The Collaborative International Dictionary
Khond \Khond\, n. A Dravidian of a group of tribes of Orissa, India, a section of whom were formerly noted for their cruel human sacrifices to the earth goddess, murder of female infants, and marriage by capture.
Usage examples of "khond".
Each Khond was too full of his own worries this fateful night to pay attention to his neighbor.
The Sarks carried ballistas, and Carse saw two of the Khond ships holed and sunk by the hurtling stones.
And they stared in some amazement at the tall man with her, who looked like a Khond and wore a great sword.
A few in the crowd recognized it as the ceremonial knife of the Khond sacrifice of the Meriah, a ritual not openly practiced in India for at least a hundred and fifty years, where a human sacrifice was put to death by strangulation and his body dismembered and spread over the fields to entreat the gods for a good harvest.
It was going to be a problem to explain his race, for he knew that the Khonds themselves would not make the same mistake the Jekkarans had.
But in the west are small free kingdoms of hardy sea-rovers like the Khonds and their Sea-Kings defy the power of Sark.
How many Khonds do you think have died these long years past, trying to face those weapons?
Under-manned as she was the galley could not hope to outdistance the Khonds under oars alone.
The rowers drooped and sweated at the oars driven only by their fear of the Khonds and try as they would there was no bite in the stroke.
They charged in among the Khonds and scattered them and the air was filled with shouts and the twangings of bow strings, and the terrible ripping sound of splintering oars as a whole bank was crushed into matchwood.
Time and again the Khonds attacked, their light swift craft darting in hornet-like, and were driven off.
Two of the escort ships fell back with their canvas ablaze but the Khonds suffered also.
Apart from the Khonds, the Aztecs of Mexico showed the process most clearly, for a young girl was beheaded at the temple of the maize god in a ceremony performed when the crop was just ripe.
An account of the nineteenth-century human sacrifice among the Khonds of Bengal is given in the notes.