Adjacent Words
To look blueTo look daggers
To look down on
To look for
To look forth
To look in the face
To look into
To look on
To look or speak
To look out
To look through
To look to
To look up
To look up to
To loose sails
To lose ground
To lose heart
To lose one's bearings
To lose one's head
To lose one's heart
To lose one's life
To lose one's mind
To lose one's self
To lose sight of
To lose the bell
To lose the fang
To lot on
To lower the yards a-portoise
To luff alee
To luff round
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Caste Caste, n. [Pg. casta race, lineage, fr. L. castus pure, chaste: cf. F. caste, of same origin.] 1. One of the hereditary classes into which the Hindoos are divided according to the laws of Brahmanism. Note: The members of the same caste are theoretically of equal rank, and same profession or occupation, and may not eat or intermarry with those not of their own caste. The original are four, viz., the Brahmans, or sacerdotal order; the Kshatriyas, or soldiers and rulers; the Vaisyas, or husbandmen and merchants; and the Sudras, or laborers and mechanics. Men of no caste are Pariahs, outcasts. Numerous mixed classes, or castes, have sprung up in the progress of time. 2. A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly hold intercourse among themselves. The tinkers then formed an hereditary caste. --Macaulay. To lose caste, to be degraded from the caste to which one has belonged; to lose social position or consideration.
