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| a large, relatively self-contained landmass forming a subdivision of a continent |
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| an Indo-European, Indic language, in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India. |
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| a domed circular temple at Rome, erected a.d. 120–124 by Hadrian, used as a church since a.d. 609. |
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| a native soldier, usually an infantryman, in the service of Europeans, esp. of the British. |
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| to combine in abstaining from, or preventing dealings with, as a means of intimidation or coercion |
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| a division into or distribution in portions or shares. |
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| the belief that the soul, upon death of the body, comes back to earth in another body or form. |
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| essential quality or character, as of the cosmos or one's own nature. |
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| action, seen as bringing upon oneself inevitable results, good or bad, either in this life or in a reincarnation: in Hinduism one of the means of reaching Brahman. |
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| an endogamous and hereditary social group limited to persons of the same rank, occupation, economic position, etc., and having mores distinguishing it from other such groups |
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| the production, for sale, of goods at home, as the making of handicrafts by rural families. |
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| a strong, coarse fiber used for making burlap, gunny, cordage, etc., obtained from two East Indian plants, Corchorus capsularis and C. olitorius, of the linden family. |
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| an abnormal rise in the level of the sea along a coast caused by the onshore winds of a severe cyclone. |
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| the relation of a strong state toward a weaker state or territory that it protects and partly controls. |
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| a very common mineral, soft native carbon, occurring in black to dark-gray foliated masses, with metallic luster and greasy feel: used for pencil leads, as a lubricant, and for making crucibles and other refractories; plumbago; black lead. |
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