An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 148

9. The effect of ingenuity, as manifested in literary works.

_Douglas._

C. B. _cast_ signifies a trick, techna; Su. G. _kost_, modus agendi.

CAST, _s._

1. A district, a tract of country, S.

2. That particular course in which one travels, S.

_Ross._

CAST, _s._ _A cast_ of herrings, haddocks, oysters, &c., four in number, S.

Su. G. _kast-a_, to cast, to throw. _Ett kast sill_, quaternio halec.u.m.

_To_ CAST, _v. a._ To use, to propose, to bring forth. "To _cast_ essonyies," LL. S. to exhibit excuses.

Su. G. _kast-a_, mittere.

_To_ CAST _a clod between persons_, to widen the breach between them, S.

B.

_Ross._

_To_ CAST _a stone at_ one, to renounce all connexion with one, S.

_To_ CAST ~out~, _v. n._ To quarrel, S.

_Ramsay._

_To_ CAST ~up~, _v. a._ To throw any thing in one's teeth, to upbraid one with a thing, S.

_Ross._

_To_ CAST ~up~, _v. n._

V. ~Upcasting~.

_To_ CAST ~Words~, to quarrel, S. B.

_Wyntown._

Su. G. _ordkasta_, to quarrel.

CASTELWART, _s._ The keeper of a castle.

_Wyntown._

From _castle_ and _ward_.

CASTOCK, CASTACK, CUSTOC, _s._ The core or pith of a stalk of colewort or cabbage; often _kail-castock_, S.

_Journal Lond._

Belg. _keest_, medulla, cor, matrix arboris, the pith.

CAT and CLAY, the materials of which a mud-wall is constructed, in many parts of S. Straw and clay are well wrought together, and being formed into pretty large rolls, are laid between the different wooden posts by means of which the wall is formed, and carefully pressed down so as to incorporate with each other, or with the twigs that are sometimes plaited from one post to another, S.

CAT and DOG, the name of an ancient sport, S.

It seems to be an early form of _Cricket_.

CATBAND, _s._ The name given to the strong hook used on the inside of a door or gate, which being fixed to the wall, keeps it shut.

_Act Sedt._

Germ. _kette_, a chain, and _band_.

CATCHY, _adj._ Disposed to take the advantage of another, S. from the E.

_v. catch_.

CATCHROGUE, _s._ Cleavers or goose-gra.s.s, an herb, S. Galiam aparine, Linn.

CATCLUKE, CATLUKE, _s._ Trefoil; an herb, S. Lotus corniculatus, Linn.

_Douglas._

"Named from some fanciful resemblance it has to a _cat_ (cat's) or a _bird's foot_;" Rudd. Dan. _katte-cloe_, a cat's claw or _clutch_.