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Sacer. [There is a Sacre and a Sacret. And theis be for a 

 Knyght.— Boke of Albans, p. 53] : vide Saker. 



Sacret, (male of Saker), vide Saker. 



Sails, (wings of a hawk), vide Wing. 



Sail, to, j^i—f ^ »& Ij4 jd \) JIj bal ra dar hava nigah dashtan, Mod. 

 Pers., (opposed to c«j p*j>. f; J^ to beat the wings, vide 

 Bert). 



fjv* chargJL Hindu., and j-ja. charkh amongst Pathans: 



£j^ L ^t chltal chargk, Panj. (in Kapurthala applied to 

 the variety with white spots on its back ; vide Plumage) : 

 cAf ^ balaban. Mod. Pers., (Passage Saker) ; and £ ; a. charkh, 

 Mod. Pers., eyess : &j ^0, Ind. Pers. MS. (said to a 

 kind of char gh ; other varieties are stated to be called 

 ^Ui3 and^;f): &*fe» Ind. Pers. MS. (said to be a kind of 

 chargk): j£)W\ italgu or >fl&l italgu, T. : is^j* jurudi , Mod. 



M 



Pers., (said to be a small species of Saker) ; other varieties 

 are <c;«* eibyb baldban-i badri , ^J^, jibali, vJuif , /a/?/, etc.: 2 



«. ft* 



S^Ji as-saqr, Ar. MS. : ^!j>^ akyupyu* 9 in one Ar. MS. said 



/ 



to be the male Saker, but in another to be the Merlin, 

 bmmoniac. i^I£*j naushadar. Hind. 



M M 



^jj^acu oryi 



,yj 



#« 



*u 



-grouse) : ;'^ sJ±*» sang* 

 ta, Ar., collec. of »Lbi ^atfaJ (Pin-tailed) : 

 T. (Pin-tailed) : &**> t^ siyah-sina, Mod. 

 :-breast " ; the Imperial Sand-grouse, Pie- 

 *jSj& baqir qara, T. (and *j* <jy^) (ditto). 



Scale, *j)y 



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Scare-crow, &y*<> dkoka, Hindu.; ^ji* ma-tars, Mod. Pers. 

 Score [twenty yards ; a common term in ancient archery]. 



Scouring, vide Purge. 



Screen-perch, [not used by Easterns]. 



Seamed [according to Stonehenge the opposite of insenmed 

 or being in ■ * good condition ' ' : vide Enseam]. 



. As. Soc. Beng , vol. iii , No. 3, 1907. 

 anslation of the Baz-Numa-yi Naeiri, pp. 49 — 5 



