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" Left-footed " — [Old-fashioned Muslims start on a journey, or cross 

 the threshold of their houses, with the right foot first. A horse that 

 enters a ford or crosses the threshold of its stable with the " left " 

 foot first is an unlucky animal and is styled by some chap-dast or 

 " left-footed." The proper signification, however, of chap-dast is 

 " having the off-fore white " (unlucky), but vide under Stocking]. 



Leg — hath, Hindi, and dast, P., and yad, Ar., fore-leg : pd,on, H., hind- 

 leg, and ^a, P., and rijl, Ar. (ditto) : Jcanidn-pd, adj., lit. "bow- 

 legged," is applied to a horse with the proper curve in the hind-leg ; 

 straight-dropped hind-legs were not admired nor very sickle-hocks. 

 Murgh-pd, adj., lit. " cock-legged," that is, with straight-dropped 

 hind-legs ; a defect according to old authors : probably the old- 

 fashioned swordsmen, who used thorn bits and chdr-jdma or felts 

 instead of saddles, found that the slightly sickle-houghed horses 

 jumped off quicker : the term murgh-pd is sometimes, but incor- 

 rectly, applied to a horse with upright pasterns. For Swelled- legs 

 vide Lymphangitis. 



Lentil — masur, f., H., the edible lentil ; a kind of ddl. 



Leopard-spotted — vide Spotted. 



Leprosy — haras, the white spotted leprosy ; pes. 



LiaHT-MOUTHED — ghore ha munh narm hai. 



Lime — chund, m., H. 



Linseed — alsl and im: als^ Ted tel (linseed oil; in the bazars til or 

 Sesamum oil is often sold as linseed oil) : vide Oilcake. 



Lip — honth, m., H. 



Lip-strap — hahddwri. 



" List " — sell. 



Litter — lid, f., H. (prop., horse-dung) : [khdd, f., H., manure, in fields]. 



Liver — kalejl, f., H. (of animals) ; kalejd (of man). 



Livery Stables — argard, m., H. (also a riding-school, and a cab-stand). 



Locust — tiddi or tiddl, f., H. : malakh. m., P. (locusts are in some parts 

 of India and in Arabia given to horses and cattle). 



Loins — kamar, f., P. 



LoNG-wiNDED — dur-dam. 



Lope — gurg-davl, P., obs. (lit. "wolf-ran"). 



Lop-eared — pareshdn-gosh, lit. " scatter-eared." 



Lunge, to — Iambi rassi se chakkar dend : kdwdk derm. 



Lungs — -phephrd, m., H. 



Lymphangitis — zahr-hdd, lymphangitis, oedema, anasarca, and sometimes 

 erysipelas, j. v. 



M 



Madne ss — diwdnagl. 



Maggots — klre, pi. of klrd, any insect or small crawling thing. 



Maize — vide Indian corn. 



Make much of, to — dildsa dend; thdpi dend. 



