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1. accommodation, n. View full entry 1566
...Adaptation; the process of being adapted....
2. Anglo, n.3 View full entry ?1943
...Chiefly Indian English. A person of mixed British and Indian descent; = Anglo-Indian2....
3. Anglo-Vernacular, adj. View full entry 1841
...Designating an Indian school in which teaching is conducted in both English and Indian languages....
4. bearer, n. View full entry a1382
...One who carries or conveys; a carrier, a porter....
5. black water, n. View full entry 1676
...A river or stream with water stained brown or black by peat or other plant material; (in later use) spec. one flowing through a tropical forest growing on a nutrient-poor...
6. bobbery, adj. View full entry 1873
...Of a pack of hounds: miscellaneous in breed or quality. Also more widely: poor, of indifferent quality, ‘scratch’. See also quot. 1934....
7. cart, v. View full entry 1393
...trans. To carry or convey in a cart; also fig.to cart off or away: to carry off or away in a cart; hence gen. to carry...
8. chick, n.3 View full entry 1866
...An abbreviation of chickeen, chequeen, the Venetian gold coin, long current on the shores of India, and there valued at four rupees....
9. chit, n.5 View full entry 1785
...Short for chitty...
10. collector, n. View full entry c1380
...One who collects or gathers together; spec. one who gathers separate literary compositions, etc., into one book, a compiler (now rare or obs.), one who collects...
11. collectorate, n. View full entry 1825
...The district under the jurisdiction of a collector (see collector3)....
12. coˈllectorship, n. View full entry 1553
...The office of a collector....
13. coolie, n. View full entry 1622
...In India and (later also) China: a hired labourer (esp. one employed by a European); a porter (now esp. in a railway station). Hence also: an Asian labourer working abroad (now chiefly...
14. cot, n.4 View full entry 1634
...Anglo-Indian. A light bedstead; a charpoy....
15. dayal, n. View full entry 1855
...= dial-bird...
16. duck, n.1 View full entry 967
...A swimming bird of the genus Anas and kindred genera of the family Anatidæ, of which species are found all over the world....
17. English, adj. (and adv.) and n. View full entry eOE
...Of or belonging to England (or Britain) or its inhabitants....
18. eve-teaser, n. View full entry 1960
...A man who sexually harasses a woman in a public place. Cf. eve-teasing...
19. fooding, n. View full entry a1425
...The act of feeding; the provision of food. Also: food. Now chiefly Indian English....
20. freeship, n. View full entry lOE
...Exemption from a service, obligation, charge, or duty; an immunity, a privilege; = immunity1. Obs....
