Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CASTE, n.

In Hindoostan, a tribe or class of the same rank or profession; as, the caste of bramins, or priests; of rajahs, or princes; of choutres, or artificers; and of parias, or poor people. Or according to some writers, of bramins; of cuttery, or soldiers; of shuddery, or merchants; and of wyse, or mechanics. – Encyc. The four castes of the Hindoos are the Bramins or sacred order; the Chehteree or soldiers and rulers; the Bice, Vaissya, or husbandmen and merchants; and the Sooders, Sudras, or laborers and mechanics. – Cyc. Ed. Encyc.