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VOCABULARY. 
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<air^T, adj. salt. 
(*o ak) adv. bought, purchased, 
a threshing-floor, 
chalk, 
a hare. 
adj. empty ; Prov. 
^T^5T *rfit ^ *J, a man does not 
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lift an empty hand to his mouth. 
a male servant; Prov . 
3*1 ^fTT, 
with other thieves he is a thief, 
but in the presence of the watch¬ 
man, he is simply a servant. 
v. n. to fall, to fall down, to 
stumble. The usual word for “ to 
fall,” in JKaithili with or with¬ 
out or xpg\, e. g ., 
“ to fall down” = the Hindi fJH! 
XT^-cTT. The Past Part, is used 
* 
idiomatically in the phrase 
it is the afternoon. 
?3^cr, igreq, a fall, the act of falling; 
Prov. ^ 
a man is not put to shame by 
falling, but by being laughed at. 
^t, a kind of coarse muslin. 
v. a. to cause to fall, to knock 
down : to toss about : to pitch a 
tent, {Sal. X), 
( id - 18 )‘ 
v. a. Past Part. ^T^T, is 
rare and incorrect ; 1 retro, eond. 
IlirTst : to eat; to receive (punish¬ 
ment, abuse, &c.) ; to enjoy. 
(obi. the act of eating. 
^131, fit to eat. 
^T^T, an eater. 
Past Part, ofw, eaten. 
WNt or ft, a basket. 
1 *=rp5pf, a net for holding mangos or 
other fruit. 
, a beggar, 
lack, want, 
a bed, a couch. 
^TcFt, a staircase. 
WrfT, a ditch, a moat. 
prep, for the sake of. 
*3TfV, a pit, a ditch ; cf. ^T. 
a heavy eater. 
*KT»T, a heap ; often used in the sense 
of the indefinite article , e. g. (P. 
49) ^T*T, they made a 
committee. 
*HT*TTcr^rreT, a house- 
search : the searching of the 
house of a suspected thief by the 
police. 
*UTfa, an excavation, a mine. 
*sTPT, a cover: a tenure of land in 
which rent is paid in money. 
<anrfc, half a broken pot, used as a 
platter for eating from, or for 
parching grain. 
wftrf^T, (^jhL) a mistress. 
^T^t, a pillar, a post. 
(oblique verbal noun 3rd form 
of ^T) the act of eating ; Prov. 
W? 5 ! *§T*I 3 
the Miya' is a fool, he gobbles 
goat-flesh like a goblin. 
*sfT9T (F. 69), (u° li ), special: 
chief, preeminent. 
fi^PtHU, a fox; Prov. 
% small foxes have 
thick tails. 
(SJcr. Pr. f^TTO) a 
vegetable pottage. 
f^T3, v. a. to spread, to extend ; 
