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<A NAME="castleinspain">
<B>castle in Spain,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a daydream; castle in the air. </DL>
<A NAME="castleintheair">
<B>castle in the air,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> something imagined but not likely to come true; daydream. <BR> <I>Ex. They built castles in the air, and thought to do great wonders (Sir Thomas North).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="castlewalk">
<B>Castle walk,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a ballroom dance of the early 1900's consisting of one step to each beat. </DL>
<A NAME="castock">
<B>castock, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish.) the stalk or stem of a cabbage. </DL>
<A NAME="castoff">
<B>castoff, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> thrown away; abandoned; discarded. <BR> <I>Ex. castoff clothes.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> a person or thing that has been cast off. <BR> <I>Ex. ... his everlasting castoffs (Charles Spurgeon). Thou shalt be From the city of the free Thyself a castoff (John Blackie).</I> </DL>
<B>castor</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an oily substance with a strong odor, secreted by beavers; castoreum. It is used in making perfume and in medicines. <DD><B> 2a. </B>a hat made of beaver fur. <DD><B> b. </B>any hat resembling this. <DD><B> 3. </B>a heavy woolen cloth especially used for overcoats. <DD><B> 4. </B>a soft-finished glove leather, usually gray in color. <DD><B> 5. </B><B>=beaver.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="castor">
<B>Castor, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Greek and Roman Legend.) one of the twin sons of Zeus and Leda. Castor was mortal; his brother, Pollux, was immortal. Castor and Pollux became the constellation Gemini after Castor's death. <DD><B> 2. </B>the fainter of the two bright stars in the constellation Gemini. </DL>
<A NAME="castorandpollux">
<B>Castor and Pollux,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the twin sons of Zeus; Dioscuri. <DD><B> 2a. </B>the constellation Gemini. <DD><B> b. </B>its two brightest stars. <DD><B> 3. </B>double balls of light due to a discharge of atmospheric electricity; St. Elmo's fire. </DL>
<A NAME="castorbean">
<B>castor bean,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) <DD><B> 1. </B>the seed of the castor-oil plant. <DD><B> 2. </B>the plant itself. </DL>
<A NAME="castoreum">
<B>castoreum, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the castor of a beaver. </DL>
<A NAME="castorite">
<B>castorite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Mineralogy.) a variety of petalite, occurring in distinct transparent crystals. </DL>
<A NAME="castoroil">
<B>castor oil,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a thick, yellowish or colorless oil obtained from the beans of a tall, tropical plant, used as a laxative and as a lubricant for machines. </DL>
<A NAME="castoroilplant">
<B>castor-oil plant,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a tall, tropical plant of the spurge family, probably native to Africa, but now widely distributed in all tropical regions. Its seeds yield castor oil. </DL>
<A NAME="castorsugar">
<B>castor sugar,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a fine, white, powdered sugar. </DL>
<A NAME="castrametation">
<B>castrametation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the art or science of planning military camp sites. </DL>
<A NAME="castrate">
<B>castrate, </B>verb, <B>-trated,</B> <B>-trating,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1a. </B>to remove the male glands of; geld; emasculate. An ox is a castrated bull. <DD><B> b. </B>to remove the female glands of; spay. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to mutilate or expurgate. <DD><I>noun </I> a castrated animal or person. <BR> <I>Ex. A castrate is more docile than the normal of the species (Scientific American).</I> noun <B>castrater.</B> noun <B>castration.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="castrato">
<B>castrato, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ti.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a male singer who formerly, especially in Italy, was made a eunuch while a boy so that he might retain a soprano or alto voice. </DL>
<B>casual, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>happening by chance; not planned or expected; accidental. <BR> <I>Ex. Our long friendship began with a casual meeting at a party.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>without plan or method; careless. <BR> <I>Ex. a casual answer. I didn't read the newspaper but gave it only a casual glance. She kissed him perfunctorily on the forehead and he gave her hand a casual caress (Graham Greene).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>uncertain; indefinite; indifferent; vague. <BR> <I>Ex. Not for a casual period but for a complete lifetime (George Grote).</I> <DD><B> 4a. </B>informal in manner; offhand. <BR> <I>Ex. casual manners. Some people took his casual behavior for rudeness. American sportswear designers know how to design for up-to-date, casual living (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>designed for informal wear. <BR> <I>Ex. We dressed in casual clothes for the picnic.</I> <DD><B> c. </B>not to be depended on or considered seriously; unmethodical; haphazard. <BR> <I>Ex. He does his work in much too casual a manner.</I> <DD><B> 5a. </B>occasional or irregular. <BR> <I>Ex. He employs casual labor on his farm and then only at harvest time.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>(British.) of or denoting persons receiving occasional work or public aid from a place in which they do not permanently reside. <BR> <I>Ex. the casual poor.</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>of or resulting from accidents. <BR> <I>Ex. a casual patient. I pointed out that the causes of illnesses are multiple and that a useful diagnosis should take casual factors into account (Sunday Times).</I> <DD><B> 7. </B>(Obsolete.) uncertain; precarious. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1a. </B>a casual laborer. <BR> <I>Ex. The Waterfront Commission has done much to eliminate waterfront casuals who in the past have absorbed much of the waterfront income (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>(British.) a person occasionally receiving public aid. <DD><B> 2. </B>a soldier awaiting orders, transportation, or the like, at a post or in a unit to which he is not attached or assigned. <DD><B> 3. </B>a casual dress, shoe, or other piece of informal clothing. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Biology.) a plant or animal found outside its native habitat. adv. <B>casually.</B> noun <B>casualness.</B> </DL>
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<B>casualism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a state of things in which chance prevails. <DD><B> 2. </B>the doctrine that all things exist or are governed by chance or accident. noun <B>casualist.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="casuallaborer">
<B>casual laborer,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a person with no regular job. </DL>
<A NAME="casualty">
<B>casualty, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a soldier, sailor, or other member of the armed forces who has been wounded, killed, captured, or has fallen ill as a result of enemy action. <BR> <I>Ex. The war produced many casualties in both armies. In Israel, every casualty of the war is like a family crisis (James Reston).</I> <DD><B> 2a. </B>a person injured or killed in an accident or disaster. <BR> <I>Ex. If drivers were more careful, there would be fewer casualties on the highways. The earthquake caused many casualties.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>(Figurative.) anything destroyed or lost accidentally. <BR> <I>Ex. Truth is the first casualty of war (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>an accident, especially a fatal or a serious one. <BR> <I>Ex. a casualty at sea. Several casualties have happened this week, and the bill of mortality is very much increased (Jonathan Swift).</I> (SYN) mishap, disaster. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Scottish.) an incidental charge or payment. <DD><B> 5. </B>chance or accident as the basis of events. <BR> <I>Ex. Combinations of skilful genius with happy casualty (Samuel Johnson).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="casualwater">
<B>casual water,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an accumulation of water that is not one of the regular hazards of a golf course. </DL>
<A NAME="casuarina">
<B>casuarina, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a genus of trees or shrubs, native chiefly to Australia, having long, jointed, whiplike, green branches bearing whorls of small scales at the nodes. <BR> <I>Ex. A new township has risen amid the gum trees and casuarinas of the Australian bush (Economist).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="casuist">
<B>casuist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who reasons cleverly but falsely, especially in regard to right and wrong. (SYN) sophist, quibbler. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who decides questions of right and wrong in regard to conscience or conduct, applying general moral principles to a particular case. <BR> <I>Ex. Who shall decide, when doctors disagree, and soundest casuists doubt, like you and me? (Alexander Pope).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="casuistic">
<B>casuistic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or like casuists; of or using casuistry. <BR> <I>Ex. the weedy pool of casuistic argument.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>too subtle; sophistical; deceptive. <BR> <I>Ex. a casuistic defense.</I> adv. <B>casuistically.</B> </DL>
<B>casuistry, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>clever but false reasoning, especially in regard to right and wrong. <BR> <I>Ex. Casuistry ... destroys, by distinctions and exceptions, all morality, and effaces the essential difference between right and wrong (Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke).</I> (SYN) sophism, sophistry. <DD><B> 2. </B>the act or process of deciding questions of right and wrong in regard to conscience or conduct. </DL>
<A NAME="casula">
<B>casula, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a priest's vestment; chasuble. </DL>
<B>casus belli,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) <DD><B> 1. </B>an occurrence or series of events which is considered a justification for going to war. <BR> <I>Ex. A new restraint in reacting to border incidents, such as the shooting down of a plane, that formerly might have been considered a casus belli, ... leads to the hope that the stalemate may keep its precarious stability for a long time (Bulletin of Atomic Scientists).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(literally) a case of war. </DL>
