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English
Etymology
From Middle English umbecasten, equivalent to umbe- + cast or um- + becast.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌʌmbəˈkæst/, /ˌʌmbəˈkɑːst/
Verb
umbecast (third-person singular simple present umbecasts, present participle umbecasting, simple past and past participle umbecast)
- (transitive, intransitive, obsolete or dialectal) To cast about; make a circuit; travel around (a place).
- (transitive, intransitive, obsolete or dialectal) To consider, ponder.
- To hunt, search for the spoor, explore, seek, sniff around.
1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], (please specify the book number), by
William Caxton], published
31 July 1485,
→OCLC; republished as H
Oskar Sommer, editor,
Le Morte Darthur , London:
David Nutt,
,
1889,
→OCLC:
[…] and the dog came after, and umbecast about, for she had lost the very perfect feute of the hind.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- To surround, encircle, beset; umbeset, circle around.
- To bind, tie up.
- To cast a shadow, cover with a shadow, shade
References
“umbecast”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.