cast

1. cast (verb) — sense 1

Definition: To move, or be moved, away.

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

2. cast (verb) — sense 2

Definition: To move, or be moved, away.: To throw.

Example: 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[…].

3. cast (verb) — sense 3

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

Example: 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)[…].

4. cast (noun) — sense 4

Definition: An act of throwing.

5. cast (noun) — sense 5

Definition: The number rolled on a die when it is thrown.

6. cast (noun) — sense 6

Definition: An instance of throwing out a fishing line.

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

7. cast (adj) — sense 7

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