The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hindoo \Hin"doo\, Hindu \Hin"du\ (?; 277), n.; pl. Hindoosor Hindus. [Per. Hind[=u], fr. Hind, Hind[=u]st[=a]n, India. Cf. Indian.] A native inhabitant of Hindostan. As an ethnical term it is confined to the Dravidian and Aryan races; as a religious name it is restricted to followers of the Veda.
Usage examples of "hindoos".
They were mostly Hanuman monkeys—flailing, whiptailed ectomorphs who acted as if they owned the place—which, according to Hindoos, they did.
They now began to bobble and twitch as sleepy Hindoos emerged from them.
And there were Hindoos of diverse martial castes who for whatever reason had elected to throw in their lot with the Moguls.
Jack ended up sitting in the shade of a tree with Jimmy and Danny and Enoch, eating mangoes that literally fell into their laps, occasionally jumping up to sweep back plagues of ants, and watching these black Hindoos live their lives.
I have, at least, received trustworthy accounts in regard to Hindoos, Dhangars (one of the aboriginal hill tribes of India, and therefore belonging to a quite distinct race from the Hindoos), Malays, Negroes and Australians.
It has been observed with men belonging to various races, namely with Hindoos, the dark hill-tribes of India, Malays, and, as the Rev.
One instance was observed with the Hindoos, and they themselves said that it often occurred.
My informants, from various parts of the Old and New Worlds, answer in the affirmative to my queries on this head, and they give some particulars with respect to Hindoos, Malays, and New Zealanders.
The brightness of the eyes of the Australians has struck four observers, and the same fact has been noticed with Hindoos, New Zealanders, and the Dyaks of Borneo.
Nevertheless, it is clear that the Australians, Malays, Hindoos, and Kafirs of South Africa frown, when they are puzzled.
They are displayed in an exaggerated degree with the Hindoos and natives of Ceylon.
Erskine has never noticed that the necks of the Hindoos are decidedly affected.
As to the sacred books of the Hindoos, all that are yet in our hands are the Bhagvat Geeta, the Ezour-Vedam, the Bagavadam, and certain fragments of the Chastres printed at the end of the Bhagvat Geeta.
The Hindoos made a general massacre of the mussulmauns, and erected a platform with their heads on the field of battle.
During these operations a body of five thousand Hindoos, enraged to desperation at the destruction of their country and the insults of their gods, united in taking an oath to sacrifice their lives in attempting to kill the sultan, as the grand author of all their sufferings.