Chapter BHOOT to BIRD OF PARADISE of B by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

again it has come to be employed for distant Europe. In Sicily Il Regno is used for the interior of the island, as we use Mofussil in India. Wilayat is the usual form in Bombay.

BILAYUTEE PAWNEE, BILATEE PANEE. The adject, bilayatai or wilayati is applied specifically to a variety of exotic articles, e.g. bilayati baingan (see BRINJAUL), to the tomato, and most especially bilayati pani, ‘European water,’ the usual name for soda-water in Anglo-India.

1885.—“But look at us English,’ I urged, ‘we are ordered thousands of miles away from home, and we go without a murmur.’ ‘It is true, Khudawund,’ said Gunga Pursad, ‘but you sahebs drink English- water (soda-water), and the strength of it enables you to bear up under all fatigues and sorrows.’ His idea (adds Mr. Knighton) was that the effervescing force of the soda-water, and the strength of it which drove out the cork so violently, gave strength to the drinker of it.”—Times of India Mail, Aug. 11, 1885.

BILDÁR, s. H. from P. beldar, ‘a spade-wielder,’ an excavator or digging labourer. Term usual in the Public Works Department of Upper India for men employed in that way. 1847.—

“Ye Lyme is alle oute! Ye Masouns lounge aboute!
Ye Beldars have alle strucke, and are smoaking atte their Eese!
Ye Brickes are alle done! Ye Kyne are Skynne and Bone,
And ye Threasurour has bolted with xii thousand Rupeese!”

Ye Dreme of an Executive Engineere.

BILOOCH, BELOOCH, n.p. The name (Baluch or Biluch) applied to the race inhabiting the regions west of the Lower Indus, and S.E. of Persia, called from them Biluchistan; they were dominant in Sind till the English conquest in 1843. [Prof. Max Müller (Lectures, i. 97, note) identified the name with Skt. mlechcha, used in the sense of the Greek barbaros for a despised foreigner.]

A.D. 643.—“In the year 32 H. ’Abdulla bin ‘A’mar bin Rabi’ invaded Kirmán and took the capital Kuwáshír, so that the aid of ‘the men of Kúj and Balúj’ was solicited in vain by the Kirmánis.”—In Elliot, i. 417.

c. 1200.—“He gave with him from Kandahar and Lar, mighty Balochis, servants…with nobles of many castes, horses, elephants, men, carriages, charioteers, and chariots.”—The Poem of Chand Bardai, in Ind. Ant. i. 272.

c. 1211.—“In the desert of Khabis there was a body…of Buluchís who robbed on the highway.…These people came out and carried off all the presents and rarities in his possession.”—’Utbi, in Elliot, ii. 193.

1556.—“We proceeded to Gwadir, a trading town. The people here are called Baluj; their prince was Malik Jalaluddin, son of Malik Dinar.”—Sidi’Ali,page 73.

[c. 1590.—“This tract is inhabited by an important Baloch tribe called Kalmani.”—Ain, trans. Jarret, ii. 337.]

1613.—The Boloches are of Mahomet’s Religion. They deale much in Camels, most of them robbers.…”—N. Whittington, in Purchas, i. 485.

1648.—“Among the Machumatists next to the Pattans are the Blotias of great strength” [? Wilayati].—Van Twist, 58.

1727.—“They were lodged in a Caravanseray, when the Ballowches came with about 300 to attack them; but they had a brave warm Reception, and left four Score of their Number dead on the Spot, without the loss of one Dutch Man.”—A. Hamilton, i. 107.

1813.—Milburn calls them Bloaches (Or. Com. i. 145).

1844.—“Officers must not shoot Peacocks: if they do the Belooches will shoot officers—at least so they have threatened, and M.-G. Napier has not the slightest doubt but that they will keep their word. There are no wild peacocks in Scinde,—they are all private property and sacred birds, and no man has any right whatever to shoot them.”—Gen. Orders by Sir C. Napier.

BINKY-NABOB, s. This title occurs in documents regarding Hyder and Tippoo, e.g. in Gen. Stewart’s desp. of 8th March 1799: “Mohammed Rezza, the Binky Nabob.” [Also see Wilks, Mysoor, Madras reprint, ii. 346.] It is properly benki-nawab, from Canarese benki, ‘fire,’ and means the Commandant of the Artillery.

BIRD OF PARADISE. The name given to various beautiful birds of the family Paradiseidae, of which many species are now known, inhabiting N. Guinea and the smaller islands adjoining it. The largest species was called by Linnæus Paradisaea apoda, in allusion to the fable that these birds had no feet (the dried skins brought for sale to the Moluccas having usually none attached to them). The name