Third-person singular simple present indicative form of act
cast
cast
adj
Of a horse: Having lain down in a position from which it cannot rise on its own, because its legs are too close to a wall, fence or other obstacle.
noun
(fishing) An instance of throwing out a fishing line.
(hawking) The number of hawks (or occasionally other birds) cast off at one time; a pair.
A group of crabs.
A small mass of earth "thrown off" or excreted by a worm.
A squint.
A supportive and immobilising device used to help mend broken bones.
An act of throwing.
An object made in a mould.
Animal and insect remains which have been regurgitated by a bird.
Something which has been thrown, dispersed etc.
The casting procedure.
The collective group of actors performing a play or production together. Contrasted with crew.
The form of one's thoughts, mind etc.
The mould used to make cast objects.
Visual appearance.
verb
(Wicca) To open a circle in order to begin a spell or meeting of witches.
(archaic) To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict.
(archaic) To give birth to (a child) prematurely; to miscarry.
(archaic) To impose; to bestow; to rest.
(archaic) To throw out or emit; to exhale.
(archaic) To throw up, as a mound, or rampart.
(astrology) To calculate the astrological value of (a horoscope, birth etc.).
(computing) To change a variable type from, for example, integer to real, or integer to text.
(dated) To add up (a column of figures, accounts etc.); cross-cast refers to adding up a row of figures.
(hunting) Of dogs, hunters: to spread out and search for a scent.
(media) To broadcast (video) over the Internet or a local network, especially to one's television.
(medicine) To set (a bone etc.) in a cast.
(nautical) To bring the bows of a sailing ship on to the required tack just as the anchor is weighed by use of the headsail; to bring (a ship) round.
(nautical) To heave the lead and line in order to ascertain the depth of water.
(now somewhat literary) To throw.
(obsolete except in set phrases) To remove, take off (clothes).
(obsolete) To plan, intend.
(obsolete) To vomit.
(of an animal) To throw off (the skin) as a process of growth; to shed the hair or fur of the coat.
(printing, dated) To stereotype or electrotype.
(transitive) To assign (a role in a play or performance).
(transitive) To assign a role in a play or performance to (an actor).
To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan.
To deposit (a ballot or voting paper); to formally register (one's vote).
To direct (one's eyes, gaze etc.).
To perform, bring forth (a magical spell or enchantment).
To shape (molten metal etc.) by pouring into a mould; to make (an object) in such a way.
To throw (light etc.) on or upon something, or in a given direction.
To throw down or aside.
To throw forward (a fishing line, net etc.) into the sea.
To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide.
To twist or warp (of fabric, timber etc.).
cats
cats
noun
plural of cat
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cat
cest
cest
noun
(obsolete) A woman's girdle; a cestus.
cist
cist
noun
(archaeology) A crypt cut into rock, chalk, or a tree trunk, especially a coffin formed by placing stone slabs on edge and topping them with a horizontal slab or slabs.
(historical, Ancient Greece) A small receptacle for sacred utensils carried in festivals in Ancient Greece.
cost
cost
noun
(heraldry) A cottise.
(obsolete) A rib; a side.
(obsolete) Manner; way; means; available course; contrivance.
A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur.
Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.
Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic.
verb
(transitive, ditransitive) To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of.
(transitive, ditransitive) To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.
To calculate or estimate a price.
To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
cots
cots
noun
plural of cot
crts
cstc
ctms
ctss
cust
cust
noun
Abbreviation of custody.
Abbreviation of customer.
cuts
cuts
noun
(Australia, New Zealand, dated or historical, with "the") Corporal punishment at school.
plural of cut
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cut
cyst
cyst
noun
(medicine) Of or pertaining to the urinary bladder or gall bladder (in compounds).
A pouch or sac without opening, usually membranous and containing morbid matter, which develops in one of the natural cavities or in the substance of an organ.
dcts
icst
ntsc
ocst
pcts
scat
scat
intj
(colloquial) An imperative demand to leave, often understood by speaker and listener as impertinent.
Scat! Go on! Get out of here!
noun
(UK dialectal) A land-tax paid in the Shetland Islands.
(UK, dialect) A brisk shower of rain, driven by the wind.
(biology) Animal excrement; droppings, dung.
(music, jazz) Scat singing.
(slang) Heroin.
(slang, obsolete) Whiskey.
(slang, pornography) Coprophilia.
A tax; tribute.
Any fish in the family Scatophagidae
verb
(colloquial) To leave quickly.
(music, jazz) To sing an improvised melodic solo using nonsense syllables, often onomatopoeic or imitative of musical instruments.
Here comes the principal; we'd better scat.
scot
scot
noun
(UK, historical) A local tax, paid originally to the lord or ruler and later to a sheriff.
sctd
scts
scut
scut
noun
(attributively) Distasteful work; drudgery
(by extension) The buttocks or rump; also, the female pudenda, the vulva.
(chiefly Ireland, colloquial) A contemptible person.
(medicine, slang) Some menial procedure left for a doctor or medical student to complete, sometimes for training purposes.
(obsolete) A hare; (hunting, also figuratively) a hare as the game in a hunt.
A short, erect tail, as of a hare, rabbit, or deer.
verb
(intransitive, originally Cumbria, East Anglia, Yorkshire) To scamper off.
scyt
sect
sect
noun
(obsolete) A cutting; a scion.
A group following a specific ideal or a leader.
An offshoot of a larger religion or denomination, usually and especially one with unorthodox or extreme political and/or religious beliefs.