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▪ I. ‖ hing|hɪŋ|
Also 6 hinge, 7 hingh.
[Hindī hīng:—Skr. hingu.]
The drug asafetida.
1586R. Fitch in Hakluyt Voy. (1599) II. 252 One hundred and fourescore boates laden with Salt, Opium, Hinge, Lead, Carpets [etc.]. 1662J. Davies Mandelslo's Trav. 84 The Hingh, which our Drugsters and Apothecaries call Assa fœtida, comes for the most part from Persia. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 114 The Natives eat Hing, a sort of liquid Assa Fœtida, whereby they smell odiously. 1857Bellew Jrnl. Pol. Mission (1862) 270 (Y.) The assafœtida, called hang or hing by the natives, grows wild in the sandy..plains..of Afghanistan.
▪ II. hing
obs. and dial. f. hang; obs. pa. tense of hang; obs. f. hinge. |