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in which metal is cast; a mold. [Obs.] And from the fire he took up his matter And in the ingot put it with merry cheer. Chaucer.

Steel cast in ingots from the Bessemer converter or open-hearth furnace.

A linget or ingot; also, a mold for casting metals. See Linget.

A long plain double-breasted outside coat for women.

A small blunt-pointed bistoury, -- used in syringotomy.

The operation of cutting for anal fistula.

A large bar of steel formed directly from an ingot by hammering or rolling, being a preliminary shape for further working.

In forging and smelting, a trough in which tools and ingots are cooled.

Decarbonized steel, homogenous wrought iron made by a steel process, as that of Bessemer; ingot iron.

A small ingot of gold.

Gold and silver paper burned by the Chinese, in the form of coins or ingots, in worship and at funerals.

An ingot. [Written also lingot.]

To become hollow in the process of solodifying; -- said of an ingot, as of steel.

Steel low in carbon; mild steel; ingot iron.

Silver, pounded into ingots of the shape of a shoe, and used as currency. The most common weight is about one pound troy. [China] McElrath.

pel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement. Our ingots, tests, and many mo. Chaucer.

as if a part of the word. Thus in Chaucer, the forms thabsence, tharray, thegle, thend, thingot, etc., are found for the absence, the array, the eagle, the end, etc.

One who tops steel ingots.