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Casting ppl. a. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Casting ppl. a. [f. CAST v. + -ING2.]

1   1.  That casts, in various senses of the vb.

2   a.  trans. Of a bow, etc.: Throwing, shooting (see also quot. 1483). b. intr. Of bees: Swarming.

3 a. 1300.  Cursor M., 26020. Þis reuth es like a castand gin.

4 1483.  Cath. Angl., 55. Castynge as a bowe, flexibilis.

5 1485.  Caxton, Higden, V. xiv. (1527), 201. A wonder fell man and ferre casting.

6 1545.  Ascham, Toxoph., I. (Arb.), 29. Except they be … vnbent like a good casting bowe.

7 1565–78.  Cooper, Thesaurus, Acer arcus, a strong or quicke casting bowe.

8 1627.  Drayton, Agincourt, 28. Like casting Bees that they arise in swarmes.

9   2.  That turns the scale, deciding, decisive (see CAST v. 55), as in casting voice, vote, weight.

10 1622.  in Heath, Grocers’ Comp. (1869), 101. There can be in a Court but one casting voyce or ball.

11 1646.  Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., 231. Which … containe within themselves the casting act, and a power to command the conclusion.

12 1692.  Bentley, Boyle Lect., iv. 141. Even the Herbs of the Field give a casting vote against Atheism.

13 1711.  Steele, Spect., No. 17, ¶ 3. The President to have the casting Voice.

14 1735.  Pope, Prol. Sat., 177. That casting-weight pride adds to emptiness.

15 1828.  D’Israeli, Chas. I., I. vi. 160. The alliance of England was a casting weight in the government of the world.

16 1855.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., IV. 783. The question was decided against the prisoner by the casting vote of the Chancellor.

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