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Castor   /kˈæstər/   Listen
Castor

noun
1.
A multiple star with 6 components; second brightest in Gemini; close to Pollux.  Synonym: Alpha Geminorum.
2.
A shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling powdered sugar.  Synonym: caster.
3.
A pivoting roller attached to the bottom of furniture or trucks or portable machines to make them movable.  Synonym: caster.
4.
A hat made with the fur of a beaver (or similar material).  Synonym: beaver.
5.
Type genus of the Castoridae: beavers.  Synonym: genus Castor.



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"Castor" Quotes from Famous Books



... the past is over; indolently now 25 She rusts, a life in autumn, and her age devotes To Castor and with him ...
— The Poems and Fragments of Catullus • Catullus

... twins of Intellect, rejoice and breathe freest in the pure ether of Architecture, or Spirit, like Castor or Pollux under the breezy heaven of their father ...
— On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) - A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature • John Ruskin

... Vocaret aura, sive utrumque Iuppiter 20 Simul secundus incidisset in pedem; Neque ulla vota litoralibus deis Sibi esse facta, cum veniret a marei Novissime hunc ad usque limpidum lacum. Sed haec prius fuere: nunc recondita 25 Senet quiete seque dedicat tibi, Gemelle Castor et gemelle Castoris. ...
— The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus • Caius Valerius Catullus

... the last ten years or mair. Thae medicine kist he prizes mair than his sole remaining e'e, an' fancies himsel a dochtor fitting a king. Ye canna' please him mair than by gie'n' him a job. The last voyage he made in this verra brig, he administered in his ignorance, a hale pint o' castor oil in ain dose to a lad on board, which took the puir fallow aff his legs completely. Anither specimen o' his medical skill was gie'n are o' his crew, a heapen spun-fu' o' calomel, which he mistook for magnesia. I varilie believe ...
— Flora Lyndsay - or, Passages in an Eventful Life • Susan Moodie

... head of the state. At twelve she knew lots of things which her mother had never thoroughly learned, and Susy, her temporary mother, had never even guessed at: she spoke with authority on all vital subjects, from castor-oil to flannel under-clothes, from the fair sharing of stamps or marbles to the number of helpings of rice-pudding or jam which ...
— The Glimpses of the Moon • Edith Wharton


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