English Dictionary

castling

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈkɑːstlɪŋ/

名詞

廃用

(obsolete) An abortion, or a premature birth. / (obsolete) The second or third swarm of bees which leaves a hive in a season. / A miniature cast or mould. / One that is cast.

日本語の意味

(古語) 流産、または早産 / (古語) 一季節に巣箱から出る第2または第3の蜂群 / 小型の鋳型または型 / 鋳造されたもの

In old medical texts, the term castling referred to an abortion or other premature birth.

古い医学書では、その語は中絶や早産を指していた。

意味（1）

(obsolete) An abortion, or a premature birth.

1646: Wherein notwithstanding, we should rather rely upon the urine in a castling’s bladder — Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Book II, ch 5

意味（2）

(obsolete) The second or third swarm of bees which leaves a hive in a season.

意味（3）

A miniature cast or mould.

From the Celeste's own image was the first castling molded. A soft, delicate creature of flesh and blood she would call Woman. So that Her castlings may never feel the loneliness she Herself did suffer, she bestowed woman with a mate …

意味（4）

One that is cast.

… shift for themselves, and seek out new habitations; such castlings might in their waudring throughout the South Sea (most of the Oriental Islands being formerly inhabited by by their Off-spring) fall with the coast of Term Primitive Language.

castlings （ plural ）