out|cast

out|cast
out|cast1 «noun, adjective. OWT KAST, -KAHST; verb. owt KAST, -KAHST», noun, adjective, verb, -cast, -cast|ing.
–n.
1. a person or animal cast out from home and friends: »

Criminals are outcasts of society. That kitten was just a little outcast when we found it. Pearl was a born outcast of the infantile world (Hawthorne).

2. a) refuse; offal. b) a plant thrown out from a garden.
–adj.
1. being an outcast; homeless; friendless.
–v.t.
to cast out; reject; banish: »

The patient was outcast by society, left on a barren island (Philip Hope-Wallace).

[< out + cast, verb]
out|cast2 «OWT KAST, -KAHST», noun.
Scottish. a falling out; quarrel.
[< out- to the end + dialectal cast disagree]

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