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▪ I. rough-cast, roughcast, ppl. a. and n.|ˈrʌfkɑːst, -æ-|
Also 7 ruff-cast.
[f. rough adv. and a. See cast v. 57, 45, and n. 25.]
I.
1. a. ppl. a. Of walls, etc.: Roughly coated with a mixture of lime and gravel.
1519W. Horman Vulg. 241 Some men wyll haue theyr wallys plastered, some pergetted.., some roughe caste. 1617Moryson Itin. i. 188 The building of the City is..of unpolished stone with the outside plastered, and rough cast. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. i. 7 As white-limed houses exceed those which are only rough cast. 1704Swift T. Tub xi, He rubbed..against a rough-cast Wall. 1830Miss Mitford Village Ser. iv. (1863) 259 A low, white, irregular, rough⁓cast building. 1861Neale Notes Dalmatia 97 Arbors running along the top of rough-cast walls.
b. transf. or fig. Also const. with.
1606Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. Magnificence 1266 Where Wals are rough-cast wth the richest Stones. 1655Vaughan Silex Scint. i. Regeneration, My walke a monstrous, mountain'd thing, Rough-cast with rocks and snow. 1681Grew Musæum i. iv. iv. 76 The Shell underneath or within is white: without, it is all over rough-cast.
c. Of glass: cast in a particular manner (see 2 d).
1939Archit. Rev. LXXXV. 99 (caption) Bent dome of ‘rough-cast’ glass used, at the Saint-Gobain pavilion, Paris 1937, as a simple and elegant alternative to the ordinary opaque basin. 1973Technical Translation Bull. XIX. 103 Plate glass..is expensive to produce owing to the need for grinding and polishing of the ‘rough cast plate’ produced as a first stage... Indeterminate patterns such as ‘rough cast’ or ‘cathedral’ are normally called ‘cast.’
2. a. n. A composition of lime and gravel, used as a plastering for the outside of walls.
1590Shakes. Mids. N. iii. i. 71 Let him haue some Plaster, or some Lome, or some rough cast about him, to signifie wall. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. i. 39 The face of her..looked like an old wall all to bedawbed with rough-cast. 1663Gerbier Counsel 79 Rough-cast upon Lath being very well done, is worth eighteen pence the yard. 1789M. Madan tr. Persius (1795) 120 note, The plaster, parget or rough cast of a wall. 1810Wordsw. Prose Wks. (1876) II. 277 The house must be covered with rough-cast, otherwise it cannot be kept dry. 1850Ecclesiol. XI. 74 Both tower and spire are covered with rough-cast. 1883I. Banks Forbidden to Marry I. v. 85 Black beams intersecting..the weather-stained roughcast.
b. transf. or fig. Also with a.
1609J. Davies (Heref.) Holy Roode D 2 b, A Rough-cast of thicke Gore his Body shrouds. 1648J. Beaumont Psyche xxii. ccxcix, Her scurfy Roughcast scaled off, and all Her Skin to fresh and tender smoothness left. 1658Rowland tr. Moufet's Theat. Ins. 922 [The wasp's nest is] well fenced above with a certain rough-cast to keep off all wind and weather.
c. attrib. Consisting of rough-cast. Also fig.
1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe Wks. (Grosart) V. 201 With light cost of rough cast rethoricke it may be tollerablely playstered ouer. c1670Wood Life (O.H.S.) I. 280 Two or three stones, and some rough-cast stuff were blown from off the tower. 1828Lights & Shades II. 122 A decent⁓looking inn with a rough-cast coating.
d. A type of glass (see quot. 1962).
1962Gloss. Terms Glass Industry (B.S.I.) 31 Rough cast, rolled translucent glass, one surface of which has a definite texture, made by rolling molten glass either on a table or between rollers. 1973[see sense 1 c].
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†3. n. A rough sketch or outline. Obs.
Properly in two words, as in the earlier quots.
1579Gosson Sch. Abuse (Arb.) 24 To show you that in a rough cast, which I see in a cloude. 1641Milton Ch. Govt. i. vii, If we look at his native towardlinesse in the rough cast without breeding. 1644Digby Nat. Bodies a iv b, A loose modell and roughcast of what I designe to do.
4. ppl. a. Roughly or rudely contrived, designed, or made; of a rough, imperfect type.
1591Nashe Prognostication Wks. (Grosart) II. 151 Vttering in their furye such rough cast eloquence. 1635–56Cowley Davideis i. 811 He smooth'd the rough-cast Moons imperfect mold. 1693Dryden Disc. Satire Ess. (Ker) II. 55 This rough-cast unhewn poetry was instead of stage-plays for the space of an hundred and twenty years together. 1714R. Fiddes Pract. Disc. II. 367 This brightest jewel and ornament of human nature is so rough cast. 1880Stallybrass tr. Grimm's Teut. Myth. I. 103, I can only look upon Cæsar's statements as a half-true and roughcast opinion. 1892J. Tait Mind in Matter (ed. 2) 159 The rough-cast ‘goodness’ of the bonus homo of Christianised heathenism.
▪ II. rough-cast, v.|ˈrʌfkɑːst, -æ-|
Also 7 rogh-, roof-.
[f. rough adv. + cast v. Cf. prec.]
1. trans. To coat, cover, or fill in, with rough-cast.
1565Cooper Thesaurus, Incrusto, to parget, or to roughe cast. 1584in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) I. 294 To Parkes seruant for roughcasting and filling the place behind the armes and Creast. 1639[see parget n. 1.]. 1757Phil. Trans. I. 199 The steeple is..roughcasted on the outside. 1797F. Burney Let. July 27 Our cottage is now in the act of being rough cast. 1833Loudon Encycl. Archit. §478 It is brought to an even surface by rough-casting it with a mixture of lime and fine gravel. 1875W. McIlwraith Guide Wigtownshire 31 Some of the houses have been carefully rough-cast and white-washed.
transf. and fig.1593Nashe Christ's T. Wks. (Grosart) IV. 210 With blacke boyling Pitch, rough cast ouer her counter⁓feite red and white. 1609J. Davies (Heref.) Hum. Heauen on Earth Wks. (Grosart) I. 43/2 Rogh-cast the skin of smooth-fac'd glozing Guile With burning blisters to consume the same. 1640Bastwick Lord Bishops ii. C, Thus did they incrustare vitia, parget, or roughcast their vices.
2. To mould, fashion, or shape roughly; to prepare in a rough form.
The first quot. may belong to sense 1.
1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. i. Ep. Ded., This Platonical Academie & schoole of moral philosophy, which..was raised up & set togither in France, & is newly rough-cast (as you see) by an English workman. a1613Overbury Characters, Taylor, Wks. (1856) 78 A Taylor is a creature made up out of threds, that were pared off from Adam, when he was rough-cast. a1658Cleveland Poems (1677) 58 Nor bodily, nor ghostly Negro could Roughcast thy Figure in a sadder mold. 1751Warburton & Hurd Lett. (1809) 85, I have so imperfect an idea of my subject, and rough-cast my composition so loosely, that my works, if they escape damning, are yet in a state of purgatory. 1835W. Irving in Life & Lett. (1866) III. 72, I have commenced, and have rough-cast several of the chapters.
Hence ˈrough-caster, a workman who puts on rough-cast.
1594in Antiquary XVII. 211 Itm. to the roughcaster, xxvjs., viijd. 1855in Ogilvie Suppl. |