v. Obs. [f. FORTH adv. + CAST v.] trans. To cast forth.

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a. 1300.  E. E. Psalter, xlix. [l.] 17.

        Þou soth-like hated lare,
And forth-keste mi saghes hind-ward þare.

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a. 1340.  Hampole, Psalter, xvi. 12. Forthkastand me now þai haf vmgifen me.

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1674.  N. Fairfax, A Treatise of the Bulk and Selvedge of the World, 120. When motion is shifted or begotten in the thing mov’d or forthcast, this darting force or rally of stirring springs.

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  Hence † Forthcast ppl. a. Also † Forthcast sb., a thing cast forth, a projectile.

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1674.  N. Fairfax, A Treatise of the Bulk and Selvedge of the World, 122. This comes not home to the business of forthcast things. Ibid., 129. Only herein the motion that nature gives, is unlike to that which we bequeath to forthcasts.

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