casting
/ˈkæstɪŋ/ noun B2- The act or process of selecting actors, singers, dancers, models, etc.
- A manufacturing process using a mold.
- An object made in a mold.
- The regurgitation of fur, feathers, and other undigestible material by hawks, to clean and empty their crops.
- The excreta of an earthworm or similar creature.
- The act of converting between data types.
- Of hounds, the act of spreading out and searching for a scent.
Plural castings
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Before daybreak he would awake, leave the inn after rigorously paying his bill, and reaching the forest, he would, under pretence of making studies in painting, test the hospitality of some peasants, procure himself the dress of a woodcutter and a hatchet, casting off the lion’s skin to assume that of the woodman; then, with his hands covered with dirt, his hair darkened by means of a leaden comb, his complexion embrowned with a preparation for which one of his old comrades had given him the recipe, he intended, by following the wooded districts, to reach the nearest frontier, walking by night and sleeping in the day in the forests and quarries, and only entering inhabited regions to buy a loaf from time to time.
I promise you that to make up for her want of loyalty, I will be most inflexibly severe;” then casting an expressive glance at his betrothed, which seemed to say, “Fear not, for your dear sake my justice shall be tempered with mercy,” and receiving a sweet and approving smile in return, Villefort departed with paradise in his heart.
At last, having long waited in vain, he laid aside his flute, and casting his net into the sea, made an excellent haul of fish.
A MONKEY perched upon a lofty tree saw some Fishermen casting their nets into a river, and narrowly watched their proceedings.
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