Chapter GOMUTÍ to GOOMTEE of G by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

Indou et Portugais, qui signifie des couuertures picquées de cotton.”—De la Boullaye-le-Gouz, ed. 1657, p. 539.

[1819.—“He directed him to go to his place, and take a godhra of his (a kind of old patched counterpane of shreds, which Fuqueers frequently have to lie down upon and throw over their shoulders).”—Tr. Lit. Soc. Bo. i. 113.]

GOOGUL, s. H. gugal, guggul, Skt. guggula, guggulu. The aromatic gumresin of the Balsamodendron Mukul, Hooker (Amyris agallocha, Roxb.), the mukl of the Arabs, and generally supposed to be the bdellium of the ancients. It is imported from the Beyla territory, west of Sind (see Bo. Govt. Selections (N.S.), No. xvii. p. 326).

1525.—(Prices at Cambay). “Gugall d’orumuz (the maund), 16 fedeas.”—Lembrança, 43.

1813.—“Gogul is a species of bitumen much used at Bombay and other parts of India, for painting the bottom of ships.”—Milburn, i. 137.

GOOJUR, n.p. H. Gujar, Skt. Gurjjara. The name of a great Hindu clan, very numerous in tribes and in population over nearly the whole of Northern India, from the Indus to Rohilkhand. In the Delhi territory and the Doab they were formerly notorious for thieving propensities, and are still much addicted to cattle- theft; and they are never such steady and industrious cultivators as the Jats, among whose villages they are so largely interspersed. In the Punjab they are Mahommedans. Their extensive diffusion is illustrated by their having given name to Gujarat (see GOOZERAT) as well as to Gujrat and Gujranwala in the Punjab. And during the 18th c entury a great part of Saharanpur District in the Northern Doab was also called Gujrat (see Elliot’s Races, by Beames, i. 99 seqq.).

1519.—“I n the hill-country between Nilâb and Behreh…and adjoining to the hill-country of Kashmir, are the Jats, Gujers, and many other men of similar tribes.”—Memoirs of Baber, 259.

[1785.—“The road is infested by tribes of banditti called googurs and mewatties.”—In Forbes, Or. Mem. 2nd ed. II. 426.]

GOOLAIL, s. A pellet-bow. H. gulel, probably from Skt. guda, gula, the pellet used. [It is the Arabic Kaus-al-banduk, by using which the unlucky Prince in the First Kalandar’s Tale got into trouble with the Wazir (Burton, Arab. Nights, i. 98).]

1560.—Busbeck speaks of being much annoyed with the multitude and impudence of kites at Constantinople: “ego interim cum manuali balista post columnam sto, modo hujus, modo illius caudae vel alarum, ut casus tulerit, pinnas testaceis globis verberans, donec mortifero ictu unam aut alteram percussam decutio.…“—Busbeq. Epist. iii. p. 163.

[c. 1590.—“From the general use of pellet bows which are fitted with bowstrings, sparrows are very scarce (in Kashmir).”—Ain, ed. Jarrett, ii. 351. In the original kaman-i-guroha, guroha, according to Steingass, Dict., being “a ball…ball for a cannon, balista, or cross-bow.”]

1600.—“O for a stone-bow to hit him in the eye.”—Twelfth Night, ii. 5.

1611.—

“Children will shortly take him for a wall,

And set their stone-bows in his forehead.”

Beaum. & Flet., A King and No King, V.

[1870.—“The Gooleil-bans, or pellet-bow, generally used as a weapon against crows, is capable of inflicting rather severe injuries.”—Chevers, Ind. Med. Jurisprudence, 337.]

GOOLMAUL, GOOLMOOL, s. H. gol-mal, ‘confusion, jumble’; gol-mal karna, ‘to make a mess.’

[1877.—“The boy has made such a golmol (uproar) about religion that there is a risk in having anything to do with him.”—Allardyce, City of Sunshine, ii. 106.]

[GOOMTEE, n.p. A river of the N.W.P., r ising in the Shahjahanpur District, and flowing past the cities of Lucknow and Jaunpur, and joining the Ganges between Benares and Ghazipur. The popular derivation of the name, as in the quotation, is, as if Ghumti, from H. ghumna, ‘to wind,’ in allusion to its winding