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free from tahjil and one hind-leg so distiagaished ; or, according 

 to another Arab authority, having the whiteness of the tahjU 

 in one hind-leg ani one fore-leg, on opposite sides, whether the 

 whiteness be little or much ; in India, it has the latter sense only : 

 mashkid. At., a horse so distinguished ; (shakiL vide Reach, is not 

 used in Arabic) : Tiinkajjal, Ar. (from hijl, an anklet), is applied to 

 a horse with white stockings on all the legs, or on three ; i.e., on 

 two hind-legs and one fore-leg ; or on one hind-leg and two fore-le^ ; 

 or on two hind-legs only ; or on one hind-leg only ; but not on the two 

 fore-legs alone, nor on one fore-leg alone ; as hijl is an ornament, 

 a horse with both fore white, &c., is not styled muhajjal : mukajjal- 

 ul-arha\ Ar., with all four white, which according to Tweedie is in 

 Baghdad styled mukhaicwaz, " waded or passed through water, or a 

 ford " : mutlaq-ul-yadayn, Ar., with both fore white, and mutlaq-ul- 

 rijlayn, Ar., with both hind white ; lucky only if there is also 

 white in the forehead : mutlaq-ul-yasdr, Ar., with both near white; i 

 lucky only if there is also white in the forehead : mutlaq-ul-yamin, 

 Ar., both off white ;i lucky: siydh-zdnu, H., P., black up to the 

 knees ; of bay or dun : *' vide " dthon gdnth kumayt, H., under Bay, 

 and also Roan. 



Stomachic — vide Digestion. 



Stop (for Martingale, &c.) — vide Keeper. 



Strain — lachkd, m., gen. lachak, f., H. («»a) : moch, f., H. {and) : vide 

 also Sprain. 



Strain, to — kdnkhnd, in colic. 



Strangles — khobak. 



Strap — tasma, m., P. 



Straw — puwdl. f., H. ; also pydl : tinkd, m., H., a single straw, a blade of 

 grass, &c., a frond. 



Stringhalt — jhunakhdd, that form is which the leg is raised with a jerk 

 at each step : suranhdd or samel, that form in which the leg is 

 dragged behind. 



Stumble, to — thoha/r khdnd, H. gen., but fhokar lend, specially for 

 horses : sikandari, subs., " stumbling " (in Persian generally gives 

 the idea of falling). 



Sugar — gur, raw or coarse sugar (the produce of the first inspissation of 

 the juice of the sugar-cane) : khdnd, coarse sugar (sugar clarified 

 and the syrup then gradually boiled down to a hard consistence) : 

 surkh shakar (ditto in the Pan jab; Watt, S 30). 



Sugar-cane — ukh, f., H. (thin) ; gannd, m., H. (thick) : paunddy m., H. 

 (also a variety). 



' These are the meanings of these terms in India. Some Arabs, however, main- 

 tain that inutlaq means dark, t.c, of the Inxiy colour, and that mutlaq-ul-yamln 

 means having the otf-fore dark and the other three white. 



