? Obs. or arch. Forms: 5 pl. lingattis, 7 (lignot), lingat(e, linget, (8 lignate), 6– lingot. [a. F. lingot: see INGOT.]

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  1.  A mold in which metal is cast; = INGOT 1.

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1540.  Ld. Treas. Acc. Scot., in Pitcairn, Crim. Trials, I. 307*. With other gold wark, to be meltit in ane grete lingot.

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1686.  W. Harris, trans. Lemery’s Course Chym. (ed. 2), 36. Lingots are Iron molds [etc.].

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1688.  [see INGOT 1].

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  2.  A mass of metal shaped like the mold in which it has been cast; = INGOT 2.

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1488.  Ld. Treas. Acc. Scot., I. 84. Twa lingattis of gold.

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1584.  Hudson, Du Bartas’ Judith, V. (1608), 77. Golden lingots.

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1605.  Camden, Rem. (1637). 179. Among the Lacedemonians iron lingets quenched with vinegar that they may serve to no other use [have been used for money].

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1653.  H. Cogan, trans. Pinto’s Trav., xiv. (1663), 42. Lingots of silver.

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1670.  Ld. Fountainhall, in M. P. Brown, Suppl. Decis. (1826), II. 477. Some lignates of copper.

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1697.  Evelyn, Numism., i. 13. They paid Sums in France by Lingat as well as in coin.

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1776.  Swinburne, Trav. Spain, xliv. (1779), 409. The port of Cadiz, where the lingots of America are landed.

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1801.  Hel. M. Williams, Sk. Fr. Rep., I. xviii. 226. The vandalic fury that … melted into lingots the most exquisite pieces of bronze.

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1841.  C. Mackay, Mem. Pop. Delusions, III. 187. The Baron … showed me a lingot of gold made out of pewter.

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  transf. and fig.  1856.  Mrs. Browning, Aur. Leigh, VII. 1124. The house’s front Was cased with lingots of ripe Indian corn.

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1868.  Browning, Ring & Bk., I. 459. Thence bit by bit I dug The lingot truth, that memorable day.

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