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CASTILLAN

Volume 3 · 51 words · 1778 Edition

or CASTILLANE, a gold-coin, current in Spain, and worth fourteen rials and fifteen deniers.

CASTILLAN is also a weight used in Spain for weighing gold. It is the hundredth part of a pound Spanish weight. What they commonly call a weight of gold in Spain, is always understood of the castilian.