Dictionary: CAS – CASZ

• CAS
adj. 1990 Amer. sl. – casual, laid-back, conducive to a good time
 
• CASBALD
n. c1440 obs. – a term of reproach
 
• CASCABEL
n. 1760-72 – a rattlesnake; also, its rattle
 
• CASCADE
n. Bk1892 Aust. sl. – beer
vb. 1805 – to vomit
 
• CASCHIELAWIS
n. 1596 Sc. obs. – an instrument of torture, said to have been invented by the ‘Master of Orkney’ in 1596; its action appears to have been forcibly to draw together the body and limbs of the victim, and hold him in this cramped position
 
• CASE
n. 1. a1225 obs. – a thing that befalls or happens to anyone; an event, occurrence, hap, or chance
n. 2. 1340-70 obs. – chance, hazard, hap
n. 3. 1547-64 – the body
n. 4. a1569 obs. – the skin or hide of an animal
n. 5. 1677 – the outer part of a house or building; the shell or carcass
n. 6. US Civil War usage – a burial box
n. 7. 1852 Amer. dial. – an infatuation, a crush
n. 8. 1859 Amer. dial. – an unusual, queer, or peculiar person; a character; a disreputable person; a difficult fellow
n. 9. 1885 Amer. dial. – a dollar
n. 10. L19 Brit. sl. – the female genitals
n. 11. Bk1902 sl. – a brothel
n. 12. Bk1903 sl. – 5 shillings .
n. 13. 1927 Amer. dial. – a silver dollar
n. 14. Bk1942 Amer. sl. – a loved one; a sweetheart
vb. 1. 1601 obs. – to strip of the skin, to skin
vb. 2. 1914 sl., orig. US – to watch; to observe; to scrutinize; to reconnoitre with a view to committing a robbery or other crime
vb. 3. 1971 Amer. dial. – to reprove or reprimand sternly
vb. 4. 1971 Amer. dial. – to joke about another’s characteristics or foibles
 
• CASEABLE
adj. c1565 Sc. obs. – able or liable to happen, possible
 
• CASE-EXPANDER
n. 1967 Amer. dial. – a non-existent tool used to tease a beginner or inexperienced person
 
• CASE-HARDENED
adj. 1769 – made callous or tough by experience
 
• CASE OF DRAWERS
n. 1686 obs. – a chest of drawers
 
• CASE OF SPOONS
n. Bk1942 Amer. sl. – an infatuation
 
• CASEOUS
adj. 1807 humorous usage – abounding in cheese; fond of cheese
 
• CASER
n. 1. 1849 US sl. – a dollar
n. 2. 1860 Brit. sl. – a crown (a five-shilling coin)
n. 3. 1932 Amer. dial. – a silver dollar
 
• CASES
n. 1. 1593 obs. – clothes, garments
n. 2. Bk1914 criminals’ sl. – observation; scrutiny; also, an ultimate, a finality, the last of a series of things or actions
 
• CASH
n. 1. 1598 obs. – a chest or box for money; a cash-box, a till
n. 2. 1617 obs. rare – a dismissal or disbanding of troops
n. 3. 1876 US sl. – a cashboy or cashgirl
vb. 1. 1564 obs. – to disband, to dismiss
vb. 2. 1905 US sl. – to give up; to quit; to ‘cash in’
vb. 3. 1908 US sl. – to die
 
• CASH COW
n. 1974 US – an investment or other source of money that pays regularly and well
 
• CASH DOWN
vb. 1882 US sl. – to pay; to hand over money
 
• CASHED
adj. 20C teen & high school sl. – used up; finished
 
• CASHIER
n. 1643 obs. – a money-dealer
vb. 1. 1592 – to send away, to dismiss
vb. 2. 1596 obs. – to make void, to annul, to do away with
vb. 3. 1598 military usage, obs. – to discharge, to disband troops
vb. 4. 1603 – to discard, to get rid off, to banish a thing
vb. 5. 1668 rare – to deprive of
 
• CASHIERMENT
n. 1656 – dismissal
 
• CASH-IN
n. 1985 US – an act or instance of cashing in financially
vb. 1. 1884 sl., orig. US – (as ‘cash in’) to die
vb. 2. 1896 US sl., orig. gambling usage – (as ‘cash in’) to quit, to give up  
vb. 3. 1928 US sl. – (as ‘cash in’) to reap a profit, reward, or advantage of any kind
 
• THE CASH-IN
n. 1926 US sl. – the end; death
 
• CASH IN ON
vb. 1930 US sl. – to profit from or turn to one’s advantage
 
• CASH IN ONE’S CHECKS
vb. 1884 sl., orig. US – to die
 
• CASH IN ONE’S CHIPS
vb. 1. 1884 sl., orig. US – to die
vb. 2. 1895 Amer. sl. – to change one’s ways
vb. 3. 1967 Amer. sl. – to commit suicide
vb. 4. 1984 Amer. sl. – to kill someone
 
• CASHMARIE
n. a1600 Sc. obs. – one who brings fish from the sea-coast to market in the inland country
 
• CASH ONE’S CHIPS
vb. World War II Amer. sl. – to die
 
• CASH ONE’S PISTOL
vb. 1880 US West. sl. – to rob a bank at gunpoint
 
• CASH UP
vb. 1943 Amer. dial. – to vomit
 
• CASINO
n. 1. 1789 – a public room used for social meetings; a club-house; a public music or dancing saloon 
n. 2. 1831 – a pleasure-house, a summer-house in Italy 
 
• CASK
n. 1. 1580 obs. – a head-piece or helmet 
n. 2. 1859 sl. – a fashionable name for a brougham or other private carriage 
n. 3. 1930s US criminals’ sl. – a taxi
 
• CASKET
n. 1832 obs. – a money-box or ‘chest’ 
 
• CASKET NAIL
n. 1966 Amer. sl. – a cigarette 
 
• CASKET TACK
n. 1966 Amer. sl. – a cigarette 
 
• CASMACK
adv. Bk1942 Amer. sl. – suddenly 
 
• CASMALA
adj. Bk1913-17 Amer. dial. – fine, excellent, first-rate, splendid 
 
• CASOUSE!
int. Bk1891 Amer. sl. – intended to convey an imitation of the sound of a falling body
 
• CASPAR
n. 1. 1930s sl. – a cowardly, weak person
n. 2. Bk1942 Amer. sl. – a gullible person; a dupe
 
• CASPAR MILQUETOAST
n. 1947 Amer. dial. – a meek, easily intimidated person; a very timid or cowardly person
 
• CASPER
n. 1950s US African-American sl. – a particularly light-skinned Black person
 
• CASPER MILKTOAST;  CASPER MILQUETOAST
n. 1930s sl. – a cowardly, weak person 
 
• CASPER THE GHOST
n. 1980s drug culture sl. – crack cocaine
 
• CASPLASH!
int. M19 sl. – indicating a fall into liquid 
 
• CASS
adj. 1549 obs. – dismissed, cashiered; void, null 
n. 16C – cheese 
vb. 1. 1460 obs. exc. Sc. – to make void, to annul, to quash 
vb. 2. 1550 obs. exc. Sc. – to discharge, to dismiss; to disband, to cashier 
 
• CASSA
n. 1940s Aust. sl. – a ladies’ man 
 
• CASSALL
n. 1541 obs. rare – ? a wisdom-tooth 
 
• CASSAM
n. 16C – cheese 
 
• CASSAN
n. 1567 thieves’ cant obs. – cheese
 
• CASSANT
adj. 1725 obs. rare – brittle; friable 
 
• CASSATE
vb. 1. 1512 obs. – to make void, to annul, to quash 
vb. 2. 1744 obs. – to discharge, to dismiss; to disband, to cashier 
 
• CASSATION
n. 1. c1425 – the act of making null or void; cancellation, abrogation 
n. 2. 1602 obs. – dismissal of a soldier; cashiering 
 
• CASSAVA
n. 1980s African-American usage – a woman
 
• CASS-CASS
adj. 20C W. Indies – untidy, disreputable, inferior, low-class
 
• CASSENYIE BEAR
n. 1927 Amer. dial. – the black bear
 
• CASSIN
n. M16 UK criminals’ sl. – cheese  
 
• CASSOLE
n. 1590 obs. – a box or case
 
• CASSOM
n. 16C – cheese
 
• CASSON
n. 1. 16C – cheese
n. 2. 1613 obs. – a chest
 
• CAST
adj. 1. c1400 obs. – calculated, planned
adj. 2. c1430 obs. – chaste
adj. 3. 1577 obs. – condemned; beaten in a lawsuit
adj. 4. 1597 – thrown off, disused, worn out, abandoned, forsaken
adj. 5. 1597 – in cookery: whipped, curded
adj. 6. 1607 obs. – dismissed from office
adj. 7. 1930s Irish & NZ sl. – drunk
n. 1. a1300 obs. – plan, design; shape, conformation, of a building, etc.
n. 2. a1300 obs. exc. Eng. dial. – a throw or stroke of fortune; hence, fortune, chance, opportunity; lot, fate
n. 3. c1320 obs. – skill, art
n. 4. c1325 obs. – device, purpose, design, aim
n. 5. c1340 obs. – a contrivance, device, artifice, trick
n. 6. c1420 obs. – the delivery of a blow, a stroke
n. 7. 1470-85 obs. – the quantity of bread or ale made at one time
n. 8. 1535 obs. – a set or suit of things
n. 9. 1597 obs. – a burden cast or laid upon people; an impost, a charge
n. 10. 1969 Amer. dial. – a cask
vb. 1. a1225 obs. – to toss the head; to shrug the shoulders
vb. 2. a1300 obs. – to utter words; to heave a sigh
vb. 3. a1300 obs. – to reckon, to calculate, to estimate
vb. 4. a1300 obs. – to put into shape, dispose, arrange, or order; to lay out in order, to plan, to devise
vb. 5. a1300 – to throw up from within; to vomit
vb. 6. c1325 obs. – to machinate, to contrive, to devise, to scheme
vb. 7. a1340 obs. exc. Eng. dial. – to revolve in one’s mind, to debate with oneself, to consider, to ponder, to deliberate
vb. 8. c1340 obs. – to aim, deliver a blow
vb. 9. a1380 obs. – to design, to purpose, to intend, to determine to do a thing
vb. 10. 1382 obs. – to interpret a dream
vb. 11. c1384 obs. – to conjecture as to the future; to anticipate; to forecast
vb. 12. 1536 obs. – to find or declare guilty; to convict
vb. 13. 1567 obs. – to condemn
vb. 14. 1580 arch. – to overthrow an antagonist
vb. 15. 1587 obs. exc. Eng. dial. – to give birth to; to bear young; to lay eggs, to deposit spawn
vb. 16. 1599 obs. – to have an inclination; to incline, to slope, to slant
vb. 17. 1610 obs. exc. Eng. dial. – to defeat in competition
vb. 18. 1704 obs. – to void excrement
 
• CAST A LAGGIN-GIRD
vb. 1742 Sc. – to bear an illegitimate child
 
• CASTALDICK
n. 1678 obs. – stewardship
 
• CASTALDY
n. 1623 obs. – stewardship
 
• CASTANE
n. 1398 obs. – a chestnut
 
• CASTANEAN
adj. 1728 – pert. to the chestnut
 
• CASTANEOUS
adj. 1688 – chestnut-coloured
 
• CAST A NET
vb. 20C Aust. rhyming sl. – to have a bet
 
• CASTANIE
n. 1398 obs. – a chestnut
 
• CAST AN OPTIC
vb. L19 sl. – to look at
 
• CAST A SCANSE ON ONE
vb. Bk1904 Sc. – to make one an object of reproach (scance = n. blame, reproach, scandal)
 
• CAST ASPARAGUS
vb. 1916 Amer. jocular usage – to cast aspersions, to make damaging or spiteful remarks
 
• CASTAWAY
n. 1526 – one who is cast away or rejected; a reprobate
 
• CASTAYNE
n. 1398 obs. – a chestnut
 
• CAST BEYOND THE MOON
vb. 1559 obs. – to conjecture wildly; to indulge in wild conjectures
 
• CAST-BY
n. 1818 – a person or thing cast aside and neglected
 
• CAST CLEAN
vb. 1522 obs. – to cleanse
 
• CAST COLOUR
vb. c1350 – to lose colour, to become pale, to fade, esp. by the action of light
 
• CAST DOWN
vb. 1382 – to deject in spirits, to disappoint, to dispirit
 
• CASTE
n. 1555 obs. – a race, stock, or breed of men
vb. c1200 obs. rare – to chasten, to chastise
 
• CAST EGGS
vb. a1825 – to beat them up
 
• CASTELET
n. c1320 – a small castle
 
• CASTELL
vb. L16 thieves’ sl. – to look, to see; to watch; to spy
 
• CASTELLAN
n. 1393 – the governor or constable of a castle
 
• CASTELLANY
n. 1696 – the office or jurisdiction of a castellan; the lordship of a castle, or the district belonging to a castle
 
• CASTELLAR
adj. 1789 – pert. to a castle; of the nature of a castle
 
• CASTELLATE
adj. 1830 rare – built like a castle; having battlements
n. 1809 obs. rare – the district belonging to a castle
vb. 1831 – to build in the manner of a castle; to build with battlements
 
• CASTELLATED
adj. 1. 1679 – built like a castle; having battlements
adj. 2. 1762-71 – formed like a castle; castle-like
 
• CASTELLATION
n. 1818 – the building of castles; the furnishing of a house with battlements; a fortified or castellated structure; a battlement
 
• CASTELLET
n. c1325 – a small castle
 
• CASTELLION
n. c1430 obs. – the governor or constable of a castle
 
• CASTELRY
n. 1679 obs. – the government or jurisdiction of a castle; the territory subject to it
 
• CASTER
n. 1. 16C criminals’ sl. – a cloak
n. 2. M19 sl. – anyone or anything that has been rejected or cast aside
n. 3. L19 US sl. – a testicle
 
• CASTERATE
vb. 1965 Amer. dial. – to castrate
 
• CASTERIZE
vb. 1973 Amer. dial. – to castrate
 
• CASTERMINE
vb. 1949 Amer. dial. – to castrate
 
• CAST FAR
vb. a1300 obs. – to make far-reaching plans
 
• CAST HEADS TOGETHER
vb. 1526 obs. – to consult or take counsel together
 
• CASTICAL
adj. 1656 obs. – making chaste, pure or continent
 
• CASTIEAU’S HOTEL
n. M19 Aust. sl. – a prison
 
• CASTIFICATION
n. 1653 obs. rare – a making chaste; purification; chastity
 
• CASTIGABLE
adj. 1716 obs. rare – able to be chastised; deserving of chastisement
 
• CASTIGATE
adj. 1640 obs. – subdued, chastened, moderated
 
• CASTIGATION
n. 1. c1397 obs. – chastisement, corrective punishment or discipline, correction, chastening
n. 2. 1615 obs. rare – purification
n. 3. 1677 obs. rare – correction, subduing, moderating
 
• CASTIGATIVE
adj. 1641 rare – chastising, corrective, punitive
 
• CASTIGATORY
adj. 1613 – chastising, corrective, punitive
n. c1640 obs. – an instrument of chastisement
 
• CASTILIAN
n. 1570-87 obs. – one living in or belonging to a castle; one of the garrison of a castle
 
• CASTIMONY
n. 1490 obs. rare – chastity, purity
 
• CASTING
adj. 1627 – of bees: swarming
n. 1834 Amer. dial. obs. – a coin
 
• CASTINGS
n. M19 US sl. – cash
 
• CAST IN ONE’S DISH
vb. M16 Brit. colloq. – to object to something in a person; to accuse of
 
• CAST-IRON
adj. 1830 – hard, insensible to fatigue; rigid, stern, unbending; inflexible, unyielding, wanting in pliancy or adaptiveness
 
• CAST-IRON AND DOUBLE-BOLTED
adj. L19 sl. – extremely strong
 
• CAST-IRON BATHTUB
n. World War II Amer. sl. – a battleship
 
• CAST-IRON DOG
n. 1853 Amer. dial. obs. – the Mexican hairless dog
 
• CAST-IRON HORRORS
n. 20C Anglo-Irish – delirium tremens
 
• CAST-IRON OVERSHOES
n. Bk1942 Amer. sl. – something excellent
 
• CAST-IRON SWEAT
n. 1912 Amer. dial. – a highly nervous state
 
• CASTLE
n. 1. 1000 – a village, a collection of dwellings → obs.
n. 2. 1642 – a tower
n. 3. 1642 – a large ship, esp. a ship of war
n. 4. 1886 – a large building
n. 5. 1930 – one’s house; one’s home → African-American sl.
n. 6. 1959 – in cricket: the wicket that a batsman is defending → UK
vb. ..16C – to see or look → sl.
 
• CASTLE-BUILDER
n. 1711 – one who builds castles in the air; a daydreamer, a visionary schemer
 
• CASTLE-BUILT
adj. 1841 – of the nature of daydreams
 
• CASTLE CATHOLICS
n. E19 – Irish Catholics who rejected nationalism, preferring to curry favour with and ape the lifestyle of the ruling British → sl. 
 
• CASTLE-CLOUD
n. 1686 obs. – a castle-like cloud, a cumulus
 
• CASTLE-COME-DOWN
n. 1563 – ruin, total destruction → obs. 
 
• CASTLED
adj. 2003 – in cricket: bowled out → UK
 
• CASTLE HACK
n. 1900 – an informer → Irish sl. 
 
• CASTLE-HUNTER
n. 1752 – one who builds castles in the air; a daydreamer, a visionary schemer → obs.
 
• CASTLE IN THE AIR
n. 1400 – a visionary project or scheme; a daydream, an idle fancy
 
• CASTLE-MONGER
n. 1655 – one who builds or owns castles → obs.
 
• CASTLE-RAG
n. 1903 – fourpence → sl. (Bk.)
 
• CASTLERY
n. 1679 – the government or jurisdiction of a castle; the territory subject to it → obs.
 
• CASTLESHIP
n. 1598 – the government or jurisdiction of a castle; the territory subject to it → obs.
 
• CASTLET
n. 1538 – a small castle → obs.
 
• CASTLEWARD
n. 1425 – the warden of a castle → obs.
 
• CASTLING
n. 1580 – an aborted foetus → obs.
 
• CASTOCK
n. 1398 – the stalk or stem of a cabbage → Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
 
• CAST-OFF
n. 1741 – a person or thing that is abandoned as worthless or useless
 
• CAST-OFF ONE’S JAW-TACKLE
vb. 1896 – to talk fluently → sl. (Bk.)
 
• CAST OF THE HAND
n. 1637 – a helping turn → Sc. obs.
 
• CAST ONE IN THE TEETH
vb. 1526 – to reproach or upbraid one → obs.
 
• CAST ONE’S CAP AT
vb. 1579 – to show indifference to; to give up for lost → obs.
 
• CAST ONE’S SKIN
vb. 1891 – to be naked; to strip naked → thieves’ sl. (Bk.)
 
• CAST ONE’S WITS
vb. 1400 – to exercise or apply one’s wits → obs.
 
• CASTOR
adj. 1944 – excellent, all right → Aust. sl.
n. 1. 1547 – the beaver
n. 2. 1640 – a hat, orig. either of beaver’s fur, or intended to be taken as such; at the end of the 17th century and beginning of the 18th century said to be of rabbit’s fur, and usually spelt ‘caster’ → colloq.
 
• CASTOR CAT
n. 1930 – a beaver → Amer. dial.
 
• CASTORIAL
adj. 1864 – pert. to a hat → jocular usage
 
• CASTOR OIL ARTIST
n. 1925 – a doctor; a surgeon → US sl.
 
• CAST OUT
vb. 1. 1388 – to eject from the mouth, to vomit
vb. 2. 1730 – to disagree, to quarrel, to fall out → Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
 
• CASTRAL
adj. 1844 – belonging to the camp (military)
 
• CASTRAMETATION
n. 1679 – the art or science of laying out a camp
 
• CASTRATE
n. 1639 – a castrated man, a eunuch → obs.
vb. 1. 1554 – to deprive of vigour, force, or vitality; to mortify → obs.
vb. 2. 1627 – to mutilate a book by removing a sheet or portion of it; esp. to remove obscene or objectionable passages from; to expurgate
vb. 3. 1658 – in gardening: to prune, to remove superfluous suckers from → obs.
vb. 4. 1728 – to reduce in quantity or number → obs.
 
• CASTRATION
n. 1. 1420 – the act of taking away a portion of the honey from the hive → obs.
n. 2. 1728 – decrease or reduction in quantity or amount; curtailment → obs.
n. 3. 1791 – the removal of objectionable parts from a book or literary work 
 
• CASTRATO
n. 1763 – a male singer castrated in boyhood so as to retain a soprano or alto voice 
 
• CASTRENSIAL
adj. 1658 – pert. to a camp → obs.
 
• CASTRENSIAN
adj. 1657 – pert. to a camp 
 
• CASTROMETER
n. 1857 – a surveyor of (ancient) camps
 
• CAST SALT ON ANYONE’S TAIL
vb. 1721 – to catch; to take advantage of; to cajole; to get the better of → Sc. 
 
• CAST THE LAST ANCHOR
vb. 1945 – to die; to be killed → World War II Amer. sl.
 
• CAST SALT ON THE TAIL OF
vb. 1895 – to catch; to capture: children having been told from hoary antiquity that they can catch birds by putting salt on their tails (Bk.)
 
• CAST SHEEP’S EYES
vb. 1854 – to look amorously or lovingly upon → Amer. dial. 
 
• CAST STONES AGAINST THE WIND
vb. 1657 – to labour in vain → obs. 
 
• CAST THE GORGE
vb. 1614 – to vomit violently, or make violent attempts to vomit 
 
• CAST UP
vb. 1. 1484 – to vomit → obs. exc. Eng. & Amer. dial. 
vb. 2. 1530 – to give up, to abandon → obs. 
vb. 3. 1660 – to dig up, to dig → obs. 
vb. 4. 1825 – of clouds: to gather for a storm → Sc. 
vb. 5. 1825 – of the weather, the day: to clear up → Sc. 
 
• CAST UP ONE’S ACCOUNTS
vb. 17C – to vomit → sl. 
 
• CAST UP ONE’S GORGE
vb. 1921 – to vomit → sl. (Bk.)
 
• CAST UP ONE’S RECKONING
vb. 17C – to vomit → sl. 
 
• CAST WATER
vb. 1580 – to diagnose disease by the inspection of urine → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
 
• CAST YOUR SKIN
vb. 1890 – to pull off your clothes → sl. (Bk.)
 
• CASUAL
adj. 1. 1398 – non-essential → obs.
adj. 2. 1529 – subject to chance or accident; frail, uncertain, precarious → obs.
n. 1566 – a casual event, a chance → obs.
 
• CASUALITY
n. 1540 – chance; a chance or casual occurrence, contingency; esp. an unfortunate occurrence, accident, casualty → obs.
 
• CASUALLY
adj. 1386 – accidentally → obs.
 
• CASUALTY
n. 1423 – chance, accident → obs.
 
• CASUAL-WISE
adv. 1601 – casually → obs.
 
• CASUEY
vb. 1921 – of a horse: to buck → Amer. dial.
 
• CASUM
n. M16 – cheese → UK criminals’ sl.
 
• CASUN
n. 16C – cheese
 
• CASURE
n. 1565 – cadence, rhythm → obs.
 
• CASWASH!
int. 1891 – intended to convey an imitation of the sound of a falling body → Amer. sl.