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1. bandar, n. View full entry 1885
...The Rhesus monkey, Macaca mulatta. Also in Bandar-logHindilog people, Kipling's nation of monkeys (see quot. 1894); hence fig., any body of irresponsible...
2. bat, n.5 View full entry 1887
...the bat: the colloquial speech of a foreign country; chiefly in phr. to sling the bat....
3. chittack, n. View full entry 1899
...An Indian weight about equal to 1 ounce, 17 pennyweights, 12 grains troy....
4. churel, n. View full entry 1901
...In India, the ghost of a woman who has died in child-birth, believed to haunt lonely places malevolently and to spread disease....
5. ek dum, adv. View full entry 1895
...At once, immediately....
6. hai, int. View full entry 1901
...Expressing astonishment, grief, outrage, regret, or pain: ‘Oh no!’ ‘Oh dear!’...
7. jadoo, n. View full entry 1886
...Magic, conjuring....
8. jildi, n. View full entry 1890
...Haste, as in phrases on the jildi, in a hurry, and to do or move a jildi....
9. jiwan, n. View full entry 1915
...= jawan; also, an Indian youth....
10. leep, v. View full entry 1895
...trans. To wash with cow-dung and water....
11. loo, n.3 View full entry 1888
...The name given in Bihar and the Punjab to a hot dust-laden wind....
12. pahareen, n. View full entry 1901
...A female member of the Pahari people of the Himalayan regions of Nepal and northern India....
13. puri, n.2 View full entry 1917
...A small round cake of unleavened wheat flour, deep-fried in ghee or oil....
14. shadi, n. View full entry 1893
...In South Asia: a wedding, marriage....
15. tar, n.2 View full entry 1893
...A telegram....
