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1. ankus, n. View full entry 1886
...In India, an elephant-goad. Also attrib....
2. chappow, n. View full entry 1860
...A plundering expedition, a raid....
3. chobdar, n. View full entry 1687
...In India, an usher or beadle attending on persons of consequence, who bears as his ensign of office a staff overlaid with silver; he is ‘still a part of the state of...
4. circar, n. View full entry 1784
...A province or division of Hindustan under the Moguls. Northern Circars...
5. cossid, n. View full entry 1682
...‘A courier or running messenger’ (Yule)....
6. cowle, n. View full entry 1688
...A written engagement; a lease or grant in writing; a safe-conduct or amnesty....
7. daroga | darogha, n. View full entry 1638
...A governor, superintendent, chief officer, head of police or excise. Under the Mongols, the Governor of a province or city, but in later times gradually degraded....
8. daye, n. View full entry 1782
...In northern India and Iran: a nurse; a wet-nurse; a midwife....
9. dewan, n. View full entry 1669
...In India:...
10. dubba | dubber, n. View full entry 1698
...‘A leather bottle or skin bag, used chiefly in India for holding oil, ghee, and other liquids, and capable of holding, according to size, from 20 to 80 lbs. weight’ (Simmonds ...
11. duffaˈdar, n. View full entry 1800
...‘A petty officer of native police; and in regiments of Irregular Cavalry, a non-commissioned officer corresponding in rank to a corporal’ (Yule)....
12. dufter, n. View full entry 1776
...A bundle of official papers; a register, record....
13. durgah, n. View full entry 1793
...In India, ‘The shrine of a (Muslim) saint, a place of religious resort and prayer.’ (Yule.)...
14. dustoor, n. View full entry 1680
...Custom, usage, fashion....
15. duˈstoory, n. View full entry 1681
...A commission or perquisite by custom paid to or taken by an agent....
16. dustuck | dustuk, n. View full entry 1748
...A passport; applied esp. to the passports granted by the covenanted servants of the East India Company....
17. enam, n. View full entry 1803
...A grant of land free of the land-tax due to the State as supreme landlord; also, the land so held....
18. eˌnamˈdar, n. View full entry 1850
...One who holds an enam; an assignee of land free of land-tax....
19. grab, n.1 View full entry 1680
...A large coasting-vessel, drawing very little water, built with a prow and usually two-masted, used in the East (see quots. 17631839)....
20. haˈlalcor, n. View full entry 1662
...One of the lowest and most despised class in India, Iran, etc., (lit.) to whom everything is lawful food....
