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A pass through a mountain. [India] J. D. Hooker.

Butter clarified by boiling, and thus converted into a kind of oil. [India] Malcom.

A religious dance of the North American Indians, participated in by both sexes, and looked upon as a rite of invocation the purpose of which is, through trance and vision, to bring the dancer into communion with the unseen world and the spirits of departed friends. The dance is the chief rite of the Ghost-dance, or Mes…

The offspring of a Spaniard and an Indian; a Spanish-Indian mestizo. [Sp. Amer.]

A genus of climbing plants with very showy lilylike blossoms, natives of India.

om the leafstalks of two kinds of palms, Metroxylon Sagu, and Arenga saccharifera, of the Indian islands. It is used for making cordage. Called also ejoo.

A paste prepared from tobacco, and smoked in hookahs in Western India.

An Indian goat antelope (Nemorhedus goral), resembling the chamois.

s of Gorgoniacea, formerly very extensive, but now restricted to such species as the West Indian sea fan (Gorgonia flabellum), sea plume (G. setosa), and other allied species having a flexible, horny axis.

ygmy geese, of the genus Nettepus. They are about the size of a teal, and inhabit Africa, India, and Australia.

A very largo East Indian freshwater fish (Osphromenus gorami), extensively reared in artificial ponds in tropical countries, and highly valued as a food fish. Many unsuccessful efforts have been made to introduce it into Southern Europe. [Written also goramy.]

who has lieutenant or deputy governors under him; as, the governor general of Canada, of India.

The East Indian name of the chick-pea (Cicer arietinum) and its seeds; also, other similar seeds there used for food.

nicum jumentorum. Herd's grass, in New England Timothy, in Pennsylvania and South Redtop. Indian grass. Same as Wood grass (below). Italian rye grass, forage and hay. Lolium Italicum. Johnson grass, grazing aud hay. South and Southwest. Sorghum Halepense. Kentucky blue grass, pasture. Poa pratensis. Lyme grass, coarse…

een dragon (Bot.), a North American herbaceous plant (Arisæma Dracontium), resembling the Indian turnip; -- called also dragon root. -- Green earth (Min.), a variety of glauconite, found in cavities in amygdaloid and other eruptive rock, and used as a pigment by artists; -- called also mountain green. -- Green ebony.…

An Anglo-Indian name for a person just arrived from Europe. H. Kingsley.

- Ground room, a room on the ground floor; a lower room. Tatler. -- Ground sea, the West Indian name for a swell of the ocean, which occurs in calm weather and without obvious cause, breaking on the shore in heavy roaring billows; -- called also rollers, and in Jamaica, the North sea. -- Ground sill. See Ground plate…

A West Indian name for several kinds of palm. See Macaw tree, under Macaw. [Written also grigri palm.]

One of the mixed-blood (Spanish-Indian) inhabitants of the pampas of South America; a mestizo.

[Mahratta gaekwar, prop., a cowherd.] The title of the sovereign of Guzerat, in Western India; -- generally called the Guicowar of Baroda, which is the capital of the country.