Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 25
Cast (imp. & p. p.) of Cast.
Casting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cast.
Cast (v. t.) To send or drive by force; to throw; to fling; to hurl; to impel.
Uzziah prepared . . . slings to cast stones. -- 2 Chron. xxvi. 14.
Cast thy garment about thee, and follow me. -- Acts. xii. 8.
We must be cast upon a certain island. -- Acts. xxvii. 26.
Cast (v. t.) To direct or turn, as the eyes.
How earnestly he cast his eyes upon me! -- Shak.
Cast (v. t.) To drop; to deposit; as, to cast a ballot.
Cast (v. t.) To throw down, as in wrestling. -- Shak.
Cast (v. t.) To throw up, as a mound, or rampart.
Thine enemies shall cast a trench [bank] about thee. -- Luke xix. 48.
Cast (v. t.) To throw off; to eject; to shed; to lose.
His filth within being cast. -- Shak.
Neither shall your vine cast her fruit. -- Mal. iii. 11
The creatures that cast the skin are the snake, the viper, etc. -- Bacon.
Cast (v. t.) To bring forth prematurely; to slink.
Thy she-goats have not cast their young. -- Gen. xxi. 38.
Cast (v. t.) To throw out or emit; to exhale. [Obs.]
This . . . casts a sulphureous smell. -- Woodward.
Cast (v. t.) To cause to fall; to shed; to reflect; to throw; as, to cast a ray upon a screen; to cast light upon a subject.
Cast (v. t.) To impose; to bestow; to rest.
The government I cast upon my brother. -- Shak.
Cast thy burden upon the Lord. -- Ps. iv. 22.
Cast (v. t.) To dismiss; to discard; to cashier. [Obs.]
The state can not with safety cast him.
Cast (v. t.) To compute; to reckon; to calculate; as, to cast a horoscope. "Let it be cast and paid." -- Shak.
You cast the event of war, my noble lord. -- Shak.
Cast (v. t.) To contrive; to plan. [Archaic]
The cloister . . . had, I doubt not, been cast for [an orange-house]. -- Sir W. Temple.
Cast (v. t.) To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict; as, to be cast in damages.
She was cast to be hanged. -- Jeffrey.
Were the case referred to any competent judge, they would inevitably be cast. -- Dr. H. More.
Cast (v. t.) To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide; as, a casting voice.
How much interest casts the balance in cases dubious! -- South.
Cast (v. t.) To form into a particular shape, by pouring liquid metal or other material into a mold; to fashion; to found; as, to cast bells, stoves, bullets.
Cast (v. t.) (Print.) To stereotype or electrotype.
Cast (v. t.) To fix, distribute, or allot, as the parts of a play among actors; also to assign (an actor) for a part.
Our parts in the other world will be new cast. -- Addison.
To cast anchor (Naut.) See under Anchor.
To cast a horoscope, To calculate it.
To cast a horse, sheep, or other animal, To throw with the feet upwards, in such a manner as to prevent its rising again.
To cast a shoe, To throw off or lose a shoe, said of a horse or ox.
To cast aside, To throw or push aside; to neglect; to reject as useless or inconvenient.
To cast away. (a) To throw away; to lavish; to waste. "Cast away a life" -- Addison.
To cast away. (b) To reject; to let perish. "Cast away his people." -- Rom. xi. 1. "Cast one away." -- Shak.
To cast away. (c) To wreck. "Cast away and sunk." -- Shak.
To cast by, To reject; to dismiss or discard; to throw away.
To cast down, To throw down; to destroy; to deject or depress, as the mind. "Why art thou cast down. O my soul?" -- Ps. xiii. 5.
To cast forth, To throw out, or eject, as from an inclosed place; to emit; to send out.
To cast in one's lot with, To share the fortunes of.
To cast in one's teeth, To upbraid or abuse one for; to twin.
To cast lots. See under Lot.
To cast off. (a) To discard or reject; to drive away; to put off; to free one's self from.
To cast off. (b) (Hunting) To leave behind, as dogs; also, to set loose, or free, as dogs. -- Crabb.
To cast off (c) (Naut.) To untie, throw off, or let go, as a rope.
To cast off copy, (Print.), To estimate how much printed matter a given amount of copy will make, or how large the page must be in order that the copy may make a given number of pages.
To cast one's self on or To cast one's self upon to yield or submit one's self unreservedly to, As to the mercy of another.
To cast out, To throw out; to eject, as from a house; to cast forth; to expel; to utter.
To cast the lead (Naut.), To sound by dropping the lead to the bottom.
To cast the water (Med.), To examine the urine for signs of disease. [Obs.].
To cast up. (a) To throw up; to raise.
To cast up. (b) To compute; to reckon, as the cost.
To cast up. (c) To vomit.
To cast up. (d) To twit with; to throw in one's teeth.
Cast (v. i.) To throw, as a line in angling, esp, with a fly hook.
Cast (v. i.) (Naut.) To turn the head of a vessel around from the wind in getting under weigh.
Weigh anchor, cast to starboard. -- Totten.
Cast (v. i.) To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan; as, to cast about for reasons.
She . . . cast in her mind what manner of salution this should be. -- Luke. i. 29.
Cast (v. i.) To calculate; to compute. [R.]
Who would cast and balance at a desk. -- Tennyson.
Cast (v. i.) To receive form or shape in a mold.
It will not run thin, so as to cast and mold. -- Woodward.
Cast (v. i.) To warp; to become twisted out of shape.
Stuff is said to cast or warp when . . . it alters its flatness or straightness. -- Moxon.
Cast (v. i.) To vomit.
These verses . . . make me ready to cast. -- B. Jonson.
Cast () 3d pres. of Cast, for Casteth.
[Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Cast (n.) The act of casting or throwing; a throw.
Cast (n.) The thing thrown.
A cast of dreadful dust. -- Dryden.
Cast (n.) The distance to which a thing is or can be thrown. "About a stone's cast." -- Luke xxii. 41.
Cast (n.) A throw of dice; hence, a chance or venture.
An even cast whether the army should march this way or that way. -- Sowth.
I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die. -- Shak.
Cast (n.) That which is throw out or off, shed, or ejected; as, the skin of an insect, the refuse from a hawk's stomach, the excrement of a earthworm.
Cast (n.) The act of casting in a mold.
And why such daily cast of brazen cannon. -- Shak.
Cast (n.) An impression or mold, taken from a thing or person; amold; a pattern.
Cast (n.) That which is formed in a mild; esp. a reproduction or copy, as of a work of art, in bronze or plaster, etc.; a casting.
Cast (n.) Form; appearence; mien; air; style; as, a peculiar cast of countenance. "A neat cast of verse." -- Pope.
An heroic poem, but in another cast and figure. -- Prior.
And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. -- Shak.
Cast (n.) A tendency to any color; a tinge; a shade.
Gray with a cast of green. -- Woodward.
Cast (n.) A chance, opportunity, privilege, or advantage; specifically, an opportunity of riding; a lift. [Scotch]
We bargained with the driver to give us a cast to the next stage. -- Smollett.
If we had the cast o' a cart to bring it. -- Sir W. Scott.
Cast (n.) The assignment of parts in a play to the actors.
Cast (n.) (Falconary) A flight or a couple or set of hawks let go at one time from the hand. -- Grabb.
As when a cast of falcons make their flight. -- Spenser.
Cast (n.) A stoke, touch, or trick. [Obs.]
This was a cast of Wood's politics; for his information was wholly false. -- Swift.
Cast (n.) A motion or turn, as of the eye; direction; look; glance; squint.
The cast of the eye is a gesture of aversion. -- Bacon.
And let you see with one cast of an eye. -- Addison.
This freakish, elvish cast came into the child's eye. -- Hawthorne.
Cast (n.) A tube or funnel for conveying metal into a mold.
Cast (n.) Four; that is, as many as are thrown into a vessel at once in counting herrings, etc; a warp.
Cast (n.) Contrivance; plot, design. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
A cast of the eye, a slight squint or strabismus.
Renal cast (Med.), Microscopic bodies found in the urine of persons affected with disease of the kidneys; -- so called because they are formed of matter deposited in, and preserving the outline of, the renal tubes.
The last cast, The last throw of the dice or last effort, on which every thing is ventured; the last chance.
Cast (n.) The actors in a play [syn: cast, cast of characters, dramatis personae].
Cast (n.) Container into which liquid is poured to create a given shape when it hardens [syn: mold, mould, cast].
Cast (n.) The distinctive form in which a thing is made; "pottery of this cast was found throughout the region" [syn: cast, mold, mould, stamp].
Cast (n.) The visual appearance of something or someone; "the delicate cast of his features" [syn: form, shape, cast].
Cast (n.) Bandage consisting of a firm covering (often made of plaster of Paris) that immobilizes broken bones while they heal [syn: cast, plaster cast, plaster bandage].
Cast (n.) Object formed by a mold [syn: cast, casting].
Cast (n.) The act of throwing dice [syn: cast, roll].
Cast (n.) The act of throwing a fishing line out over the water by means of a rod and reel [syn: casting, cast].
Cast (n.) A violent throw [syn: hurl, cast].
Cast (v.) Put or send forth; "She threw the flashlight beam into the corner"; "The setting sun threw long shadows"; "cast a spell"; "cast a warm light" [syn: project, cast, contrive, throw].
Cast (v.) Deposit; "cast a vote"; "cast a ballot."
Cast (v.) Select to play,sing, or dance a part in a play, movie, musical, opera, or ballet; "He cast a young woman in the role of Desdemona."
Cast (v.) Throw forcefully [syn: hurl, hurtle, cast].
Cast (v.) Assign the roles of (a movie or a play) to actors; "Who cast this beautiful movie?"
Cast (v.) Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town" [syn: roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond].
Cast (v.) Form by pouring (e.g., wax or hot metal) into a cast or mold; "cast a bronze sculpture" [syn: cast, mold, mould].
Cast (v.) Get rid of; "he shed his image as a pushy boss"; "shed your clothes" [syn: shed, cast, cast off, shake off, throw, throw off, throw away, drop].
Cast (v.) Choose at random; "draw a card"; "cast lots" [syn: draw, cast].
Cast (v.) Formulate in a particular style or language; "I wouldn't put it that way"; "She cast her request in very polite language" [syn: frame, redact, cast, put, couch].
Cast (v.)
Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking
too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The
patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night" [syn:
vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke,
barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up] [ant:
keep down].
CAST, () Carlisle Adams and Stafford Tavares
(cryptography).
CAST, () Computer Aided Software Testing.
CAST, () Computer Aided Software Testing explicit type conversion.
Cast, () (Or "cast" in C and elsewhere). A programming construct ({syntax) to specify that an expression's value should be converted to a different type.
For example, in C, to convert an integer (usually 32 bits) to a char (usually 8 bits) we might write:
int i = 42; char *p = &buf; *p = (char) i; The expression "(char)" (called a "cast") converts i's value to char type. Casts (including this one) are often not strictly necessary, due to automatic coercions performed by the compiler, but can be used to make the conversion obvious and to avoid warning messages. (1999-09-19)
Castalian (a.) Of or pertaining to Castalia, a mythical fountain of inspiration on Mt. Parnassus sacred to the Muses. -- Milton.
Castanea (n.) (Bot.) A genus of nut-bearing trees or shrubs including the chestnut and chinquapin.
Castanea (n.) Chestnuts; chinkapins [syn: Castanea, genus Castanea].
Castanea, PA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Pennsylvania
Population (2000): 1189
Housing Units (2000): 512
Land area (2000): 1.339907 sq. miles (3.470343 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.032074 sq. miles (0.083070 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.371981 sq. miles (3.553413 sq. km)
FIPS code: 11648
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 41.122882 N, 77.432578 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Castanea, PA
Castanea
Castanet (n.) See Castanets.
Castanets (n. pl.) Two small, concave shells of ivory or hard wood, shaped like spoons, fastened to the thumb, and beaten together with the middle finger; -- used by the Spaniards and Moors as an accompaniment to their dance and guitars.
Note: The singular, castanet, is used of one of the pair, or, sometimes, of the pair forming the instrument.
The dancer, holding a castanet in each hand, rattles them to the motion of his feet. -- Moore (Encyc. of Music).
Castanets (n.) A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance [syn: bones, castanets, clappers, finger cymbals].
Castaway (n.) One who, or that which, is cast away or shipwrecked.
Castaway (n.) One who is ruined; one who has made moral shipwreck; a reprobate.
Lest . . . when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. -- 1 Cor. ix. 27.
Castaway (a.) Of no value; rejected; useless.
Castaway (n.) A person who is rejected (from society or home) [syn: outcast, castaway, pariah, Ishmael].
Castaway (n.) A shipwrecked person [syn: castaway, shipwreck survivor].
Castaway, () Gr. adokimos, (1 Cor. 9:27), one regarded as unworthy (R.V., "rejected"); elsewhere rendered "reprobate" (2 Tim. 3:8, etc.); "rejected" (Heb. 6:8, etc.).
Caste (n.) One of the hereditary classes into which the Hindoos are divided according to the laws of Brahmanism.
Note: The members of the same caste are theoretically of equal rank, and same profession or occupation, and may not eat or intermarry with those not of their own caste. The original are four, viz., the Brahmans, or sacerdotal order; the Kshatriyas, or soldiers and rulers; the Vaisyas, or husbandmen and merchants; and the Sudras, or laborers and mechanics. Men of no caste are Pariahs, outcasts. Numerous mixed classes, or castes, have sprung up in the progress of time.
Caste (n.) A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly hold intercourse among themselves.
The tinkers then formed an hereditary caste. -- Macaulay.
To lose caste, To be degraded from the caste to which one has belonged; to lose social position or consideration.
Caste (n.) Social status or position conferred by a system based on class; "lose caste by doing work beneath one's station."
Caste (n.) (Hinduism) A hereditary social class among Hindus; stratified according to ritual purity.
Caste (n.) A social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank or profession or wealth.
Caste (n.) In some social insects (such as ants) a physically distinct individual or group of individuals specialized to perform certain functions in the colony.
Castellan (n.) A governor or warden of a castle.
Castellanies (n. pl. ) of Castellany.
Castellany (n.) The lordship of a castle; the extent of land and jurisdiction appertaining to a castle.
Castellated (a.) Inclosed within a building; as, a fountain or cistern castellated. [Obs.] -- Johnson.
Castellated (a.) Furnished with turrets and battlements, like a castle; built in the style of a castle.
Castellated (a.) Having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement; "a crenelated molding" [syn: embattled, battlemented, castled, castellated].
Castellated (a.) (Of a building) Having turrets and battlements in the style of a castle. [syn: castled, crenelated, crenellated, battlemented].
Castellation (n.) The act of making into a castle.
Caster (n.) One who casts; as, caster of stones, etc. ; a caster of cannon; a caster of accounts.
Caster (n.) A vial, cruet, or other small vessel, used to contain condiments at the table; as, a set of casters.
Caster (n.) A stand to hold a set of cruets.
Caster (n.) A small wheel on a swivel, on which furniture is supported and moved.
Caster (n.) A worker who casts molten metal into finished products.
Caster (n.) A shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling powdered sugar [syn: caster, castor].
Caster (n.) A pivoting roller attached to the bottom of furniture or trucks or portable machines to make them movable [syn: caster, castor].
Castigated (imp. & p. p.) of Castigate.
Castigating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Castigate.
Castigate (v. t.) 申斥；懲罰；譴責；矯正；修訂 To punish by stripes; to chastise by blows; to chasten; also, to chastise verbally; to reprove; to criticise severely.
Castigate (v. t.) To emend; to correct. [Obs.]
Castigate (v.) Censure severely; "She chastised him for his insensitive remarks" [syn: chastise, castigate, objurgate, chasten, correct].
Castigate (v.) Inflict severe punishment on.
Castigate (v.) [ T ] (Formal) 嚴厲指責，申斥 To criticize someone or something severely.
// Health inspectors castigated the kitchen staff for poor standards of cleanliness.
Castigation (n.) 申斥，嚴厲批評；懲罰 [U] [C] Corrective punishment; chastisement; reproof; pungent criticism.
The keenest castigation of her slanderers. -- W. Irving.
Castigation (n.) Emendation; correction. [Obs.]
Castigation (n.) A severe scolding [syn: castigation, earful, bawling out, chewing out, upbraiding, going-over, dressing down].
Castigation (n.) Verbal punishment [syn: castigation, chastisement].
Castigation (n.) [ U ] (Formal) 申斥，嚴厲批評；懲罰 Severe criticism of somebody/ something.
// They fear the castigation of their community.
Castigator (n.) [L.] One who castigates or corrects.
Compare: Cucking stool
Cucking stool, () A kind of chair formerly used for punishing scolds, and also dishonest tradesmen, by fastening them in it, usually in front of their doors, to be pelted and hooted at by the mob, but sometimes to be taken to the water and ducked; -- called also a castigatory, a tumbrel, and a trebuchet; and often, but not so correctly, a ducking stool. -- Sir. W. Scott.
Castigatory (a.) [L. castigatorius.]
Punitive in order to amendment; corrective.
Castigatory (n.) An instrument formerly used to punish and correct arrant scolds; -- called also a ducking stool, or trebucket. -- Blacktone.
Castigatory, () Punishments. An engine used to punish women who have been convicted of being common scolds it is sometimes called the trebucket, tumbrel, ducking stool, or cucking stool. This barbarous punishment has perhaps never been inflicted in the United States. 12 S. & It. 225. Vide Common Scold.
Compare: Soap
Soap (n.) A substance which dissolves in water, thus forming a lather, and is used as a cleansing agent. Soap is produced by combining fats or oils with alkalies or alkaline earths, usually by boiling, and consists of salts of sodium, potassium, etc., with the fatty acids (oleic, stearic, palmitic, etc.). See the Note below, and cf. Saponification. By extension, any compound of similar composition or properties, whether used as a cleaning agent or not.
Note: In general, soaps are of two classes, hard and soft.
Calcium, magnesium, lead, etc., form soaps, but they are insoluble and useless.
The
purifying action of soap depends upon the fact that it is decomposed by a
large quantity of water into free alkali and an insoluble acid salt.
The first of these takes away the fatty dirt on washing, and the latter
forms the soap lather which envelops the greasy matter and
thus tends
to remove it. -- Roscoe & Schorlemmer.
Castile soap, A fine-grained hard soap, white or mottled, made of
olive oil and soda; -- called also Marseilles soap or Venetian soap.
Hard soap, Any one of a great variety of soaps, of different ingredients and color, which are hard and compact. All solid soaps are of this class.
Lead soap, An insoluble, white, pliable soap made by saponifying an oil (olive oil) with lead oxide; -- used externally in medicine. Called also lead plaster, diachylon, etc.
Marine soap. See under Marine.
Pills of soap (Med.), Pills containing soap and opium.
Potash soap, Any soap made with potash, esp. the soft soaps, and a hard soap made from potash and castor oil.
Pumice soap, Any hard soap charged with a gritty powder, as silica, alumina, powdered pumice, etc., which assists mechanically in the removal of dirt.
Resin soap, A yellow soap containing resin, -- used in bleaching.
Silicated soap, A cheap soap containing water glass (sodium silicate).
Soap bark. (Bot.) See Quillaia bark.
Soap bubble, A hollow iridescent globe, formed by blowing a film of soap suds from a pipe; figuratively, something attractive, but extremely unsubstantial.
This soap bubble of the metaphysicians. -- J. C. Shairp.
Soap cerate, A cerate formed of soap, olive oil, white wax, and the subacetate of lead, sometimes used as an application to allay inflammation.
Soap fat, The refuse fat of kitchens, slaughter houses, etc., used in making soap.
Soap liniment (Med.), A liniment containing soap, camphor, and alcohol.
Soap nut, The hard kernel or seed of the fruit of the soapberry tree, -- used for making beads, buttons, etc.
Soap plant (Bot.), One of several plants used in the place of soap, as the Chlorogalum pomeridianum, a California plant, the bulb of which, when stripped of its husk and rubbed on wet clothes, makes a thick lather, and smells not unlike new brown soap. It is called also soap apple, soap bulb, and soap weed.
Soap tree. (Bot.) Same as Soapberry tree.
Soda soap, A soap containing a sodium salt. The soda soaps are all hard soaps.
Soft soap, A soap of a gray or brownish yellow color, and of a slimy, jellylike consistence, made from potash or the lye from wood ashes. It is strongly alkaline and often contains glycerin, and is used in scouring wood, in cleansing linen, in dyehouses, etc. Figuratively, flattery; wheedling; blarney. [Colloq.]
Toilet soap, Hard soap for the toilet, usually colored and perfumed.
Castile soap () A kind of fine, hard, white or mottled soap, made with olive oil and soda; also, a soap made in imitation of the above-described soap.
Castile soap (n.) A good hard soap made from olive oil and sodium hydroxide.
Castilian (n.) An inhabitant or native of Castile, in Spain.
Castilian (n.) The Spanish language as spoken in Castile.
Castillan (a.) Of or pertaining to Castile, in Spain.
Casting (n.) The act of one who casts or throws, as in fishing.
Casting (n.) The act or process of making casts or impressions, or of shaping metal or plaster in a mold; the act or the process of pouring molten metal into a mold.
Casting (n.) That which is cast in a mold; esp. the mass of metal so cast; as, a casting in iron; bronze casting.
Casting (n.) The warping of a board. -- Brande & C.
Casting (n.) The act of casting off, or that which is cast off, as skin, feathers, excrement, etc.
Casting of draperies, The proper distribution of the folds of garments, in painting and sculpture.
Casting line (Fishing), The leader; also, sometimes applied to the long reel line.
Casting net, A net which is cast and drawn, in distinction from a net that is set and left.
Casting voice, Casting vote, The decisive vote of a presiding officer, when the votes of the assembly or house are equally divided. "When there was an equal vote, the governor had the casting voice." -- B. Trumbull.
Casting weight, A weight that turns a balance when exactly poised.
Casting (n.) Object formed by a mold [syn: cast, casting].
Casting (n.) The act of creating something by casting it in a mold [syn: molding, casting].
Casting (n.) The act of throwing a fishing line out over the water by means of a rod and reel [syn: casting, cast].
Casting (n.) The choice of actors to play particular roles in a play or movie.
Cast iron () Highly carbonized iron, the direct product of the blast furnace; -- used for making castings, and for conversion into wrought iron and steel. It can not be welded or forged, is brittle, and sometimes very hard. Besides carbon, it contains sulphur, phosphorus, silica, etc.
Cast iron (n.) An alloy of iron containing so much carbon that it is brittle and so cannot be wrought but must be shaped by casting.
Cast-iron (a.) Made of cast iron. Hence, Fig.: like cast iron; hardy; unyielding.
Cast-iron (a.) Extremely robust; "an iron constitution" [syn: cast-iron, iron].
Castle (n.) A fortified residence, especially that of a prince or nobleman; a fortress.
The house of every one is to him castle and fortress, as well for his defense againts injury and violence, as for his repose. -- Coke.
Our castle's strength Will laugh a siege to scorn. -- Shak.
Note: Originally the medi[ae]val castle was a single strong tower or keep, with a palisaded inclosure around it and inferior buidings, such as stables and the like, and surrounded by a moat; then such a keep or donjon, with courtyards or baileys and accessory buildings of greater elaboration a great hall and a chapel, all surrounded by defensive walls and a moat, with a drawbridge, etc. Afterwards the name was retained by large dwellings that had formerly been fortresses, or by those which replaced ancient fortresses. A Donjon or Keep, an irregular building containing the dwelling of the lord and his family; B C Large round towers ferming part of the donjon and of the exterior; D Square tower, separating the two inner courts and forming part of the donjon; E Chapel, whose apse forms a half-round tower, F, on the exterior walls; G H Round towers on the exterior walls; K Postern gate, reached from outside by a removable fight of steps or inclined plane for hoisting in stores, and leading to a court, L (see small digagram) whose pavement is on a level with the sill of the postern, but below the level of the larger court, with which it communicates by a separately fortified gateway; M Turret, containing spiral stairway to all the stories of the great tower, B, and serving also as a station for signal fire, banner, etc.; N Turret with stairway for tower, C; O Echauguettes; P P P Battlemants consisting of merlons and crenels alternately, the merlons being pierced by loopholes; Q Q Machicolations (those at Q defend the postern K); R Outwork defending the approach, which is a road ascending the hill and passing under all four faces of the castle; S S Wall of the outer bailey. The road of approach enters the bailey at T and passes thence into the castle by the main entrance gateway (which is in the wall between, and defended by the towers, C H) and over two drawbridges and through fortified passages to the inner court.
Castle (n.) Any strong, imposing, and stately mansion.
Castle (n.) A small tower, as on a ship, or an elephant's back.
Castle (n.) A piece, made to represent a castle, used in the game of chess; a rook.
Castle in the air, A visionary project; a baseless scheme; an air castle; -- sometimes called a castle in Spain (F. Ch[^a]teau en Espagne).
Syn: Fortress; fortification; citadel; stronghold. See Fortress.
Castled (imp. & p. p.) of Castle.
Castling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Castle.
Castle (v. i.) (Chess) To move the castle to the square next to king, and then the king around the castle to the square next beyond it, for the purpose of covering the king.
Castle (n.) A large and stately mansion [syn: palace, castle].
Castle (n.) A large building formerly occupied by a ruler and fortified against attack.
Castle (n.) (Chess) The piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard [syn: castle, rook].
Castle (n.) Interchanging the positions of the king and a rook [syn: castle, castling].
Castle (v.) Move the king two squares toward a rook and in the same move the rook to the square next past the king.
Castle, () A military fortress (1 Chr. 11:7), also probably a kind of tower used by the priests for making known anything discovered at a distance (1 Chr. 6:54). Castles are also mentioned (Gen. 25:16) as a kind of watch-tower, from which shepherds kept watch over their flocks by night. The "castle" into which the chief captain commanded Paul to be brought was the quarters of the Roman soldiers in the fortress of Antonia (so called by Herod after his patron Mark Antony), which was close to the north-west corner of the temple (Acts 21:34), which it commanded.
Castle, OK -- U.S. town in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 122
Housing Units (2000): 58
Land area (2000): 0.176491 sq. miles (0.457110 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.176491 sq. miles (0.457110 sq. km)
FIPS code: 12750
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 35.475174 N, 96.384072 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 74833
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Castlebuilder (n.) Fig.: one who builds castles in the air or forms visionary schemes. -- Cas"tle*build`ing, n.
Castled (a.) Having a castle or castles; supporting a castle; as, a castled height or crag.
Castled (a.) Fortified; turreted; as, castled walls.
Castled (a.) Having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement; "a crenelated molding" [syn: embattled, battlemented, castled, castellated].
Castle-guard (n.) The guard or defense of a castle.
Castle-guard (n.) (O. Eng. Law) A tax or imposition an a dwelling within a certain distance of a castle, for the purpose of maintaining watch and ward in it; castle-ward.
Castle-guard (n.) A feudal tenure, obliging the tenant to perform service within the realm, without limitation of time.
Castlery (n.) The government of a castle. -- Blount.
Castlet (n.) A small castle. -- Leland.