kest

Verb

cast (third-person singular simple present casts, present participle casting, simple past and past participle cast or (nonstandard) casted)

1. (physical) To move, or be moved, away.
   • Many savages believe that by annually casting their skins serpents and other animals renew their youth and live for ever.1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 50
   1. (literary, physical) To throw.
      • 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[…].c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
   2. (physical) To throw forward (a fishing line, net etc.) into the sea.
      • 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)[…].1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew iiij
   3. (physical) To throw down or aside.
      • 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 […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
   4. (physical) To throw off (the skin) as a process of growth; to shed the hair or fur of the coat.
   5. (physical) To shed leaves or fruit prematurely.

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