cast

To move, or be moved, away.physical

• Many savages believe that by annually casting their skins serpents and other animals renew their youth and live for ever.

To move, or be moved, away.; To throw.literaryphysical

• Why then a Ladder quaintly made of Cords / To cast vp, with a paire of anchoring hookes, / Would serue to scale another Hero's towre[…].
• The more, an' please your honour, the pity, said the Corporal; in uttering which, he cast his spade into the wheelbarrow[…].

To move, or be moved, away.; To throw forward (a fishing line, net etc.) into the sea.physical

• As Jesus walked by the see off Galile, he sawe two brethren: Simon which was called Peter, and Andrew his brother, castynge a neet into the see (for they were fisshers)[…].

To move, or be moved, away.; To throw down or aside.physical

• So she to Guyon offred it to tast; / Who taking it out of her tender hond, / The cup to ground did violently cast, / That all in peeces it was broken fond […]
• it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

To move, or be moved, away.; To throw off (the skin) as a process of growth; to shed the hair or fur of the coat.physical

To move, or be moved, away.; To shed leaves or fruit prematurely.physical

To move, or be moved, away.; To remove, take off (clothes).physical

• when the serjeant saw me, he cast his coat and put it on me, and they carried me on their shoulders to a village where the wounded were and our surgeons[…].
• You know the saying, "Ne'er cast a clout till May is out"? Well, personally, I'm bored of my winter clothes by March.

To move, or be moved, away.; To heave the lead and line in order to ascertain the depth of water.physical

To move, or be moved, away.; To vomit.obsoletephysical

• These verses[…]make me ready to cast.

To move, or be moved, away.; To throw up, as a mound, or rampart.archaicphysical

• Thine enemies shall cast a trench [bank] about thee.

An act of throwing.

The number rolled on a die when it is thrown.

An instance of throwing out a fishing line.

• I went out on the timber boom and made a few casts, but with little success.

Something which has been thrown, dispersed etc.

• a cast of scatter'd dust

A small mass of earth "thrown off" or excreted by a worm.

• The area near the stream was covered with little bubbly worm casts.

The collective group of actors performing a play or production together.

• He’s in the cast of Oliver.
• The cast was praised for a fine performance.

The casting procedure.

• The men got into position for the cast, two at the ladle, two with long rods, all with heavy clothing.

An object made in a mould.

• The cast would need a great deal of machining to become a recognizable finished part.

A supportive and immobilising device used to help mend broken bones.

• The doctor put a cast on the boy’s broken arm.

The mould used to make cast objects.

• A plaster cast was made from his face.

Of an animal, such as a horse or sheep: Lying in a position from which it cannot rise on its own.not-comparable