▪ I. incast, n. local.
(ˈɪnkɑːst, -æ-)
[f. vbl. phrase cast in.]
Something ‘thrown in’; a quantity of some commodity given in addition to the exact measure.
| 1798 R. Douglas Agric. Surv. Roxb. & Selkirk 357 It is still usual in several places to give a pound of incast, as it is here called, to every stone of wool, and a fleece to every pack sold. 1863 Morton Cycl. Agric. (E.D.S.), Incast (Roxb. & Selkirksh.), a pound in a stone of wool, and a fleece in a pack, usually given above measure. |
▪ II. † inˈcast, v. Obs.
[f. in-1 + cast v.]
trans. To cast or throw in; fig. to suggest. Hence † ˈincasting vbl. n., throwing in; suggestion.
| 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. xxiv. (1495) 132 Somtyme hoorsnes of the throte fallith by incastynge of powdre. c 1440 Hylton Scala Perf. (W. de W. 1494) i. xxi, Yf they fele ony stiryng wythin by thyncastyng of thenmye, or elles fro wythout of ony of the deuylles prophets whiche men callen sothsayers. 1469 Sc. Acts Jas. III (1597) §34 The said poynding for mailles and annualles, in-casting and out-casting of tennentes, be deferred. 1616 J. Lane Cont. Sqr.'s T. ix. 63 Th' assailantes entries, evrie wheare to hinder, incastinge stooles, ropes, froes, chaines, manors, beddes, and all trassh whatsoever. |