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A Brazilian tribe of Indians, noted for their use of poisons; - - also called Aymborés.

all flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen. Jer. iv. 29. Bowman's root. (Bot.) See Indian physic, under Indian.

s. -- Bowstring hemp (Bot.), the tenacious fiber of the Sanseviera Zeylanica, growing in India and Africa, from which bowstrings are made. Balfour.

otal caste among the Hindoos. Brahman bull (Zoöl.), the male of a variety of the zebu, or Indian ox, considered sacred by the Hindoos.

Specifically, an Indian warrior.

A rough-haired East Indian variety of the greyhound.

One of the Eurylaimidæ, a family of East Indian passerine birds.

A painting all of one color, as a sepia painting, or an India painting.

ough she smelt brown bread and garlic." Shak. (b) Dark colored bread made of rye meal and Indian meal, or of wheat and rye or Indian; rye and Indian bread. [U.S.] -- Brown coal, wood coal. See Lignite. -- Brown hematite or Brown iron ore (Min.), the hydrous iron oxide, limonite, which has a brown streak. See Limonite.…

The wild dog of northern India (Cuon primævus), supposed by some to be an ancestral species of the domestic dog.

A male Indian or negro. [Colloq. U.S.]

as a religion by the greater part of the inhabitants of Central and Eastern Asia and the Indian Islands. Buddha's teaching is believed to have been atheistic; yet it was characterized by elevated humanity and morality. It presents release from existence (a beatific enfranchisement, Nirvâna) as the greatest good. Buddh…

A species of the genus Bos or Bubalus (B. bubalus), originally from India, but now found in most of the warmer countries of the eastern continent. It is larger and less docile than the common ox, and is fond of marshy places and rivers.

An East Indian insectivorous mammal (Gymnura Rafflesii), somewhat like a rat in appearance, but allied to the hedgehog.

of Mexico, which has very large tuberous and farinaceous rootstocks, formerly used by the Indians for a sort of bread, and by the negroes as an ingredient in making beer; -- called also bamboo brier and China brier.

A West Indian fish (Scarus Croicensis).

The name of several West Indian trees of the order Sapotaceæ, as Dipholis nigra and species of Sapota and Mimusops. Most of them yield a substance closely resembling gutta-percha.

A purse or bag in which to carry or measure diamonds, etc. [India] Macaulay.

A small marine Asiatic fish (Saurus ophidon) used in India as a relish; -- called also Bombay duck.

An embankment against inundation. [India] S. Wells Williams.