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The Bengalee: or, Sketches of society and manners in the East choose

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[Ind] [H.B. Henderson] Bengalee 146: When he inspects his indigo fields, he takes a dékh at the plant, or chuls over the kates: he calls Alport his old doost; and conversing with his good lady, a little bat-cheet with the beebee-sahib!
at chull, v.
[Ind] [H.B. Henderson] Bengalee 146: When he inspects his indigo fields, he takes a dékh at the plant, or chuls over the kates.
at deck, n.2
[Ind] [H.B. Henderson] Bengalee 260: Half bruised to death, confounded by the fall, / Ned, like a tortoise from it’sbatter’d shell, / Crept forth, ‘midst louder laughter; whilst a call / Of ‘Griff! ho Griff!’ re-echoed like the yell / Of foul tormentors, in some modern hell.
at griffin, n.1
[Ind] [H.B. Henderson] Bengalee 147: [H]e was burra khoosee that the Judge sahib had been juwabed by the young spinster at the Doctor’s.
at juwab, v.
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