[UP- 5. In predicative use upca·st.]
1. Of the eye or look: Turned or directed upwards.
c. 1402. Lydg., Compl. Bl. Knt., 216. Lying in a traunce, With loke up-cast. Ibid. (1412–20), Chron. Troy, IV. 1481. With eye vp-cast in rancour and in Ire.
1676. Dryden, State Innoc., II. ii. Beasts with up-cast eyes forsake their Shade.
1715. Addison, To Sir G. Kneller, 61. Old Saturn too with upcast eyes Beheld his abdicated skies.
1816. Keats, ‘I stood Tip-toe,’ 122. Lover of loneliness,… Of upcast eye, and tender pondering!
1887. J. Ker, Serm., Ser. II. xiv. 210. With that upcast look to Christ’s face.
2. Raised up, prominent rare–1.
1658. A. Fox, trans. Wurtz’ Surg., II. x. 87. Do not stitch [the wound];… it would cause an ugly up-cast scarr.
3. Upcast dyke (in mining), = UPCAST sb. 3.
1810. J. Bailey, Agric. Durham, 29. They are denominated up-cast dykes, and down-cast dykes, as the strata are cast up or down, according to the direction in which the colliery is working.
1825. E. Mackenzie, View Northumbld. (ed. 2), I. 82. When the miner finds the vein he has been working thrown below his feet, he calls it a Downcast Dike; but if it be thrown upwards it is then an Upcast Dike.
4. Cast, thrown, or tossed upwards.
1823. Joanna Baillie, Poems, 260. The mighty Geyser’s upcast stream.
1827. Carlyle, Richter, Misc. (1840), I. 29. Close by their outer churchyards, where crumbled upcast coffin-boards were glimmering.
1892. Pall Mall G., 21 Sept., 6/1. The usual upcast spray of water [of a fountain].
