But save my life, which lot before your foot doth lay. Spenser.

The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord. Prov. xvi. 33.

If we draw lots, he speeds. Shak.

O visions ill foreseen! Each day's lot's
Enough to bear. Milton.

He was but born to try
The lot of man -- to suffer and to die. Pope.

I, this winter, met with a very large lot of English heads, chiefly of the reign of James I. Walpole.

The defendants leased a house and lot in the city of New York. Kent.

He wrote to her . . . he might be detained in London by a lot of business. W. Black.

To cast in one's lot with, to share the fortunes of. -- To cast lots, to use or throw a die, or some other instrument, by the unforeseen turn or position of which, an event is by previous agreement determined. -- To draw lots, to determine an event, or make a decision, by drawing one thing from a number whose marks are concealed from the drawer. -- To pay scot and lot, to pay taxes according to one's ability. See Scot.

To lot on or upon, to count or reckon upon; to expect with pleasure. [Colloq. U. S.]