Amadavat :: Amadavat (n.) The strawberry finch, a small Indian song bird (Estrelda amandava), commonly caged and kept for fighting. The female is olive brown; the male, in summer, mostly crimson; -- called also red waxbill..

Amadou :: Amadou (n.) A spongy, combustible substance, prepared from fungus (Boletus and Polyporus) which grows on old trees; German tinder; punk. It has been employed as a styptic by surgeons, but its common use is as tinder, for which purpose it is prepared by soaking it in a strong solution of niter..

Chamade :: Chamade (n.) A signal made for a parley by beat of a drum.

Hamadryad :: Hamadryad (n.) A tree nymph whose life ended with that of the particular tree, usually an oak, which had been her abode..

Hamadryad :: Hamadryad (n.) A large venomous East Indian snake (Orhiophagus bungarus), allied to the cobras..

Hamadryades :: Hamadryades (pl. ) of Hamadrya.

Hamadryads :: Hamadryads (pl. ) of Hamadrya.

Hamadryas :: Hamadryas (n.) The sacred baboon of Egypt (Cynocephalus Hamadryas).

Jamadar :: Jamadar (n.) Same as Jemidar.

Ramadan :: Ramadan (n.) The ninth Mohammedan month.

Ramadan :: Ramadan (n.) The great annual fast of the Mohammedans, kept during daylight through the ninth month..

Rhamadan :: Rhamadan (n.) See Ramadan.

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