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148 Hihirian, to shirk orders; to shove upon others what we ought to do ourselves.

Hikayat, arabic, history, tale, story, fable. Hikayat Iskander Zulkarnain, the history of Alexander the great. (حِكَايَة)

Hikĕuh, a fish found in mountain streams; in size it is intermediate between the Kanchara and Soro, which it resembles in shape, and excellence of taste.

Hilĕud, a caterpillar.

Hilĕudĕun, having a swelling about the nails of the foot or hand. A whitlow.

Hiling, to get out of the way. Clear the road!

Hilingkĕn, to tell to get out of the way; to drive out of the way.

Hilir, down the river, with the stream, in contradistinction to Girang up the river. People among the mountains speak of the sea-board generally as Hilir. (Mal. Jav. Milir; Opposite Mudik, to go up to the higher country. Fr.)

Himi-himi, name of a short of scaly fish in the sea, of a peculiar formation.

Hina, common, mean, of low birth and manners. In Malay it is also used, and Marsden gives the example of Hina dan dina the mean and low. Hina, C. 794. deficient defective, bad, vile. Dina, C. 275, poor, indigent, needy. Ina, C. 75 mean, low. Ino, in Sandwich Isles, bad. (Skr. Hina, defective; vile, bad; abandoned. Wilson.)

Hindés-an, the small hand mill, consisting of a pair of wooden rollers revolving in opposite directions to clean cotton of the seeds. Derived from Nindĕs or Tindĕs, to press, to crush, which words are not, however, Sunda, but are Javanese and Malay, from one of whom we must thus suppose that the Sundanese learned how to clean their cotton. The cotton passes through between the rollers, but the seeds are arrested and drop in front of the machine.

Hinggu, assafoetida. Hingu, C. 792. Assafoetida.

Hingkik, the owl.

Hinis, scrapings of bambu; before bambu can be split fine, the epidermis is scraped off, and this refuse is called Hinis. The outer part of bambu, the Silicious epidermis of bambu as contradistinguished from Haté or the inside and soft part. Hinis takes a sharp edge, and is sometimes used for temporary knives, as some varieties of bambu when property sharpened will cut flesh.

Hintan, Diamond.

Hiras, to induce one's neighbours to give assistance, by making some trifling present, giving a chew of betle, or something to eat.

Hiri, or hiri-hiri, an exclamation of fear, or of frightening some other person- As oh for God's sake d'ont!

Hirian or hihirian, shirking orders, shoving what is to be done upon the shoulders of a neighbour. (See Hihirian).

Hirian, to offer for, to make overtures to buy.