Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A Middle English preterit of cast.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • imperative obsolete of cast.

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Examples

  • He was the victim of an early marriage, which was the norm in Ashkenazi society, and was harmed by the custom known as kest, according to which the young groom spent the first few years of his married life in the home of his mother-in-law.

    Haskalah Literature: Portrayal of Women. 2009

  • When the right doesn't win they turn into domestic terrorist. anna kest

    Clinton warns against violent anti-government attitude 2010

  • The fun way to learn French la question à mille francs (lah-kest-yon-ah-meel-frahn) : the sixty-four thousand dollar question (something that is not known, the answer for which wins top prize!)

    French Word-A-Day: 2010

  • When three convicts kest a family hostage in their home ..

    Obama speaks with Gates' arresting officer 2009

  • The fun way to learn French la question à mille francs (lah-kest-yon-ah-meel-frahn) : the sixty-four thousand dollar question (something that is not known, the answer for which wins top prize!)

    la question mille francs - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • No Kazzie pic with it, sadly—she's sleepy from all the action of this afternoon. kest came by to help me more stuff—another dozen boxes of books, a microwave, some clothes, a bookcase that went home with kest.

    Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2010

  • And the Oscar for best birthday goes to....me! la_nausicaa, strangebint, kest, tim_pratt, rambleflower, and Kurt, River, and Seth took me Somerset for brunch, which was very tasty indeed.

    Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2010

  • Kolleeg on justkui uppunud, aga samas on see naine vaid tühi vett-täis kest.

    Carlton Mellick III «Porno in August» Ulmeguru 2009

  • I'm not a huge Mexican food person, but I like La Fiesta and have been there a bunch of times, almost invariably with kest.

    Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2009

  • Than the king kest abak his handis betwix the tindis of this hart, to haif savit him fra the strak thairof; and the haly croce slaid, incontinent, in his handis.

    Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

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