CARTEL — CASTLING NWAD CARTEL.1

CARTEL, n. NWAD CARTEL.1

1. A writing or agreement between states at war, for the exchange of prisoners, or for some mutual advantage; also, a vessel employed to convey the messenger on this occasion. NWAD CARTEL.2

2. A letter of defiance or challenge; a challenge to single combat. This sense the word has still in France and Italy; but with us it is obsolete. NWAD CARTEL.3

Cartel-ship, is a ship employed in the exchange of prisoners, or in carrying propositions to an enemy. NWAD CARTEL.4

CARTEL, v.i. To defy. NWAD CARTEL.5

CARTER, n. The man who drives a cart, or whose occupation is to drive a cart. NWAD CARTER.1

CARTESIAN, a. Pertaining to the philosopher Des Cartes, or to his philosophy, which taught the doctrine of vortexes round the sun and planets. NWAD CARTESIAN.1

CARTESIAN, n. One who adopts the philosophy of Des Cartes. NWAD CARTESIAN.2

CARTHAGINIAN, a. Pertaining to ancient Carthage, a celebrated city on the Northern Coast of Africa, about twelve miles from the modern Tunis. It was founded by the Phenicians, and destroyed by the Romans. NWAD CARTHAGINIAN.1

CARTHAGINIAN, n. An inhabitant or native of Carthage. NWAD CARTHAGINIAN.2

CARTHAMUS, n. The generic name of Bastard Saffron. [See Safflower.] NWAD CARTHAMUS.1

CARTHUSIAN, n. One of an order of monks, so called from Chartreuse, the place of their institution. They are remarkable for their austerity. They cannot go out of their cells, except to church, nor speak to any person without leave. NWAD CARTHUSIAN.1

CARTILAGE, n. Gristle; a smooth, solid, elastic substance, softer than bone, of a pearly color and homogeneous texture, without cells or cavities. It is invested with a particular membrane called perichondrium, which in the articular cartilages, is a reflexion of the synovial membrane. NWAD CARTILAGE.1

CARTILAGINOUS, a. NWAD CARTILAGINOUS.1

1. Pertaining to or resembling a cartilage; gristly; consisting of cartilage. NWAD CARTILAGINOUS.2

2. In ichthyology, cartilaginous fishes are those whose muscles are supported by cartilages instead of bones, or whose skeleton is cartilaginous. Many of these are viviparous, as the ray and shark, whose young are excluded from an egg hatched within them. Others are oviparous, as the sturgeon. Some of them have no gill-covers, but breathe through apertures, on the sides of the neck or top of the head; others have gill-covers, but destitute of bony rays. NWAD CARTILAGINOUS.3

CARTOON, n. In painting, a design drawn on strong paper, to be afterward calked through and transferred on the fresh plaster of a wall, to be painted in fresco. Also, a design colored for working in Mosaic, tapestry, etc. NWAD CARTOON.1

CARTOUCH, n. NWAD CARTOUCH.1

1. A case of wood, about three inches thick at the bottom girt with marlin, holding about four hundred musket balls, and six or eight iron balls of a pound weight, to be fired out of a howitz, for defending a pass. A cartouch is sometimes made of a globular form, and filled with a ball of a pound weight; and sometimes for guns, being of a ball of a half or quarter of a pound weight, tied in the form of a bunch of grapes, on a tompion of wood and coated over. NWAD CARTOUCH.2

2. A portable box for charges. [See Cartridge-box.] NWAD CARTOUCH.3

3. A roll or scroll on the cornice of a column. NWAD CARTOUCH.4

CARTRIDGE, n. [a corruption of cartouch.] A case of pasteboard or parchment, holding the charge of powder or powder and balls, for a cannon, mortar, musket or pistol. The cartridges for small arms, prepared for battle, contain the powder and ball; those for cannon and mortars are made of paste-board, or tin. Cartridges, without balls, are called blank cartridges. NWAD CARTRIDGE.1

CARTRIDGE-BOX, n. A case, usually of wood, covered with leather, with cells for cartridges. It is worn upon a belt thrown over the left shoulder, and hangs a little below the pocket-hole on the right side. NWAD CARTRIDGE-BOX.1

CARTULARY, n. A register-book, or record, as of a monastery. Blackstone writes it chartulary; and primarily it signifies the officer who has the care of charters and other public papers. NWAD CARTULARY.1

CARUCATE, n. As much land as one team can plow in the year. NWAD CARUCATE.1

CARUNCLE, n. NWAD CARUNCLE.1

1. A small fleshy excrescence, either natural or morbid. NWAD CARUNCLE.2

2. The fleshy comb on the head of a fowl. NWAD CARUNCLE.3

CARUNCULAR, a. In the form of a caruncle. NWAD CARUNCULAR.1

CARUNCULATED, a. Having a fleshy excrescence, or soft fleshy protuberance. NWAD CARUNCULATED.1

CARVE, v.t. NWAD CARVE.1

1. To cut into small pieces or slices, as meat at tale. NWAD CARVE.2

2. To cut wood, stone or other material into some particular form, with an instrument, usually a chisel; to engrave; to cut figures or devices on hard materials. NWAD CARVE.3

3. To make or shape by cutting; as, to carve an image. NWAD CARVE.4

4. To apportion; to distribute; to provide at pleasure; to select and take, as to ones self, or to select and give to another. NWAD CARVE.5

5. To cut; to hew. NWAD CARVE.6

To care out, is to cut out, or to lay out, by design; to plan. NWAD CARVE.7

CARVE, v.t. NWAD CARVE.8

1. To cut up meat; followed sometimes by for; as, to carve for all the quests. NWAD CARVE.9

2. To exercise the trade of a sculptor. NWAD CARVE.10

3. To engrave or cut figures. NWAD CARVE.11

CARVE, n. A carucate. NWAD CARVE.12

CARVED, pp. Cut or divided; engraved; formed by carving. NWAD CARVED.1

CARVEL, n. [See Caravel.] The urtica marina, or sea blubber. NWAD CARVEL.1

CARVER, n. NWAD CARVER.1

1. One who cuts meat at tale; a sculptor; one who apportions or distributes at will, or one who takes or gives at pleasure. NWAD CARVER.2

2. A large table knife for carving. NWAD CARVER.3

CARVING, ppr. Cutting, dividing, as meat; cutting in stone, wood or metal; apportioning; distributing. NWAD CARVING.1

CARVING, n. The act of cutting, as meat; the act or art of cutting figures in wood or stone; sculpture; figures carved. NWAD CARVING.2

CARYATES, CARYATIDES, n. In architecture, figures of women dressed in long robes, after the Asiatic manner, serving to support entablatures. The Athenians had been long at war with the Caryans; the latter being at length vanquished and their wives led captive, the Greeks, to perpetuate this event, erected trophies, in which figures of women, dressed in the Caryatic manner, were used to support entablatures. Other female figures were afterwards used in the same manner, but they were called by the same name. NWAD CARYATES.1

They were called Caryatides, from Carya, a city in the Peloponnesus, which sided with the Persians, and on that account was sacked by the other Greeks, its males butchered, and its females reduced to slavery. NWAD CARYATES.2

CARYATIC, a. Pertaining to the Caryans or Caryatides. NWAD CARYATIC.1

CARYOPHYLLEOUS, n. Having five petals with long claws, in a tubular calyx; applied to flowers. NWAD CARYOPHYLLEOUS.1

CARYOPHYLLOID, n. A species of mica, the scales of which are concentric and perpendicular. NWAD CARYOPHYLLOID.1

CASARCA, n. A fowl of the genus Anas, called also ruddy-goose, larger than a mallard, found in Russia and Siberia. NWAD CASARCA.1

CASCABEL, n. The knob or pummelion of a cannon. NWAD CASCABEL.1

CASCADE, n. A waterfall; a steep fall or flowing of water over a precipice, in a river or natural stream; or an artificial fall in a garden. The word is applied to falls that are less than a cataract. NWAD CASCADE.1

CASCALHO, n. In Brazil, a deposit of pebbles, gravel and sand in which the diamond is usually found. NWAD CASCALHO.1

CASE, n. NWAD CASE.1

1. A covering, box or sheath; that which incloses or contains; as a case for knives; a case for books; a watch case; a printers case; a pillow case. NWAD CASE.2

2. The outer part of a building. NWAD CASE.3

3. A certain quantity; as a case of crown glass. NWAD CASE.4

4. A building unfurnished. NWAD CASE.5

CASE, v.t. NWAD CASE.6

1. To cover with a case; to surround with any material that shall inclose or defend. NWAD CASE.7

2. To put in a case or box. NWAD CASE.8

3. To strip off a case, covering, or the skin. NWAD CASE.9

CASE, n. Literally, that which falls, comes, or happens; an event. Hence, the particular state, condition, or circumstances that befall a person, or in which he is placed; as, make the case your own; this is the case with my friend; this is his present case. NWAD CASE.10

2. The state of the body, with respect to health or disease; as a case of fever; he is in a consumptive case; his case is desperate. NWAD CASE.11

To be in good case, is to be fat, and this phrase is customarily abridged, to be in case; applied to beasts, but not to men, except in a sense rather ludicrous. NWAD CASE.12

3. A question; a state of facts involving a question for discussion or decision; as, the lawyer stated the case. NWAD CASE.13

4. A cause or suit in court; as, the case was tried at the last term. In this sense, case is nearly synonymous with cause, whose primary sense is nearly the same. NWAD CASE.14

5. In grammar, the inflection of nouns, or a change of termination, to express a difference of relation in the word to others, or to the thing represented. The variation of nouns and adjectives is called declension; both case and declension signifying, falling or leaning from the first state of the word. Thus, liber is a book; libri, of a book; libro, to a book. In other words, case denotes a variation in the termination of a noun, to show how the noun acts upon the verb with which it is connected, or is acted upon by it, or by an agent. The cases, except the nominative, are called oblique cases. NWAD CASE.15

In case, is a phrase denoting condition or supposition; literally, in the event or contingency; if it should so fall out or happen. NWAD CASE.16

Put the case, suppose the event, or a certain state of things. NWAD CASE.17

Action on the case, in law, is an action in which the whole cause of complaint is set out in the writ. NWAD CASE.18

CASE, v.i. To put cases. NWAD CASE.19

CASED, pp. Covered with a case. NWAD CASED.1

CASE-HARDEN, v.t. To harden the outer part or superficies, as of iron, by converting it into steel. This may be done by putting the iron into an iron box, with a cement, and exposing it, for some hours, to a red heat. NWAD CASE-HARDEN.1

CASEIC, a. The caseic acid is the acid of cheese, or a substance so called, extracted from cheese. NWAD CASEIC.1

CASE-KNIFE, n. A large table knife, often kept in a case. NWAD CASE-KNIFE.1

CASEMATE, n. NWAD CASEMATE.1

1. In fortification, a vault of masons work in the flank of a bastion, next to the curtain, somewhat inclined toward the capital of the bastion, serving as a battery to defend the face of the opposite bastion, and the moat or ditch. NWAD CASEMATE.2

2. A well, with its subterraneous branches, dug in the passage of the bastion, till the miner is heard at work, and air given to the mine. NWAD CASEMATE.3

CASEMENT, n. NWAD CASEMENT.1

1. A hollow molding, usually one sixth or one fourth of a circle. NWAD CASEMENT.2

2. A little movable window, usually within a large, made to turn and open on hinges. NWAD CASEMENT.3

CASEOUS, a. Like cheese; having the qualities of cheese. NWAD CASEOUS.1

CASERN, n. A lodging for soldiers in garrison towns, usually near the rampart, containing each two beds. NWAD CASERN.1

CASESHOT, n. Musket balls, stones, old iron, etc., put in cases, to be discharged from cannon. NWAD CASESHOT.1

CASE-WORM, n. A worm that makes itself a case. NWAD CASE-WORM.1

CASH, n. Money; primarily, ready money, money in chest or on hand, in bank or at command. It is properly silver and gold; but since the institution of banks, it denotes also bank notes equivalent to money. To pay in cash is opposed to payment in goods, commodities, or labor, as in barter. NWAD CASH.1

CASH, v.t. NWAD CASH.2

1. To turn into money, or to exchange for money; as, to cash a note or an order. NWAD CASH.3

2. To pay money for; as, the clerks of a bank cash notes when presented. NWAD CASH.4

CASH, v.t. To discard. NWAD CASH.5

CASH-ACCOUNT, n. An account of money received, paid, or on hand. NWAD CASH-ACCOUNT.1

CASH-BOOK, n. A book in which is kept a register or account of money. NWAD CASH-BOOK.1

CASH-KEEPER, n. One entrusted with the keeping of money. NWAD CASH-KEEPER.1

CASHEW-NUT, n. A tree of the West-Indies, Anacardium, bearing a kidney-shaped nut. The fruit is as large as an orange, and full of an acid juice, which is often used to make punch. To the apex of this fruit grows a nut, of the size of a hares kidney, the shell of which is hard, and the kernel, which is sweet, is covered with a thin film. NWAD CASHEW-NUT.1

CASHIER, n. One who has charge of money; as cash-keeper. In a banking institution, the cashier is the officer who superintends the books, payments and receipts of the bank. He also signs or countersigns the notes, and superintends all the transactions, under the order of the directors. NWAD CASHIER.1

CASHIER, v.t. NWAD CASHIER.2

1. To dismiss from an office or place of trust, by annulling the commission; to break, as for mal-conduct, and therefore with reproach; as, to cashier an officer of the army. NWAD CASHIER.3

2. To dismiss or discard from service or from society. NWAD CASHIER.4

3. To reject; to annul or vacate. NWAD CASHIER.5

CASHIERED, pp. Dismissed; discarded; annulled. NWAD CASHIERED.1

CASHIERER, n. One who rejects discards or breaks; as a cashierer of monarchs. NWAD CASHIERER.1

CASHIERING, ppr. Discarding; dismissing from service. NWAD CASHIERING.1

CASHOO, n. The juice or gum of a tree in the East Indies. NWAD CASHOO.1

CASING, ppr. Covering with a case. NWAD CASING.1

CASING, n. NWAD CASING.2

1. The act or operation of plastering a house with mortar on the outside, and striking it while wet, by a ruler, with the corner of a trowel, to make it resemble the joints of free-stone. NWAD CASING.3

2. A covering; a case. NWAD CASING.4

CASK, n. A head-piece; a helmet; a piece of defensive armor, to cover and protect the head and neck, in battle. NWAD CASK.1

CASK, n. A close vessel for containing liquors, formed by staves, heading and hoops. This is a general term comprehending the pipe, hogshead, butt, barrel, etc. NWAD CASK.2

CASKET, n. NWAD CASKET.1

1. A small chest or box, for jewels or other small articles. NWAD CASKET.2

2. In seamens language, a small rope, fastened to gromets or little rings upon the yards, used to fasten the sail to the yard in furling. NWAD CASKET.3

This is usually written gasket. NWAD CASKET.4

CASPIAN, a. An epithet given to a large lake between Persia and Astracan, called the Caspian Sea. NWAD CASPIAN.1

CASS, v.t. To quash; to defeat; to annul. NWAD CASS.1

CASSADA, CASSAVI, n. A plant, of the genus Jatropha, of different species. The roots of the manihot or bitter cassada, and of the janipha, are made into a kind of bread which serves for food to the natives of Africa and the West Indies, and they are also roasted and eaten like potatoes. They yield also a great quantity of starch, which the Brasilians export in small lumps under the name of tapioca. NWAD CASSADA.1

CASSAMUNAIR, n. An aromatic vegetable brought from the east. NWAD CASSAMUNAIR.1

CASSATE, v.t. To vacate, annul, or make void. NWAD CASSATE.1

CASSATION, n. The act of annulling. In France there is a court of Cassation. NWAD CASSATION.1

CASSIA, n. A genus of plants of many species, among which are the fistula, or purging cassia, and the senna. The former is a native of Egypt and both Indies; the latter is a native of Persia, Syria and Arabia. The latter is a shrubby plant, the leaves of which are much used in medicine. The purging cassia is the pulp of the pods, and is a gentle laxative. NWAD CASSIA.1

Cassia is also the name of a species of Laurus, the bark of which usually passes under the name of cinnamon, differing from real cinnamon chiefly in the strength of its qualities. From a plant of this kind was extracted an aromatic oil, used as a perfume by the Jews. NWAD CASSIA.2

CASSIDONY, n. A species of plant, Gnaphalium, cotton-weed, cudweed or goldylocks; also, Lavandula stoechas or French lavender. NWAD CASSIDONY.1

CASSIMER, n. A thin twilled woolen cloth. NWAD CASSIMER.1

CASSINO, n. A game at cards. NWAD CASSINO.1

CASSIOBURY, n. A species of plant, of the genus Cassine, of which the most remarkable species is the Yapon of the Southern States of America. The berries are of a beautiful red color. NWAD CASSIOBURY.1

The Yapon is now arranged in the genus Ilex. NWAD CASSIOBURY.2

CASSIOPEIA, n. A constellation in the Northern Hemisphere, situated near to Cepheus, as the fabulous Cassiopeia was wife to Cepheus, king of Ethiopia. It contains fifty five stars. NWAD CASSIOPEIA.1

CASSITERIA, n. A kind of crystals which appear to have an admixture of tin. The color is brown or whitish. NWAD CASSITERIA.1

CASSOCK, n. A robe or gown worn over the other garments, particularly by the clergy. A close garment, now generally that which clergymen wear under their gowns. NWAD CASSOCK.1

CASSOCKED, a. Clothed with a cassock. The cassockd huntsman. NWAD CASSOCKED.1

CASSONADE, n. Cask-sugar; sugar not refined. NWAD CASSONADE.1

CASSOWARY, n. A large fowl of the genus Struthio, nearly as large as the ostrich, but its legs are thicker and stronger in proportion. The wings are so small as not to appear, being hid under the feathers. The head is armed with a helmet of horny substance, consisting of plates one over another. It runs with great rapidity, outstripping the swiftest racer. It is now arranged in a separate genus, Casuarius. NWAD CASSOWARY.1

CAST, v.t. pret. And pp. cast. NWAD CAST.1

1. To throw, fling or send; that is, to drive from, by force, as from the hand, or from an engine. NWAD CAST.2

Hagar cast the child under a shrub. Genesis 21:15. NWAD CAST.3

Uzziah prepared slings to cast stones. 2 Chronicles 26:14. NWAD CAST.4

2. To sow; to scatter seed. NWAD CAST.5

If a man should cast seed into the ground. Mark 4:26. NWAD CAST.6

3. To drive or impel by violence. NWAD CAST.7

A mighty west wind cast the locusts into the sea. Exodus 10:19. NWAD CAST.8

4. To shed or throw off; as, trees cast their fruit; a serpent casts his skin. NWAD CAST.9

5. To throw or let fall; as, to cast anchor. Hence, to east anchor is to moor, as a ship, the effect of casting the anchor. NWAD CAST.10

6. To throw, as dice or lots; as, to cast lots. NWAD CAST.11

7. To throw on the ground, as in wrestling. NWAD CAST.12

8. To throw away, as worthless. NWAD CAST.13

His carcase was cast in the way. 1 Kings 13:24. NWAD CAST.14

9. To emit or throw out. NWAD CAST.15

This casts a sulphurous smell. NWAD CAST.16

10. To throw, to extend, as a trench or rampart, including the sense of digging, raising, or forming. NWAD CAST.17

Thy enemies shall cast a trench about thee. Luke 19:43. NWAD CAST.18

11. To thrust; as, to cast into prison. NWAD CAST.19

12. To put, or set, in a particular state. NWAD CAST.20

Both chariot and horse were cast into a dead sleep. Psalm 76:6. NWAD CAST.21

13. To condemn; to convict; as a criminal. NWAD CAST.22

Both tried and both were cast. NWAD CAST.23

14. To overcome in a civil suit, or in any contest of strength or skill; as, to cast the defendant or an antagonist. NWAD CAST.24

15. To cashier or discard. NWAD CAST.25

16. To lay aside, as unfit for use; to reject; as a garment. NWAD CAST.26

17. To make to preponderate; to throw into one scale, for the purpose of giving it superior weight; to decide by a vote that gives a superiority in numbers; as, to cast the balance in ones favor; a casting vote or voice. NWAD CAST.27

18. To throw together several particulars, to find the sum; as, to cast accounts. Hence, to throw together circumstances and facts, to find the result; to compute; to reckon; to calculate; as, to cast the event of war. NWAD CAST.28

To cast and see how many things there are which a man cannot do himself. NWAD CAST.29

19. To contrive; to plan. NWAD CAST.30

20. To judge, or to consider, in order to judge. NWAD CAST.31

21. To fix, or distribute the parts of a play among the actors. NWAD CAST.32

22. To throw, as the sight; to direct, or turn, as the eye; to glance; as, to cast a look, or glance, or the eye. NWAD CAST.33

23. To found; to form into a particular shape, by pouring liquid metal into a mold; to run; as, to cast cannon. NWAD CAST.34

Thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it. Exodus 25:12. NWAD CAST.35

24. Figuratively, to shape; to form by a model. NWAD CAST.36

25. To communicate; to spread over; as, to cast a luster upon posterity; to cast splendor upon actions, or light upon a subject. NWAD CAST.37

To cast aside, to dismiss or reject as useless or inconvenient. NWAD CAST.38

To cast away, to reject. Leviticus 26:44; Isaiah 5:24; Romans 11:1, 2. Also, to throw away; to lavish or waste by profusion; to turn to no use; as, to cast away life. NWAD CAST.39

Also, to wreck, as a ship. NWAD CAST.40

To cast by, to reject; to dismiss or discard with neglect or hate, or as useless. NWAD CAST.41

To cast down, to throw down; to deject or depress the mind. NWAD CAST.42

Why art thou cast down, O my soul. Psalm 42:5. NWAD CAST.43

To cast forth, to throw out, or eject, as from an inclosed place; to emit, or send abroad; to exhale. NWAD CAST.44

To cast off, to discard or reject; to drive away; to put off; to put away; to disburden. Among huntsmen, to leave behind, as dogs; to set loose, or free. Among seamen, to loose, or untie. NWAD CAST.45

To cast out, to send forth; to reject or turn out; to throw out, as words; to speak or give vent to. NWAD CAST.46

To cast up, to compute; to reckon; to calculate; as, to cast up accounts, or the cost. Also, to eject; to vomit. NWAD CAST.47

To cast on, to refer or resign to. NWAD CAST.48

To cast ones self on, to resign or yield ones self to the disposal of, without reserve. NWAD CAST.49

To cast young, to miscarry; to suffer abortion. Genesis 31:38. NWAD CAST.50

To cast in the teeth, to upbraid; to charge; to twit. So in Danish, kaster in I noesen, to cast in the nose. NWAD CAST.51

CAST, v.i. NWAD CAST.52

1. To throw forward, as the thoughts, with a view to some determination; or to turn or revolve in the mind; to contrive; sometimes followed by about. NWAD CAST.53

I cast in careful mind to seek her out. Spenser. NWAD CAST.54

To cast about how to perform or obtain. Bacon. NWAD CAST.55

2. To receive form or shape. NWAD CAST.56

Metal will cast and mold. NWAD CAST.57

3. To warp; to twist from regular shape. NWAD CAST.58

Stuff is said to cast or warp, when it alters its flatness or straightness. NWAD CAST.59

Note. Cast, like throw and warp, implies a winding motion. NWAD CAST.60

4. In seamens language, to fall off, or incline, so as to bring the side of a ship to the wind; applied particularly to a ship riding with her head to the wind, when her anchor is first loosened. NWAD CAST.61

CAST, n. NWAD CAST.62

1. The act of casting; a throw; the thing thrown; the form or state of throwing; kind or manner of throwing. NWAD CAST.63

2. The distance passed by a thing thrown; or the space through which a thing thrown may ordinarily pass; as, about a stones cast. Luke 22:41. NWAD CAST.64

3. A stroke; a touch. NWAD CAST.65

This was a cast of Woods politics. NWAD CAST.66

4. Motion or turn of the eye; direction, look or glance; a squinting. NWAD CAST.67

Thy let you see by one cast of the eye. NWAD CAST.68

5. A throw of dice; hence, a state of chance or hazard. NWAD CAST.69

It is an even cast, whether the army should march this way or that way. NWAD CAST.70

Hence the phrase, the last cast, is used to denote that all is ventured on one throw, or one effort. NWAD CAST.71

6. Form; shape. NWAD CAST.72

A heroic poem in another cast. NWAD CAST.73

7. A tinge; a slight coloring, or slight degree of a color; as a cast of green. Hence, a slight alteration in external appearance. NWAD CAST.74

The native hue of resolution is sicklied oer with the pale cast of thought. Shak. NWAD CAST.75

8. Manner; air; mien; as, a peculiar cast of countenance. This sense implies, the turn or manner of throwing; as, the neat cast f verse. NWAD CAST.76

9. A flight; a number of hawks let go at once. NWAD CAST.77

10. A small statue of bronze. NWAD CAST.78

11. Among founders, a tube of wax, fitted into a mold, to give shape to metal. NWAD CAST.79

12. A cylindrical piece of brass or copper, slit in two lengthwise, to form a canal or conduit, in a mold, for conveying metal. NWAD CAST.80

13. Among plumbers, a little brazen funnel, at one end of a mold, for casting pipes without sodering, by means of which the melted metal is poured into the mold. NWAD CAST.81

14. A breed, race, lineage, kind, sort. NWAD CAST.82

15. In Hindoostan, a tribe or class of the same rank or profession; as the cast of Bramins, or priests; of rajahs, or princes; of choutres, or artificers; and of parias, or poor people. Or according to some writers, of Bramins; of cuttery, or soldiers; of shuddery, or merchants; and of wyse, or mechanics. NWAD CAST.83

The four casts of the Hindoos are the Brahmins or sacred order; the Chechteres or soldiers and rulers; the Bice, Vaissya, or husbandmen and merchants; and the Sooders, Sudras, or laborers and mechanics. NWAD CAST.84

16. A trick. NWAD CAST.85

CASTALIAN, a. Pertaining to Castalia, a cool spring on Parnassus, sacred to the muses; as Castalian fount. NWAD CASTALIAN.1

CASTANET, n. An instrument of music formed of small concave shells of ivory or hard wood, shaped like spoons, placed together, fastened to the thumb and beat with the middle finger. This instrument is used by the Spaniards, Moors and Bohemians, as an accompaniment to their dances, sarabands and guitars. NWAD CASTANET.1

CASTAWAY, n. That which is thrown away. A person abandoned by God, as unworthy of his favor; a reprobate. 1 Corinthians 9:27. NWAD CASTAWAY.1

CASTAWAY, a. Rejected; useless; of no value. NWAD CASTAWAY.2

CASTED, pp. For cast, is not in use. NWAD CASTED.1

CASTELLAN, n. A governor or constable of a castle. In Poland, the name of a dignity or charge; a kind of lieutenant of a province, commanding part of a palatinate under a palatine. The castellans are senators, of the lower class, sitting, in the diets, on low seats behind the palatines. NWAD CASTELLAN.1

CASTELLANY, n. [See Castle.] The lordship belonging to a castle; or the extent, of its land and jurisdiction. NWAD CASTELLANY.1

CASTELLATED, a. NWAD CASTELLATED.1

1. Inclosed in a building, as a fountain or cistern. NWAD CASTELLATED.2

2. Adorned with turrets, and battlements, like a castle. NWAD CASTELLATED.3

CASTELLATION, n. The act of fortifying a house and rendering it a castle. NWAD CASTELLATION.1

CASTER, n. NWAD CASTER.1

1. One who throws or casts; one who computes; a calculator; one who calculates fortunes. NWAD CASTER.2

2. A small phial or vessel for the table; as a set of casters. NWAD CASTER.3

3. A small wheel on a swivel, on which furniture is cast, or rolled, on the floor. NWAD CASTER.4

CASTIGATE, v.t. To chastise; to punish by stripes; to correct; to chasten; to check. NWAD CASTIGATE.1

CASTIGATED, pp. Punished; corrected. NWAD CASTIGATED.1

CASTIGATING, ppr. Punishing; correcting; chastising. NWAD CASTIGATING.1

CASTIGATION, n. NWAD CASTIGATION.1

1. Punishment; correction; penance; discipline; emendation; restraint. NWAD CASTIGATION.2

2. Among the Romans, a military punishment inflicted on offenders, by beating with a wand or switch. NWAD CASTIGATION.3

CASTIGATOR, n. One who corrects. NWAD CASTIGATOR.1

CASTIGATORY, a. Tending to correction; corrective; punitive. NWAD CASTIGATORY.1

CASTIGATORY, n. An engine formerly used to punish and correct arrant scolds, called also a ducking stool, or trebucket. NWAD CASTIGATORY.2

CASTILE-SOAP, n. A kind of pure, refined soap. NWAD CASTILE-SOAP.1

CASTILIAN, a. Pertaining to Castile in Spain. NWAD CASTILIAN.1

CASTILIAN, n. An inhabitant or native of Castile in Spain. NWAD CASTILIAN.2

CASTING, ppr. Throwing; sending; computing; calculating; turning; giving a preponderancy; deciding; running, or throwing into a mold to give shape. [See Cast.] NWAD CASTING.1

CASTING, n. NWAD CASTING.2

1. The act of casting or founding. NWAD CASTING.3

2. That which is cast in a mold; any vessel formed by casting melted metal into a mold, or in sand. NWAD CASTING.4

3. The taking of casts and impressions of figures, busts, medals, etc. NWAD CASTING.5

CASTING-NET, n. A net which is cast and drawn, in distinction from a net that is set and left. NWAD CASTING-NET.1

CASTING-VOTE, CASTING-VOICE, n. The vote of a presiding officer, in an assembly or council, which decides a question, when the votes of the assembly or house are equally divided between the affirmative and negative. NWAD CASTING-VOTE.1

When there was an equal vote, the Governor had the casting voice. NWAD CASTING-VOTE.2

CASTLE, n. NWAD CASTLE.1

1. A house fortified for defense against an enemy; a fortress. The term seems to include the house and the walls or other works around it. In old writers, the word is used for a town or village fortified. NWAD CASTLE.2

2. The house or mansion of a nobleman or prince. NWAD CASTLE.3

3. In a ship, there are two parts called by this name; the forecastle, a short deck in the fore part of the ship, above the upper deck; and the hindcastle, at the stern. NWAD CASTLE.4

Castle in the air, a visionary project; a scheme that has no solid foundation. NWAD CASTLE.5

CASTLE, v.t. In the game of chess, to cover the king with a castle, by a certain move. NWAD CASTLE.6

CASTLE-BUILDER, n. One who forms visionary schemes. NWAD CASTLE-BUILDER.1

CASTLE-BUILDER, n. The act of building castles in the air. NWAD CASTLE-BUILDER.2

CASTLE-CROWNED, a. Crowned with a castle. NWAD CASTLE-CROWNED.1

CASTLED, a. Furnished with castles; as a castled elephant. NWAD CASTLED.1

CASTLE-GUARD, n. A feudal tenure, or knight service, which obliged the tenant to perform service within the realm, without limitation of time. NWAD CASTLE-GUARD.1

CASTLERY, n. The government of a castle. NWAD CASTLERY.1

CASTLET, n. A small castle. NWAD CASTLET.1

CASTLE-WARD, n. An imposition laid upon subjects dwelling within a certain distance of a castle, for the purpose of maintaining watch and ward in the castle. NWAD CASTLE-WARD.1

CASTLING, n. An abortion or abortive. NWAD CASTLING.1