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1. chaco, n. View full entry 1826
...A military cap of cloth and leather, formerly worn by the infantry in the British army, having the form of a truncated cone with a peak in front....
2. csardas, n. View full entry 1860
...A Hungarian national dance....
3. czako, n. View full entry 1891
...= chaco, shako...
4. essive, n. View full entry 1890
...The designation of one of the fifteen cases of Finnish, a declension expressing a continuous state of being, existence in a specified state or capacity....
5. filler, n.3 View full entry 1904
...A Hungarian coin, the hundredth part of a forint....
6. forint, n. View full entry 1946
...The principal monetary unit of Hungary; a coin of this denomination....
7. goulash, n. View full entry 1866
...A stew or ragout of meat and vegetables highly seasoned. Often called Hungarian ragout....
8. heyduck, n. View full entry 1615
...A term app. meaning originally ‘robber, marauder, brigand’ (a sense still retained in Serbia and adjacent countries), which in Hungary became the name of a special body of foot-soldiers (to whom the...
9. Honved, n. View full entry 1854
...The name given to the Hungarian second-line formation during the revolutionary war of 18489; later also used of the militia reserve. Also, a member of either force....
10. hussar, n. View full entry 1532
...One of a body of light horsemen organized in Hungary in the 15th c., and long confined to the Hungarian army; hence, the name of light cavalry regiments formed in imitation of...
11. kantele, n. View full entry 1921
...A form of zither used in Finland and Karelia....
12. kornelite, n. View full entry 1892
...A violet to pale pink hydrated ferric sulphate, Fe2(SO4)3·7H2O....
13. kuvasz, n. View full entry 1935
...A large white long-coated Hungarian breed of dog, used as a guard dog in its native country....
14. laitakarite, n. View full entry 1959
...A white rhombohedral selenide and sulphide of bismuth, Bi4Se2S....
15. lassu, n. View full entry 1880
...The slow part of a Hungarian csardas (opp. friss)....
16. lorandite, n. View full entry 1895
...A sulphide of thallium and arsenic, TIAsS2, found as scarlet monoclinic crystals....
17. Ludian, n. View full entry 1921
...A language of the Finnish group of the Finno-Ugrian family of languages, used by a small number of speakers in the region of Olonets, now in the north-west part of the Russian...
18. Magyar, n. and adj. View full entry 1797
...A member of a Finno-Ugric people inhabiting Central Europe for many centuries and forming the majority of the population in the modern state of Hungary; a Hungarian. Chiefly hist....
19. markka, n. View full entry 1894
...The principal monetary unit of Finland, consisting of 100 penniä. Also: a coin or (occas.) a banknote of this value....
20. moha, n. View full entry 1855
...A cultivar of foxtail millet, Setaria italica, with slender panicles and relatively small grains, grown as a forage grass. Also called Hungarian grass....
