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Malayan

Malay \Ma*lay"\, Malayan \Ma*lay"an\, prop. a. Of or pertaining to the Malays or their country. -- n. The Malay language.

Malay apple (Bot.), a myrtaceous tree ( Eugenia Malaccensis) common in India; also, its applelike fruit.

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Malayan (film)

Malayan is a Tamil language film released in 2009. It stars Karan and Shammu in the lead roles. The film failed at the Box-office.

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Malayan animals are found on the confines of Burmah, and even extending into Assam, it is probable that this species may be discovered in Tenasserim.

Sikim, Assam, Burmah, and down the Malayan Peninsula to Sumatra, Java and Borneo.

Afghanistan to Bengal, also Assam and Burmah, and on into the Malayan peninsula.

Himalayas to Assam, the Garo hills, Sylhet, and Cachar, spreading from Northern Assam across to Yunnan, and through Arakan and Tenasserim on to the Malayan peninsula and Borneo.

Monsieur Doctor, they are not of Malayan origin, but Cushite, and the Cushites were an Aryan people, as doubtless you know.

We also find it in the Mongolian oulous, the Kabyle thaddart, the Javanese dessa, the Malayan kota or tofa, and under a variety of names in Abyssinia, the Soudan, in the interior of Africa, with natives of both Americas, with all the small and large tribes of the Pacific archipelagoes.

A guard in a uniform of human skin, black buck jacket with carious yellow teeth buttons, an elastic pullover shirt in burnished Indian copper, adolescentnordic-sun-tan slacks, sandals from calloused foot soles of young Malayan farmer, an ash-brown scarf knotted and tucked in the shirt.

It was the same motive, for example, that caused the Malayan jungles to be cleared for rubber estates, and which now causes those estates to be handed over intact to the Japanese.

CONTENTS LEAVES FROM A NOTE BOOK ASIDES TOM FOLIO FLEABODY AND OTHER QUEER NAMES A NOTE ON "L'AIGLON" PLOT AND CHARACTER THE CRUELTY OF SCIENCE LEIGH HUNT AND BARRY CORNWALL DECORATION DAY WRITERS AND TALKERS ON EARLY RISING UN POETE MANQUE THE MALE COSTUME OF THE PERIOD ON A CERTAIN AFFECTATION WISHMAKERS' TOWN HISTORICAL NOVELS POOR YORICK THE AUTOGRAPH HUNTER ROBERT HERRICK LEAVES FROM A NOTE BOOK IN his Memoirs, Kropotkin states the singular fact that the natives of the Malayan Archipelago have an idea that something is extracted from them when their likenesses are taken by photography.

Then the lines ran for 100 kilometers like thin Malayan krises, wavy blades, side by side, before turning northeastward.

The word Aloes, in Latin Lignum Aloes, is used in the Bible and in many ancient writings to designate a substance totally distinct from the modern Aloes, namely the resinous wood of Aquilaria agallocha, a large tree growing in the Malayan Peninsula.

To this blood mixture was added the contribution of outcast Fingo and Pondo tribesmen, fugitives from the wiles of their own cruel chiefs and merciless witchdoctors, and Malayan slaves, escaped from their Dutch burgher masters, who had found their way through the secret passes of the mountains that defended the Cape of Good Hope like the turreted walls of a great castle.