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Gab — ^ — gcq^ — l_^ — thick, large, gross, dense. 

 Gah-chlr, gap-chlr, gab-sJur, gap-shir — [thickened 

 milk]. Manna, and the plant producing it, 



COTONEASTER NUMMULAEIA. 



Ga-hlna — [the grass gum]. A form of the gum 

 Tragacanth, or the shrub yielding it, Astragalus 

 HERATENSis, and other species. Gablna and 

 haglna in the Kuram Valley meant honey. 



GacJi — J, — Gypsum ; Plaster of Paris. 



GCd — ^l^ — a red variety of the Millet, Paxicu^i 



MILIACEUM. 



Galbanum — the gum-resin of Ferula galbaxiflua. 

 Galls — 



The galls that form on the leaves of Pistacia vera, hoz-ganj ; 

 these are employed in dyeing silks, for which purpose they are 

 largely exported from the Badghis to Persia, Afghanistan 

 proper, and in smaller quantities to India ; some even to 

 Turkistan. Hcchl, kechl, jing-jing-bclnu are the galled pods 

 of Prosopis Stephaniana ; they are employed as a dye stuff, 

 as well as being used in dyeing and tanning, chiefly locally, 

 but are also exported through Persia to India. Mdjii, vidzu, 

 are either the galls of Tamaeix gallica, which are scarcely 

 used, and not exported, or are the galls of a species of Oak, 

 QuERCUS, that is said to grow in Persia ; these are largely 

 imported from Persia for dyeing and tanning. Kisa is a 

 very prominent gall that occurs on the leaves of an Elm, 

 Ulmus species, but which is not employed. The presence of 

 a flat gall following the curve of the leaves of Pistacia Tere- 

 BINTHUS, var. MUTICA, obtains for that leaf its name gosh- 

 wdra [like the ear]. 



Gand — s,li — anything foetid, a bad smell, a testicle. 

 Gaiida — s^xi^ — foetid, stinking, a ball of anything. 

 Ganda-flroza — sj^^jJjsJJ^ — [the rare scented]. The 



gum-resin Olibanum, Boswellia species ; or 



Turpentine. 

 Gandam — -»xJl^ — ganam — Wheat, Triticum vul- 



gare. 



