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The heterodox Hindoo religion, of which the most striking features are the exaltation of saints or holy mortals, called jins, above the ordinary Hindoo gods, and the denial of the divine origin and infallibility of the Vedas. It is intermediate between Brahmanism and Buddhism, having some things in common with each.…

Ægyptius, which is common in Egypt and the adjacent countries. The jerboas have very long hind legs and a long tail. [Written also gerboa.]

Revolving around the planet Jupiter; appearing as viewed from Jupiter. [R.] J. R. Hind.

One of the names under which Vishnu, in his incarnation as Krishna, is worshiped by the Hindoos. [Written also Juggernnath, Jaganath, Jaganatha, etc.]

mping mouse (Zoöl.), North American mouse (Zapus Hudsonius), having a long tail and large hind legs. It is noted for its jumping powers. Called also kangaroo mouse. -- Jumping mullet (Zoöl.), gray mullet. -- Jumping shrew (Zoöl.), any African insectivore of the genus Macroscelides. They are allied to the shrews, but…

The Hindoo Cupid. He is represented as a beautiful youth, with a bow of sugar cane or flowers.

didæ. They inhabit Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands, They have long and strong hind legs and a large tail, while the fore legs are comparatively short and feeble. The giant kangaroo (Macropus major) is the largest species, sometimes becoming twelve or fourteen feet in total length. The tree kangaroos, belong…

unsel. See under Counsel, n. -- To keep down. (a) To hold in subjection; to restrain; to hinder.

To comb. [Obs.] His longe hair was kembed behind his back. Chaucer.

uke vi 35. O cruel Death, to those you take more kind Than to the wretched mortals left behind. Waller. A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind. Garrick.

s diamond, surrendered to the British crown on the annexation of the Punjab. According to Hindoo legends, it was found in a Golconda mine, and has been the property of various Hindoo and Persian rulers.

An individual of one of the races of aboriginal inhabitants which survive in Hindostan. -- a.

The most popular of the Hindoo divinities, usually held to be the eighth incarnation of the god Vishnu.

The military caste, the second of the four great Hindoo castes; also, a member of that caste. See Caste. [India]

osaurian reptiles from the Cretaceous formation of the United States. They had very large hind legs and tail, and are supposed to have been bipedal. Some of the species were about eighteen feet high.

Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy. [Obs.] Came too lag to see him buried. Shak.

Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks.

An inflammation and swelling of the soft parts of the roof of the mouth immediately behind the fore teeth in the horse; -- called also lampers.

s, to lap weather-boards; also, to be partly over, or by the side of (something); as, the hinder boat lapped the foremost one.

or horned larks, of the genus Otocoris. The true larks have holaspidean tarsi, very long hind claws, and usually, dull, sandy brown colors.