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Water-rail, ^}y ^ ^ man-man-tori (in Chach Hazara). 

 Weather, to, Lu«wU^aIj bahir bandhna, Hindu, (to tie outside) : 



,^i~£j v li»f jj bar-i aftabnishastan, intr. Mod. Pers. = vj^'f 



eti~^i, vulg. (to sit in the sun). 



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vulg. (to sit in the sun). Vide Bask. [Weathering, 



is when you set your Hawk abroad to take the aire, either 

 by day or night, in the frost, or in the sunne, or at any 

 other season. — Latham.] 



Weaver- bird, Lw baya, Hindu. 

 Web (of feather), vide Shaft. 

 Weevil, ^ ghun, Hindi: vide Ant. 



White, ^ifc kafuri, Mod. Pers. and Ind. MSS. (lit. "camphor- 

 coloured," i.e., white, a term applied to a certain white 

 varieties of goshawk, etc. ; ^\ J/ laziqi ~ 



MSS. ( u white" ; derived from u*)) J^ gul-iraziqi a species 

 of jasmine, the bel phul of the Hindus ; a term similar to 

 kafuri) . 



White-ant, vide Ant. 



White-hawk, [apparently] a hawk after the first moult, when she 

 is no longer a Red-hawk or a Sore-hawk; vide Latham, 

 interviewed]. 



Widgeon, *^)y° morcha (in Chach Hazara). 



Wild, ^1*^+6 sahra^i and LS ^^ dashti, Mod. Pers.: vide al 



Flighty. 



Wind, vide Up- wind. 



Wind, sink the, [To skim near the ground to a certain distance 

 in order to catch the wind and rise up-vv ind with it; vidr 

 Corballis' Forty-Five Years of Sport, pp. 4 and 5]. 



Wind, to cheat the, (to fly low to the ground to escape the fori 



of the wind by taking advantage of cover) 



Wing, ^j** surathi, Panj. ; *& kunda, Panj. : 

 Pers. ; ji pw% Hindu, and Pers. (also = feathe 

 (also = flight-feather) : &5 daina, in Behar). 



Wing-tied, vide Flight. 



Wisp, (of snipe = walk) ; vide Snipe. 



Wood-cock, *Jy) iy* muryh-i ztrak, Mod. Pers. (I 



J^ 



Wood-cock): \U**£> rmk-daraz 



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In early English plays a wood-cock is a simpleton. 



