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Milk — slilr ; Arabic, /a6a?i, labdn,lubdn ; see cream, 

 curdled-milk, cheese, whey, butter, butter-milk, 

 oxygal. 



MiLK-HEKB, or any pLant that exudes a milky juice, 

 ashar, ashlr, gid-shlr, sJur-ag, shir-gkl, shir -go. 



Mill — flour-mill, dsld; hand-mill, dast-dsld; donkey- 

 mill, khar-ds (oil-mill) ; water-mill, dh-dsid ; 

 w^iud-mill, dsld-bdd ; mill-stone, sang-i-dsld. 



Millet — the great, or greater Millet, Sorghum 

 vuLGARE. The spiked Millet, Pennisetum 

 SPICATUM ; Italian Millet, Setaria italica ; 

 Common Millet, Paxicum miliaceum. 



Minerals — Jcdnl. See Salts ; see Metals ; see 

 Alabaster, Clay, Gypsum, Flint, Limestone, 

 Lapis-lazuli, Marble, Mica, Sandstone. 



Mineral Pitch, or Oil — mumldl, momldl — a natural 

 production obtained from the Kohistan range. 



Mirabilis Jalapa, Linn. Nyctagine^. 



The Marvel of Peru. The plant, abcls ; the flowers, gid-lCd- 

 abdsi, gul-i-abds ; the root, bekh-i-gul-i-ahds, resha-i-gul. An 

 extremely common flower cultivated in all gardens, much 

 admired for the rose colour of its flowers; the roots, leaves, 

 and seeds are employed in medicine. The rose-red colour 

 of the flowers, ahdsi {rang). 



Mis — LT-* — copper. 



Misar — ^xa^ — -Egypt. 



Misri, misarl — <Sj.^^ — Egyptian. 



Applied to certain products that are supposed to 

 come from Egypt ; as, for instance, sdlah-misri, the tubers of 

 an Orchis (sdlab) that are imported from Egypt. In India 

 the term misi'l is correctly applied to a sugar-candy which 

 originally was imported into Bombay from Egypt, and I 

 believe the Parsees still import it from thence. Amongst 

 Europeans, sugar that is not candied often goes by the name 

 misrl, and the meaning attached to the name now is sugar, 

 and sweetness, rather than that it is the produce of a certain 

 country from whence it has been imported. 



