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A genus of East Indian pheasants. The common species (A. giganteus) is remarkable for the great length and beauty of the wing and tail feathers of the male. The species A. Grayi inhabits Borneo.

The wild buffalo of India (Bos, or Bubalus, arni), larger than the domestic buffalo and having enormous horns.

A name in the East Indies and the Indian islands for all ardent spirits. Arrack is often distilled from a fermented mixture of rice, molasses, and palm wine of the cocoanut tree or the date palm, etc.

A west Indian plant of the genus Maranta, esp. M. arundinacea, now cultivated in many hot countries. It said that the Indians used the roots to neutralize the venom in wounds made by poisoned arrows.

spissated juice of a large umbelliferous plant (Ferula asafoetida) of Persia and the East India. It is used in medicine as an antispasmodic. [Written also assafoetida.]

Of or pertaining to Assam, a province of British India, or to its inhabitants. -- n. sing. & pl.

The sloth bear (Melursus labiatus) of India.

A rich kind of satin manufactured in India. Brande & C.

o from whom all individual atmans arise. This sense is a European excrescence on the East Indian thought.

The spotted deer (Cervus axis or Axis maculata) of India, where it is called hog deer and parrah (Moorish name).

A native nurse for children; also, a lady's maid. [India]

ic tree (Melia azedarach), common in the southern United States; -- called also, Pride of India, Pride of China, and Bead tree.

ike quadruped (Sus, or Porcus, babirussa) of the East Indies, sometimes domesticated; the Indian hog. Its upper canine teeth or tusks are large and recurved.

The ring of the fruit of several East Indian species of acacia; neb-neb. It contains gallic acid and tannin, and is used for dyeing drab.

A coarse stuff, usually of cotton, originally made in India. Also, an imitation of this fabric made for export.

A two-masted Arab or Indian trading vessel, used in Indian Ocean.

A title of respect or honor given to European officers in East Indian state papers, and colloquially, and among the natives, to distinguished officials and other important personages.

A West Indian sapotaceous tree (Bumelia retusa).

A badgerlike animal of India (Arcionyx collaris).

as not the people's blessing a balsam to thy blood Tennyson. Balsam apple (Bot.), an East Indian plant ( Momordica balsamina), of the gourd family, with red or orange-yellow cucumber-shaped fruit of the size of a walnut, used as a vulnerary, and in liniments and poultices. -- Balsam fir (Bot.), the American coniferous…