throw. Ho olei, nou, kiola, lū.    ♦ To cast a shadow, ili ke aka.    ♦ To cast a stone in a sling, ma a.    ♦ Cast down (sad), lu ulu u, oupē, kaumaha.   2. To cast for fish. Kākele, kā ili, hī, ho okelekele, kīolaola.   3. To cast… …

    English-Hawaiian dictionary

  • 62cast —    1. to give birth prematurely    Standard English of quadrupeds, from the meaning to cause to fall:     Just a pair still born at the hinner een Puir dwarfed last anes, Wee, deid, cast anes. (Lumsden, 1892, writing about lambs: hinner een means …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 63cast on — phrasal verb [intransitive/transitive] Word forms cast on : present tense I/you/we/they cast on he/she/it casts on present participle casting on past tense cast on past participle cast on to start a piece of knitting by making the first row of… …

    English dictionary

  • 64cast up — {v.}, {literary} 1. To turn or direct upward; raise. * /The dying missionary cast up his eyes to heaven and prayed./ 2. {archaic} To do sums; do a problem in addition; add. * /Cast up 15, 43, 27, and 18./ * /When John had all the figures, he cast …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 65cast up — {v.}, {literary} 1. To turn or direct upward; raise. * /The dying missionary cast up his eyes to heaven and prayed./ 2. {archaic} To do sums; do a problem in addition; add. * /Cast up 15, 43, 27, and 18./ * /When John had all the figures, he cast …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 66cast — Gun Gun (g[u^]n), n. [OE. gonne, gunne; of uncertain origin; cf. Ir., Gael., & LL. gunna, W. gum; possibly (like cannon) fr. L. canna reed, tube; or abbreviated fr. OF. mangonnel, E. mangonel, a machine for hurling stones.] 1. A weapon which… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 67cast\ up — v literary 1. To turn or direct upward; raise. The dying missionary cast up his eyes to heaven and prayed. 2. archaic To do sums; do a problem in addition; add. Cast up 15, 43, 27, and 18. When John had all the figures, he cast them up …

    Словарь американских идиом

  • 68cast — see ne’er cast a clout till May be out coming events cast their shadows before old sins cast long shadows do not throw pearls to swine …

    Proverbs new dictionary

  • 69Cast — This interesting and unusual name is an anglicized form of the Old Scottish name Carse, which has been changed by dialect. It is topographical for someone who lived at a stony or rocky place. The derivation being from the Old English pre 7th… …

    Surnames reference

  • 70cast in — v. to cast in one s lot with smb. ( to join forces with smb. ) * * * to cast in one s lot with smb. ( to join forces with smb. ) …

    Combinatory dictionary