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Ndshpdti — ^"U.i'J — ndspdtl — the common pear, 



the fruit of Pyrus communis, of ordinary 



quality. 

 Nashuk-hardan — ^dJ3y^i — to snutf, to inhale 



snuff. 

 Nashwdr — J^y^ — naswdr — in Arabic means the 



food which a ruminating animal keeps in its 



mouth to chew. Snuff. 

 Nashicdrl, naswdrl — the name for the small 



specimens of the Bottle-gourd, Lagenaria 



VULGARIS, fruit, employed as bottles to hold 



snuff. 

 Ndspdl — ^'ju^'J — the rind of the Pomegranate, Punica 



Graxatum. 

 Nastar — -yi^'i — nastaran — ^^j^mJ — a Narcissus, or 



the white rose of India, Rosa moschata, 

 Ndurinj, for durinj, duranj, the Orange, Citrus 



AURANTIUM. 



Nectarine, a form of the Peach, Prunus persica, 



var. 

 Needles, sanesh 



These are fixed iu wax, and are employed in scratching 

 the surface of the seed-vessels of the Opium Poppy, Pap aver 

 SOMNIFERUM, to permit of the escape of the milky juice, which 

 upon becoming inspissated is Opium. 



Nerium odorum, .'ioland. Apocynace^. 



The Oleander, khar-zahra ; in Baluchistan, jaur. By no 

 means an uncommon shrub in the Tamakix thickets of 

 Baluchistan, near water. Is extremely poisonous to camels, 

 as also to donkeys ; the former never learn to avoid it, the 

 latter do. It is not employed as fuel, as the natives assert 

 the smoke from the fuel to be poisonous to those sitting 

 round the fire. Except the form cultivated in gardens, I 

 did not collect or see the shrub north of Baluchistan. 



New — Nao, no, nu, tdza. 



