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the heads of graves uncut, and just as if lifted from the 

 quarries. I measured one 13 feet long, 2 feet wide, and 2 

 feet thick. 



Sanesh — 



A needle, the technical term applied to needles fixed in 

 a piece of wax employed to scratch the surface of the Opium 

 Poppy head to allow of the exit of the milky juice. 



Sang — ^jjj^ — a stone, anything hard. 

 Sang-dhak — i^£i\^k*^ — [limestone]. 



Sa ng-dtish — J^'J\ t^^ — [fire-stone], flint. 



Sang-chahhmdJch — ^U.s\>cL^a«. — [flint-stone]. 



Sang-i-dsla — 'a«.l» ^«- — sang-dsd, [mil] -stone]. 



Sang-i-marmar — j^^j^^^jjX^ — sang -i-mal mat, 



[marble], alabaster, or chrysolite. 

 Sang-i-n ivishta — isX^y^^^ — [inscribed, stone]. 



A name applied to a large stone covered with inscriptions 

 in the Nehal-shani pass. 



Sang-pusht — C<z:^ji.t^j^ — [stony-back], the tortoise. 



Sang-totl — [stone -covered], a tortoise. 



Sang-iutia — ^SJy'J^L^^^ — [tlie stone Tutt}']. Here a 



common term for sulphate of copper. Tutty is 



a natural salt of zinc, found in Persia. 

 Sa nl — ^^^ — steel — Sanesh — a needle. 

 Sanjid — 4X.sxi«. — sanjit, sinjad, sinjit, sinjid, 



El.eagnus hoetensis, so called whether 



indigenous or cultivated. 

 Sanhkla — '.j^SCi^ — the ordinary dirty grey Aesexic 



of the bazaars. 

 Sdo-safed — [the white polisher], the herb Gypsophila 



PANICULATA, the root-stocks of which are hekh, 



and employed as soap. Sdvldan — ^'^^.i^ — to 



polish. 

 Sapad, sabad — a basket. 

 Sapistdn — ^^Ix*m>a^ — Sebestens, the fruit of Coedia 



Myxa. 

 Sa, — 'j.^ — the head, the top. 



