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1. Balti, adj. and n.1 View full entry 1845
...Of or relating to Baltistan, a Himalayan region of Kashmir (now in northern Pakistan), its inhabitants, or their language....
2. bing, n.2 View full entry 1702
...A kind of tea....
3. boh, n. View full entry 1888
...A chief or leader of dacoits....
4. bohea, adj. and n. View full entry 1702
...Of the Wu-i hills, whence black tea was first brought to England; applied also to tea of similar quality grown elsewhere....
5. bok choy, n. View full entry 1847
...A kind of edible Chinese cabbage, Brassica rapa (Chinensis group), having broad, smooth-edged leaves which taper into succulent broad white petioles....
6. byon, n. View full entry 1892
...The ruby-bearing clay of the ruby mines district of Upper Burma (Myanmar); also attrib....
7. campoi, n. View full entry 1842
...A fired variety of Congou tea....
8. cha | chah, n. View full entry 1616
...Properly, the name of tea in the Mandarin dialect of Chinese, which was occasionally used in English at the first introduction of the beverage. (Some subsequently applied it as a...
9. chang, n.2 View full entry 1800
...A Tibetan beer or wine made chiefly from barley or rice....
10. chaung, n. View full entry 1945
...In Burma (Myanmar), a watercourse....
11. chen shu, n. View full entry 1655
...= k'ai shu...
12. cheongsam, n. View full entry 1957
...A garment worn by Chinese women (see quots.)....
13. chetrum, n. View full entry 1969
...A monetary unit of Bhutan, standardized in 1974 but in use before, now equivalent to one-hundredth of a ngultrum. Cf. ngultrum...
14. Chin, n.2 View full entry 1873
...A member of a people inhabiting the Chin hills and adjacent districts in Burma (Myanmar)....
15. China, n.1 and adj. View full entry 1555
...The country so called, in Asia....
16. chin chin, n. View full entry 1795
...A phrase of salutation. Also used as a drinking toast....
17. Chindit, n. View full entry 1943
...A member of an Allied force fighting during the 193945 war behind the Japanese lines in Burma (now also called Myanmar)....
18. chiru, n. View full entry 1825
...The Tibetan antelope, Pantholops hodgsoni, with a thick, reddish-brown woolly coat, large nostrils, and (in the case of the male) very long straight horns....
19. chop-stick, n.2 View full entry 1699
...pl. The two small sticks or slips of bone, wood, ivory, or the like, held between the thumb and fingers of one hand by the Chinese in place of a fork...
20. chop-suey, n. View full entry 1888
...A Chinese dish of meat or chicken, rice, onions, etc., fried in sesame-oil. Also fig....
