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Castilian, a. and n.2|kæˈstɪlɪən|
[in sense 1, ad. Sp. Castellano pertaining to the Spanish province of Castile (Castella, so called from the numerous forts erected by Alfonso I for its defence).]
1. Of or pertaining to Castile; a native of Castile; the language of that province, hence, standard Spanish, as distinct from any provincial dialect.
1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 393 The old Castilians are laborious. 1822K. Digby Broadst. Hon. I. 219 Willing to adopt the Castilian maxim, that ‘every man is the son of his own works’. 1860All Y. Round No. 68. 419 The Castilian is driving all the provincial idioms of Spain from the field. 1867M. E. Herbert Impress. Spain 122 Whose pure Castilian accent made his Spanish perfectly intelligible.
†2. A Spanish gold coin worth about 5s. sterling. Obs.
1526Eden Decades W. Ind. (Arb.) 238 Barres of golde..of such byggenesse that sum of them way more then two hundreth Castilians [ed. 1577 Castelan] or ducades of golde. [1846Prescott Ferd. II. ix. 463 Two hundred thousand castellanos of gold went down in the ships with Bobadilla.]
3. Castilian furnace: a lead-smelting furnace first used in Spain (but invented by an Englishman named Goundry), which is specially adapted for the treatment of ores of low produce. It is arranged so as to run off a constant stream of slag into cast-iron wagons which succeed each other as they are filled.
1875Ure Dict. Arts III. 62. Ibid. 74 The slag-hearth..might in many cases be advantageously exchanged for the Castilian furnace. |