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1. aiyo, int. View full entry 1886
...In southern India and Sri Lanka, expressing distress, regret, or grief; ‘Oh no!’, ‘Oh dear!’...
2. appam, n. View full entry 1972
...In South and South-East Asian cookery: a thin pancake made with rice flour (typically fermented with toddy or yeast) and coconut or coconut milk....
3. bandicoot, n. View full entry 1789
...A large Indian rat (Mus malabaricus or giganteus), as big as a cat, and very destructive. (Wrongly used in quot. 1789 for the Musk-rat.)...
4. bandy, n.2 View full entry 1791
...A carriage, bullock-carriage, buggy, or cart, used in India....
5. bilimbi, n. View full entry 1790
...A tree (Averrhoa Bilimbi, family Oxalidaceæ), growing in India and Sri Lanka, which yields a juice used as a native cure for skin-diseases; (also) the fruit of this...
6. ˈcandy, n.3 View full entry 1618
...A weight used in southern and western India, varying greatly in different parts, but averaging 500 pounds av....
7. cash, n.2 View full entry 1598
...A name applied by Europeans to various coins of low value in the East Indies and China....
8. catamaran, n. View full entry 1697
...A kind of raft or float, consisting of two, three or more logs tied together side by side, the middle one being longer than the others; used in the East Indies, especially...
9. cattimandoo, n. View full entry 1851
...A resinous substance obtained from the milky juice of Euphorbia cattimandoo or other species of Euphorbia; used as a cement and as a medicine for rheumatism....
10. cawney | cawny, n. View full entry 1807
...A measure of land used in the Madras Presidency: about 1⅓ acre. The systematic spelling is káni....
11. chay | choy | chaya, n.1 View full entry 1588
...The root of the Indian plant Oldenlandia umbellata (family Cinconaceæ), used to give a deep red dye to Indian cottons....
12. chetty, n. View full entry 1598
...An individual of any of the South-Indian trading castes so named. Also attrib....
13. ˈcholum, n. View full entry 1858
...A grass, the Indian millet or Guinea corn (Sorghum vulgare), largely grown for food in India and other parts of the East....
14. choultry, n. View full entry 1698
...A place for the reception and accommodation of travellers; an inn, caravanserai; also used for the transaction of public business (Yule)....
15. chuckler, n.2 View full entry 1759
...One of a very low caste in Southern India, the members of which are tanners or cobblers; colloq. a native shoemaker....
16. chunam, n. View full entry 1687
...Cement or plaster largely used in India, made of shell-lime and sea-sand....
17. coir, n. View full entry 1582
...The prepared fibre of the husk of the coco-nut, used for making ropes, cordage, matting, etc. Originally, the thread or cordage made of this fibre....
18. Collery, n. View full entry 1763
...The name of a non-Aryan people inhabiting an area of southern India to the east of Madura....
19. conicopoly, n. View full entry 1680
...In southern India: an Indian clerk or writer....
20. conjee | congee, n. View full entry 1698
...The water in which rice has been boiled; used as an article of diet for invalids, and as starch....
