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CAST (from the verb meaning " to throw "; the word is Scand. in origin, cf. See also: main uses of the word; for the throwing of dice, with the figurative sense of a chance or opportunity, as in " at the last cast "; for the throwing of a fisherman's See also: line in fly-fishing; for hounds spreading out in See also: search of a lost See also: scent; or, with the further meaning of a See also: twisted throw or turn, for a slight squint in the See also: eye
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" Cast " is applied to a measure of See also: herrings or other See also: fish, being the amount taken in two hands to be thrown into a vessel, and similarly to a See also: potter's measure for a certain quantity of See also: clay; in fishing, to the casting line of gut with fly attached; to the hard refuse thrown out of the crop of a See also: bird of prey, and to the coils of See also: earth thrown up by earth-See also: worms
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From the old method, in making calculations, of using counters, which were thus " thrown " up into a heap, is probably derived the meaning of " cast " for the " casting up " of figures in an account
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Further, the word is found for a See also: mould for the casting of metals, and more particularly for the copy of an See also: original statue or See also: relief taken from a mould; similarly, of fossils, for the See also: mineral filling of the empty mould See also: left by the organism
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See also: Special uses of the word are also found in the theatrical See also: term for the See also: assignment of particular parts to the actors and actresses in a See also: play, and in the many figurative senses of a type or stamp, as of features or characters
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