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Terms vs Umbecast - What's the difference?

terms | umbecast |

As a noun terms

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As a verb umbecast is

(transitive|intransitive|obsolete|or|dialectal) to cast about; make a circuit; travel around (a place).

terms

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Noun

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    umbecast

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    Verb

  • (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.
  • ... and the dog came after, and umbecast about, for she had lost the very perfect feute of the hind.'' — Mallory, ''Le Morte de Arthur
  • To surround, encircle, beset; umbeset, circle around.
  • To bind, tie up.
  • To cast a shadow, cover with a shadow, shade
  • (Webster 1913)