in got

[A. S. in- =in, and goten poured, pa. par. of geotan to pour, to fuse metals; Fr. lingot, from l'ingot, the article being incorporated with the substantive; Ger.eingu , from gei en =to pour, to fuse.] 1. A cast ma of steel from the crucible; a cast ma of gold or silver, more or le pure, for a aying; a cast biock of gold, silver, or a properly proportioned alloy of either, for coinage, or for working into other forms, as watch-cases, . The crude ingot of gold or silver, after becoming a ayed and brought to the standard finene , is cast into bars ready for rolling, if for coin. Iron is cast into pigs , steel into ingots ; copper at one stage into bricks , at another into pigs ; tin is run into blocks ; silver from the subliming furnace is in porous blocks, called bricks . "Some gleam like silver, some outshine Wrought ingots from Besoara's mine." Sir W. Jones Hindu Wife. 2. A mold in which metal is cast.