English

Verb

umbecast ‎(third-person singular simple present umbecasts, present participle umbecasting, simple past and past participle umbecast)

1. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete or dialectal) To cast about; make a circuit; travel around (a place).
2. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete or dialectal) To consider, ponder.
3. 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

4. To surround, encircle, beset; umbeset, circle around.
5. To bind, tie up.
6. To cast a shadow, cover with a shadow, shade