cast vb. (the more unusual senses are)
1.
to throw
in wrestling
Mac. II. iii. 47
“though he took up my
legs sometime, yet I made a shift to
him.”
2.
to drive away
1H6 V. iv. 146
“Be cast from
possibility of all,”
Cym. V. iv. 60
“To be exil'd, . . . and
cast From her his dearest one.”
3.
to throw up, vomit
Tp. II. i. 259
“We all were
seaswallow'd, though some cast
again,”
Meas. III. i. 91
“His filth within being
cast”
; esp. “cast up”
H5 III. ii. 59, Per. II. i. 47.
4.
to throw off, get rid
of
Oth. I. i. 150
“the state . . . Cannot
with safety cast him,”
V. ii. 326.
5.
to reckon, calculate
2H4 I. i. 166
“You cast the event of
war, . . . And summ'd the account of
chance,”
2H6 IV. ii. 97
“write and read and cast
accompt”
; absol.
Ham. II. i. 115
“To beyond
ourselves,”
Ant. III. ii. 17. cast away, to
wreck (a ship) Mer.V. III. i.
108,
John V. v. 13
“cast away . . . on
Goodwin Sands,”
Sonn. lxxx. 13; c. by, to throw
aside Rom. I. i. 99.
