s. Any artificial embank- ment, a dam, dyke, or causeway. H. band. The root is both Skt. (bandh) and P., but the common word, used as it is without aspirate, seems to have come from the latter.

s. The word bulbul is originally Persian (no doubt intended to imitate the bird's note), and applied to a bird which does duty with Persian poets for the nightingale.

s. One following evil courses; Fr. mauvais sujet; It. malandrino. Properly bad-ma'āsh, from P. bad, 'evil,' and Ar. ma'āsh, 'means of livelihood.'

s. Hybrid H. Bakas- (i.e. box) wālā. A native itinerant pedlar, or packman, as he would be called in Scotland by an analogous term. The Boxwālā sells cutlery, cheap nick-nacks, and small wares of all kinds, chiefly European.

s. The universal word in the Anglo-Indian households of N. India for the domestic (corresponding to the saḳḳā of Egypt) who supplies the family with water, carrying it in a mussuck, (q.v.), or goatskin, slung on his back.

s. Hind. from Pers. shikār, 'la chasse'; sport (in the sense of shooting and hunting); game.

s. Hind. thag, Mahr. thak, Skt. sthaga, 'a cheat, a swindler.'

s. H. &c. From P. bāzār, a permanent market or street of shops.

s. An entertainment, a spectacle (in the French sense), a popular excitement. It is Ar. tamāshi, 'going about to look at anything entertaining.'

s. This familiar word is of Skt. origin. Sarkara originally signifies 'grit or gravel,' thence crystallised sugar, and through a Prakrit form sakkara gave the Pers. shakkar, the Greek SA/KXAR and SA/KXARON, and the late Latin saccharum.

s. A native lady's-maid or nurse-maid. The word has been adopted into most of the Indian vernaculars in the forms āya or āyā, but it is really Portuguese (f. aia, 'a nurse, or governess'; m. aio, 'the governor of a young noble').

adj. Skt. Ārya, 'noble.' A term frequently used to include all the races (Indo-Persic, Greek, Roman, Celtic, Sclavonic, &c.) which speak languages belonging to the same family as Sanskrit.

s. Properly H. āna, ānah, the 16th part of a rupee.

adj. Hind. pakkā, 'ripe, mature, cooked'; and hence substantial, permanent, with many specific applications, of which examples have been given under the habitually contrasted term cutcha (q.v.).

s. H. bangṛī or bangrī. The original word properly means a ring of coloured glass worn on the wrist by women; [the chūrī of N. India;] but bangle is applied to any native ring-bracelet, and also to an anklet or ring of any kind worn on the ankle or leg.

s. Skt. Avatāra, an incarnation on earth of a divine Being.

s. A group of coral islands forming a ring or chaplet, sometimes of many miles in diameter, inclosing a space of comparatively shallow water, each of the islands being on the same type as the atoll. We derive the expression from the Maldive islands, which are the typical examples of this structure, and where the form of the word is atoḷu.

s. P. āchār, Malay ắchār, adopted in nearly all the vernaculars of India for acid and salt relishes.

also elliptically Banyan , s. The Indian Fig-Tree (Ficus Indica, or Ficus bengalensis, L.), called in H. baṛ [or baṛgat, the latter the "Bourgade" of Bernier (ed. Constable, p. 309).]

GUNJA , s. Hind. gānjhā, gānjā. The flowering or fruiting shoots of the female plant of Indian hemp (Cannabis sativa, L., formerly distinguished as C. indica), used as an intoxicant. (See BANG.)

s. & v. Plunder; Hind. lūṭ, and that from Skt. lotra, for loptra, root lup, 'rob, plunder'; [rather luṇṭ, 'to rob'].

s. Idle gossip. P. -- H. gap, 'prattle, tattle.'

s.; GRIF-FISH, adj. One newly arrived in India, and unaccustomed to Indian ways and peculiarities; a Johnny Newcome.

s. A printed or spotted cotton cloth; Port. chita; Mahr. chīt, and H. chīṇt.

s. This is the word usually applied in Anglo-Indian families, by both Europeans and natives, to the children -- often in the plural form, bābā lōg (lōg='folk').

This, which is now the technical term for Manchester cottons imported into India, was originally applied in trade to the Indian cottons exported to England,

s. This word is quite modern, and was unknown 40 years ago. The first use that we can trace is (on the authority of Major John Trotter) at Rūrkī in 1861, when a gymkhana was instituted there.

s. A warehouse for goods and stores; an outbuilding used for stores; a store-room. The word is in constant use in the Chinese ports as well as in India.

s. Pers. zamīn-dār, 'landholder.' One holding land on which he pays revenue to the Government direct, and not to any intermediate superior.

s. Pers. zanāna, from zan, 'woman'; the apartments of a house in which the women of the family are secluded.

s. A person of mixt European and Indian blood.

s. A Police station. Hind. thāna, thānā, [Skt. sthāna, 'a place of standing, a post'].

s. A kind of ballet-dance performed by women; also any kind of stage entertainment; an European ball.

s. Tib. skyin. The Himalayan Ibex;

s. This is the name by which the Musa sapientum is universally known to Anglo-India. Books distinguish between the Musa sapientum or plantain, and the Musa paradisaica or banana; but it is hard to understand where the line is supposed to be drawn. Variation is gradual and infinite.

s. Or usually 'Otto of Roses,' or by imperfect purists 'Attar of Roses,' an essential oil obtained in India from the petals of the flower,

s. The name given to the periodical winds of the Indian seas, and of the seasons which they affect and characterize.

s. The authorised Anglo-Indian form of the name of a weight (Hind. man, Mahr. maṇ), which, with varying values, has been current over Western Asia from time immemorial.

s. P. -- H. lālā. In Persia this word seems to be used for a kind of domestic tutor; now for a male nurse, or as he would be called in India, 'child's bearer.'

s. Hind. ḍakait, ḍākāyat, ḍākū; a robber belonging to an armed gang.

s. An open pillared gallery round a house.

s. H. and Mahr. banglā. The most usual class of house occupied by Europeans in the interior of India; being on one story, and covered by a pyramidal roof, which in the normal bungalow is of thatch, but may be of tiles without impairing its title to be called a bungalow.