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APPENDIX 



Staling — salas-ul-bawl, Ar., subs., and salis-ul-hawl, adj., diabetes or 

 profusing staling. 



Stall — vide Standing. 



Stallion — sand, stallion horse, but specially a bull ; (rand led sand = 

 " a widow's ball ") : ghori 'par ghord ddlnd, to put a mare to the 

 stallion. 



Standing — than, m., H. (also stall) ; mutdli, that portion of the standing 

 defiled by the urine. 



Star — sitdra, m., P., H., a star small enough to be concealed by the 

 thumb-tip : fipal, m., Hindi (lit. " a dot,") a star too large to be 

 covered by the thumb-tip : qurhah, Ar., a star up to the size of a 

 dirham (say a shilling) ; ghurrah, Ar., if larger than a qurhah ; 

 also, however, a general term : vide Blaze. 



"Stabbed" — sitdra-peshdnl, adj., " siYara-foreheaded," vide supra: 

 aqrah, Ar., marked with qurhah, vide supra, and Blazed. 



Steam, to — vide Foment : s&nknd, gen. to steam, foment, heat withpads, 

 or hands warmed by the fire, or by a heated cow-pat : sang-tdh k., 

 to steam by plunging a red-hot stone in water: dhan-tdb k., ditto, 

 but with red-hot iron. 



Step, to — vide High-stepping. 



Stifle— ^M^afta (stifle ?). 



Stirrups — rtkdb, f., P., the iron : (rtkdb ki) duwdl, f., H., stirrup- 

 leather : chdiip, f., H., the lock : ghar, m., H., a hole in the stirrup- 

 leather. 



Stocking— pcM^am, adj., H. (lii. " the red lotus,") is applied to a horse 

 that has a marked stocking on any leg, that is, a white stocking 

 with coloured hairs in it ; not generally considered unlucky in 

 India, but deemed unlucky by the Mughals and Persians : gul-dast, 

 adj., lit. "flower-footed," with the near-fore white; chap-dast, adj., 

 with the off-fore white ; (it is unlucky to have white on the off'-fore) : 

 (Bangin, however, reverses these terms and defines gul-dast as 

 having the near-fore white) ; according to one Indian writer a 

 chap-dast horse is only unlucky if the white stocking reaches to the 

 knee or higher and if there is also no white on the forehead : arjal, 

 adj., Ar., said of a horse that has one stocking of any colour (white 

 or other colour) on a hind leg ; very unlucky ; in Kindij amdut,^ ditto 

 [Ut. messenger (diet) of the God of Death (Jam) ; but according to 

 some a horse with a white stocking on any leg is a jatndut'] : pach- 

 or pdnch-kalydn (kalydn, Hindi, = auspicious), adj., with four 

 white stockings and a blaze : shikdl, Ar., in a horse, = having three 

 legs distinguished by the whiteness of the lower parts, which is 

 termed tahjil, and one leg free therefrom ; or having three legs 



* According to one Indian writer, who is probably wrong, jamdilt was a 

 chesnut with four white stockings. 



