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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
[May, 1924
Nati: a dance ; Kulu : Gloss, I, p. 424.
Nau-dorl: doris' or (red) oords, plaited into the hair, four on each side of the head and converging into a 9th thick dord which harige down the back : Ch., 142.
Nau-girl: worship of the nine plandis ;=reva-dhai: B., 109. Neodhart: = Neot&: Sirmûr, 29. Neort: a rope: B., 110. Neoza : the edible pine nut: ss., Bashahr, 49.
Newa : an image of a man who has died childless (sonless ?) worn round the neck by his heir or heirs, if of metal, and set up in a trough, if of stone;= Pap, Ooh, Diai, and in Kanawar Guroh ach: SS. Bashahr, 33. .
Newal : warm low-lying land in the Sutlej valley : SS. Bashahr, 46, and Jubbal, 16.
Niâmar : a son born to her former husband by a woman after her remarriage : Comp., 113: Cf., Gadhelra and Gelar.
Niårtan : the cleaner of a granary and grain : Suket, 38. Nich: ? adj., low (caste), Simla Hills : Gloss., I, p. 456. Nigahar: fr. nirl, a kind of grass and gdhar, pasture; a high mountain pasture: Ch., 277. Niggi : Daphne cannabina : Ch., 339. Nihår : Nir&n, Nirnih ar, breakfast;=hanjhall or chhawela : B., 192. Nihari : a light meal taken at sunrise: Suket, 27. Nilgur: = mondi, Lophophorus impeyanus : Ch., 36. Nimosam : twilight: Ch., 204. Nindia : backbiting (?): Gloss., I, p. 345. Nira : a kind of grass': Ch., 277. Niwala : animal sacrifice, a common feature in the worship of Shiva : Ch., 181 Niyah : the Spring crop. Mandi, 62: (Spelf niyat on'p. 42.) Nubart: the morning meal : Ch., 204.
Obar : khadt, manured but not irrigated; ghair.khddl, neither irrigated nor manured: Sirmûr, App. I.
Obti : the light half of a month ; Kulu: Gloss., 1, p. 432. Obera : a cattle-shed, separate from the house. Sirmûr, 59: Cf., Obra in III, Och: Newa, q.v. Odhrů : an official, now abolished, superior to the karddr: Ch., 265. Odf : a measure of capacity used for grain ; Hazara. Ogal : buckwheat, Fagopyrum poligonum : SS. Bashahr, 48. Oghår: a first ploughing : Ch., 221.
Ogla : Fagopyrum poligonum, buckwheat generally eaten on fast days and called phaludr; other varieties are Kathu or Phaphra (F. esculentum) and Dhanphari : Simle, S. R., xli.
Ogra: a lower storey: SS., Basbahr, 43. 01: a hole in the ground, Simla Hills; cf. tu, rat's hole, Kulu Dialect of Hindi,
p. 97.
Oniyirt : the opening from a challa into a field ; - Muniari: Ch., 224; Khol. Orde : evil: Ch., 138. Orthan: pl., nurseries : Ch., 233 : Cf., Orf in III, Otar: unirrigated land : Ch., 220. Od : land rugged or uneven: Ch., 220.
(To be continued.)