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vifsr, a sound. 
a cotton-carder; Prov. 
**fsTOT, <T«T the father a 
-J C\ J 
cotton-carder, the son a mur¬ 
derer. 
^3T, a road, embankment. 
'fcR 5 !', the pole of a carriage. 
WT, ^^lf, smoke. 
knavery: scoundrelly beha- 
viour. 
■\r3f, Interjection of Contempt. 
Shame ! 
iNlT*r, (loc. religious con¬ 
templation. 
i?«T, a milch cow. 
V, see (1). 
firmness : patience, V?*! or 
§ tr, to have patience, 
*rfi his patience did not 
remain, he lost patience. 
see ^ (1). 
ft, v. a. to wash : ’sft^T well 
washed ; Prov. $R^T *TR^ inft 
xfpafjT ^TR the sheep 
washed (for sale) is about to fall 
into the slough, i. e., there’s 
many a slip between the cup and 
the lip. 
TfNfir, the art of washing. 
adj. wicked, foolish. 
a bag : a vessel, receptacle ; 
Prov. 7R3T ; ®TT«T, 
j 7 • VJ J 
only the vessel knows the pain 
(or weight) of the molasses : i. e., 
only he who suffers knows the 
pain. 
a loin cloth, a “ dhotie.” 
Vfa, a pot-belly. 
*fh**T, adj. pot-bellied. 
a washerman ; washermen are 
notorious foi destroying things 
given them to wash ; hence the 
Prov. 'sfrto ^rft 
nothing belonging to a washer¬ 
man’s father is ever torn by him 
i. e., charity begins at home, 
a Hag, a banner, = ^T^T. 
«T, adv. not. 
cRR, •RffR, a lunar mansion : a star. 
»RnR«T 5 t, a small nose-orna- 
j <\ 
ment. 
a finger or toe-nail: 
or o^rT, a scratch. 
cT^R, a place for the sale of horses 
or cattle, a cattle-market ; Prov. 
irfT snarer the horse is 
kept at home, while it is being 
sold in the market, i. e., selling a 
pig in a poke. 
♦RT, a town, a city. 
a waist rag or cloth ; Prov . 
JTjff *§?, he has only a 
rag over his rear, and he calls 
himself Fatih Khan, a beggar 
with the airs of a king. 
(Pent. an actor, 
a dancer. 
a lunar mansion, = •RffT. 
*mf<, (J&) , vision, gaze. ♦Tolft 
see f*sRR. 
(fern. •rf^f*R|T) a nat; 
nats are a tribe of wandering 
gipsies, or gymnasts and thieves 
