in the Materia Medica, a root approaching to that of zedoary.

It is cardiac and sudorific, and famous in nervous cases: it is also an ingredient in many compositions, and is preferred in powders, solutions, and infusions. Its dose is from five to fifteen grains.

CAST is peculiarly used to denote a figure or small statue of bronze. See Bronze.

Cast, among founders, is applied to tubes of wax fitted in divers parts of a mould of the same matter, by means of which, when the wax of the mould is removed, the melted metal is conveyed into all the parts which the wax before possessed.

Cast also denotes a cylindrical piece of brass or copper, slit in two, lengthwise, used by the founders in land, to form a canal or conduit in their moulds, whereby the metal may be conveyed to the different pieces intended to be cast.

Cast, among plumbers, denotes a little brass funnel at one end of a mould, for casting pipes without soldering, by means of which the melted metal is poured into the mould.