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casto

casto, ~onus [cf. OF chaston] , setting (of gem), collet. 1205 recepimus ‥ j baculum cum xiij saphiris bonis in caston’ Pat 55a; 1238 parruram de consimili apparatu perlarum et lapidum cum ~onis Liberate 12 m. 9; 1315 ij ciphi parvi de murro veteres sine pedibus, circulis et ~onibus Invent. Ch. Ch. 74; 1328 ciphus ‥ cum pede, †castore et circulo (Invent.) Hist. Cath. Cant. app. p. xxii; 1334 ciphus ‥ magnus cum ~one argenteo et deaurato et operato; ‥ item ‥ ciphus cum ~one et circulo et scuto argenteo (Invent. Ch. Ch.) Arch. J. LIII 277; a1413 item habetur annulus magnus, cujus ~o hujus scematis et magnitudinis ‥ continens j gemmam in medio ‥ dictam vulgariter rubibaloiset plures gemmulas in ejus circuitu; in quo eciam ~one insculpuntur duo versus (Invent.) Amund. II app. 329–30.

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