Upcast: Definition and part of speech

Upcast

  1. v. t. To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid.
  2. a. Cast up; thrown upward; as, with upcast eyes.
  3. n. A cast; a throw.
  4. n. The ventilating shaft of a mine out of which the air passes after having circulated through the mine; — distinguished from the downcast. Called also upcast pit, and upcast shaft.
  5. n. An upset, as from a carriage.
  6. n. A taunt; a reproach.
  7. v. t. To cast or throw up; to turn upward.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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