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† ingenio Obs.|ɪnˈdʒiːnɪəʊ|
Also 7 ingenewe.
[a. Sp. ingenio (inˈxenjo) genius, engine (ingenio de azúcar sugar-mill):—L. ingenium clever thought, invention, in med.L. and Romanic, clever device, machine, engine.]
A sugar-mill, sugar-factory, or sugar-works (in the West Indies).
1600Hakluyt Voyages III. 718 Building his owne Ingenios or sugar-milles. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 630 His provisions for his Ingenewes or Sugar-gardens. Ibid. 732 Oviedo reckons almost thirty Ingenious, the number daily increasing. 1672W. Hughes Amer. Phys. 30 The Mill, Machine or Ingenio, where they squeeze them. 1722De Foe Col. Jack (1840) 315 They had an ingenio, that is to say a sugar-house, or sugar-work. 1887N. D. Davis Cavaliers Barbados 88 What we now call the Buildings or the Sugar Works, were at first known as the Ingenio.
†b. transf. A machine or mill for making cider.
1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 139 These Ingenioes are curiously made by Henry Allen at the Cabinet in Exeter-street..in the Strand. 1676― Cyder (1691) 98. 1676 Phil. Trans. XI. 574 A New invented Ingenio or Mill, for the more expeditious and better making of Cider. |