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‖ mangelin Obs.
Also 6 mangiar, mangelyn, mangiallin, mangalin.
[a. Telugu manjāli = Tamil manjādi.]
A weight formerly used in Southern India and Ceylon for weighing precious stones, varying, apparently according to the district, from half a carat to two carats.
1555Eden Decades 234 A poyse or weight which they caule Mangiar, which wayeth two Tarre, and two thyrdes, which amount to two thyrdes or thirde partes of one caratte. 1584W. Barret in Hakluyt's Voy. (1599) II. i. 274 Another sort of weight called Mangiallins, which is 5 graines of Venice weight. 1598W. Phillip Linschoten i. lxxxv. 133 Sometimes they find Diamonds of one hundred and two hundred Mangelyns, and more. 1615tr. De Monfart's Surv. E. Indies 35 It waigheth 198. Mangelins, and each Mangelin waigheth fiue graines. 1678J. Phillips tr. Tavernier's Trav. ii. ii. xiv. 140 At the Mine of Raolconda they weigh by Mangelins, a Mangelin being one Carat and three quarters, that is seven Grains. |