4. 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.

5. 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.

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