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APPENDIX 



Staling — salas-ul-hawl, Ax., subs., and salis-ul-bawl, adj., diabetes or 

 profusing staling. 



Stall — vide Standing-. 



Stallion — sand, stallion horse, but specially a bull ; (rand Jed sand = 

 " a widow's ball ") : ghorl par ghord ddlnd, to put a mare to the 

 stallion. 



Standing — thdn, m., H. (also stall) ; mutdli, that portion of the standing 

 defiled by the urine. 



Star — sitdra, m.. P., H., a star small enough to be concealed by the 

 thumb-tip: Hpal, m., Hindi (lit. "a dot,") a star too large to be 

 covered by the thumb-tip : qiirhak, Ar., a star up to the size of a 

 dirham (say a shilling) ; ghurrah, Ar., if larger than a qurhah ; 

 also, however, a general term : vide Blaze. 



■'Starred" — sitdra-peshdal, adj., " .^ji'i^Zra-foreheaded," vide supra: 

 aqrah, Ar., marked with qurhah, vide supra, and Blazed. 



Steam, to — vide Foment : senknd, gen. to steam, foment, heat with pads, 

 or hands warmed by the fire, or by a heated cow-pat : saug-tdb k., 

 to steam by plunging a red-hot stone in water : dhan-tdb k., ditto, 

 but with red-hot iron. 



Step, to— vide High-stepping. 



Stifle — quldba (stifle ?). 



Stirrups — rikdb, f., P., the iron : (rikdb ki) duwdl, f., H., stirrup- 

 leather : chdi'ip, f., H., the lock : ghar, m., H., a hole in the stirrup- 

 leather. 



Stocking — padani, adj., H. (lit. " the red lotus,") is applied to a horse 

 that has a marked stocking on any leg, that is, a white stocking 

 with coloured hairs in it ; not generally considered unlucky in 

 India, but deemed unlucky by the Mughals and Persians : gtil-dast, 

 adj., lit. "flower-footed," with the near-fore white; chap-dad, adj., 

 with the ofE-fore white ; (it is unlucky to have white on the off-fore) : 

 (Bangtn, however, I'everses these terms and defines gul-dast as 

 having the near-fore white) ; according to one Indian writer a 

 chap-dast horse is only unlucky if the white stocking reaches to the 

 knee or higher and if there is also no white on the forehead : arjal, 

 adj., Ar., said of a horse that has one stocking of any colour (white 

 or other colour) on a hind leg ; vex'y unlucky ; in Kindi jaiiidfit,^ ditto 

 [Z^7. messenger (dilt) of the God of Death (Jam) ; but according to 

 some a horse with a white stocking on any leg is njamdnt] : pach- 

 or pdnch-kalydn (kalydn, Hindi, =; auspicious), adj., with four 

 white stockings and a blaze : shikdl, Ar., in a horse, = having three 

 legs distinguished by the whiteness of the lower parts, which is 

 termed tahjll, and one leg free therefrom ; or having three legs 



' According to one Indian writer, who is probably wrong, jamdut was a 

 chesnut with four white stockings. 



