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One of a race of a brown or copper complexion in the Malay Peninsula and the western islands of the Indian Archipelago.

Of or pertaining to the Malays or their country. -- n.

The name given to one the cultivated Dravidian languages, closely related to the Tamil. Yule.

Of or pertaining to the Himalayas, the great mountain chain in Hindostan.

In a frenzied and reckless. To run amuck, to rush out in a state of frenzy, as the Malays sometimes do under the influence of "bhang," and attack every one that comes in the way; to assail recklessly and indiscriminately. Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet. Pope.…

or American commerce, being in great request by the Chinese. Called also Borneo camphor, Malay camphor, and camphol.

The Malay or Polynesian race; -- loosely so called.

The Malayan sun bear.

The wild Himalayan, or blue, sheep (Ovis burrhel).

btained from a tree (Dryobalanops camphora) growing in Sumatra and Borneo; -- called also Malay camphor, camphor of Borneo, or borneol. See Borneol.

ere from the soft wool found beneath the hair of the goats of Cashmere, Thibet, and the Himalayas. Some cashmere, of fine quality, is richly embroidered for sale to Europeans.

A dagger or short sword used by the Malays, commonly having a serpentine blade. [Written also crease and kris.] From a Malayan creese to a sailor's jackknife. Julian Hawthorne.

lorida, etc.; and especially the great talipot tree (Corypha umbraculifera) of Ceylon and Malaya. The leaves of the latter are often eighteen feet long and fourteen wide, and are used for umbrellas, tents, and roofs. When cut up, they are used for books and manuscripts.

A concrete juice produced by various trees found in the Malayan archipelago, especially by the Isonandra, or Dichopsis, Gutta. It becomes soft, and unpressible at the tamperature of boiling water, and, on cooling, retains its new shape. It dissolves in oils and ethers, but not in water. In many of its properties it res…

rthern India in the west to Formosa in the east and from Central Asia in the north to the Malay Peninsula in the south.

A member of a race forming the chief pre-Malay population of the Malay Archipelago, and probably sprung from a mixture of Polynesian and Mongoloid immigrants. According to Keane, the autochthonous Negritos were largely expelled by the Caucasian Polynesians, themselves followed by Mongoloid peoples of Indo-Chinese affin…

One of the islands of the Malay Archipelago belonging to the Netherlands.

The Himalayan now partridge.

prominent stem, and with huge masts in one piece, used by the Chinese, Japanese, Siamese, Malays, etc., in navigating their waters.

A Malay dagger. See Creese.