cast up one's accounts
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cast up one's accounts
verb casts up one's accounts · casting up one's accounts · cast up one's accounts · cast up accounts
- To come to an accounting; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; reckon. He was very careful to cast up his accounts every quarter ; which he did, that he might spend neither more nor less than what he could spend every year.
- To vomit. To cast up one's accounts upon excessive drinking ; either, says Cotgrave, because in spewing one makes a noise like a fox that barks, or (from the subject to the effect) because the flaying of so unsavoury a beast will make any one spew.
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