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[Eng. index; -er.] One who makes an index. In-děx-1-cal, a. [Eng. index; -ical .] Pertaining to, or having the form of, an index. In-děx-i-cal-lý, adv . [Eng. indexical ; -ly .] After the manner of an index. In-děx-ing, s. [Eng. index ; -ing.] The act or art of drawing-up an index or of inserting subjects in an index. "With a view to establishing a uniform method of indexing."-London Athenœum. In-dex-těr'-1-ty, s . [Pref. in- (2), and Eng. dexterity (q. v.).] Want of dexterity; want of readine ; want of skill; awkwardne , clumsi ne . "The indexterity of our consumption-curers demon. strates their dimne in beholding its causes."-Harvey: On Consumption. In-di-a, s. s. & a. [Lat., ., India ; Gr. India , In dikë ; Pehlive & Zand Heando , Hendu ; Sansc. Hind ; from Lat. Sind (Pliny, vi. 23); Sansc. Sindhu =the river Indus, any river. The first mention of India in a cla ic author is in the Supplices of Æschylus, 282.] A. As subst.: A great peninsula in the south of Asia, 1,830 miles from north to south, and nearly the same from east to west if it is made to include A am. Area, 1,399,443 square miles. ( Thornton , .) B. As adj .: The same as INDIAN, a . (q. v.). India-matting, s. Matting made in the East, usually from Papyrus corymbosus. ( Simmonds .) India-rubber, Indian-rubber, s. The same as CAOUTCHOUC (q. v.). The name India or Indian refers to the West, not to the East Indies, from the former of which the first India-rubber was brought. India - rubber tree: Bot.: For ste ron i a floribunda . In-di-a-mạn, s . [Eng. India , and man.] A large ship employed in the Indian trade. "Every India man that arrived in the Thames was bringing unwelcome news from the East." - Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. xviii. 2302 In-di-an, a. & s. [Eng. Indi ( a ); -an ; Fr. Indien .] A. As adjective: I. Ordinary Language: 1 & 2. [II., 1, 2.] 3. Made of Indian corn. II. Technically: 1. Geog., .: Of or belonging to either the East or West Indies or their productions. 2. Ethnol. & Hist. Of or belonging to the natives of India or the aborigines of America. B. As substantive: 1. A native of India. 2. One of the aborigines of America; a red man. The connection between 1 and 2 is that the ex pedition of Columbus, by which America was found, was intended to seek out a new route to India. When land was found, it was believed to be part of India or some land adjacent to it. When the mistake was discovered, the appellation West Indies was given to distinguish the new region from the long-known East Indies. Indian-architecture, s . Arch .: The architecture existing in, and to a certain extent peculiar to, India. No remains exist earlier than the third century B. C., when the Emperor Asoka made Buddhism the religion of India. After that period there arose (1) Buddhist architecture (q. v.), followed by (2) Jaina architecture (q.v.). Of styles more distinctively Hindu there were four-viz., (3) the Southern, (4) the Northern, and (5) the Modern Hindu; and (6) the Cash miri an. Temples, ., of the Southern Hindu style exist within the area formed by a line drawn east and west from Madras to Man galore, constituting a triangle having each side 400 miles. The chief race is the Tamul. The temples are divided into a square Viman (the temple proper), with a pyramidal roof of (gate-pyramids), and Choultries (pillared halls). The most splendid example is the temple at Tanjore, its base being a square of 82 feet; the height, two stories; the pyramidal roof, fourteen; the height, 180 or 200 feet. The Kylas of Ellora is of the Southern Hindu style. The Northern Hindu is rarer, and is of Aryan origin. The finest temples are in Ori a, especially Bob anes war, built about A. D. 657. They have a curved spire, sometimes surrounded by other spires. The Modern Hindu style is this ancient one modified by Mohammedan styles. The Cash miri an type of temple has two or four roofs and dormer windows; and in some cases has pillars like Doric, the legacy perhaps of the old Greek Bactrian kingdom. There is also a trefoiled arch of unknown origin. (Fergu on: Architecture ) [TEMPLE.] Indian-arrowroot, s . Another name for East Indian arrowroot. [ARROWROOT.] stories, Mantapas (porches), Indian-bay, s . Bot.: Laurus indica . [LAURUS.] Indian-berry, s . Bot.: Cocculus indicus . ( Loudon .) Indian black-wood, s. [DALBERGIA.] Indian-blue, s. Bot.: Nymphæa cyanea. Indian-bread, s . Bot.: Jatropha manihot . Indian-camphor, s . Bot.: Dryobalanops camphor a . Indian-cedar, s. Bot.: The Deodar (q. v.). Indian chocolate-root, s . Pharm.: A root, supposed to be that of Geum rivale , much used in America in diseases of the bladder. Indian-club, s. A wooden club which is swung by the hand for gymnastic exercise. Indian-copal, s . Bot.: Valeria indica . Indian-cordage, s. Cordage formed of the husk of the cocoa-nut. Indian-corn, s . Bot.: The American name for Maize, Zea Mays (q. v.). [MAIZE.] Indian-cre , s . Botany : 1. Sing.: The genus Tropæolum, of which one species, Tropœolum major, is an ornamental plant in gardens. 2. Pl .: The order Tropæolacee (q. v.). Indian-cucumber, s . IMG:content-1598.png:[blocks in formation] Indian-reed, s. Bot.: The genus Canna. Indian-salt, s. Bot.: Saccharum of ficin ale . Indian-shot, India-shot, s. Bot.: Canna (q.v.). The species are from India and the warmer parts of this country. [CANNA, 1.] Indian-steel, s. [WooTz.] Indian-summer, s. A period of summer-like weather in North America, occurring late in autumn. Indian Territory, s. An unorganized tract of country set apart by the United States goverment, in 1834, as an abode for tribal Indians. Kansas and a portion of S. Nebraska were constituted from the country originally included within the so-called In Bot.: Medeola virginica , which is from Virginia dian Territory. Portions of the Indian Terri ory and not from India. ( Loudon .) Indian-currant, s . were, by act of Congre approved May 2, 1890, included in a newly organized Territory, to be known as Oklahoma. The Indian Territory as now const i and Kansas, E. by Mi ouri and Arkansas, and S. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, Indian-tobacco by Red river, which separates it from Texas. Area, 31.400 square miles. The country is very fertile, the climate genial, and valuable crops of cotton, wheat, corn and potatoes are produced. Some of the tribes have made considerable advances in civ. i liz at i on and have established schools and churches, The tribes are governed by a legislature and a head chief, and are within the legal jurisdiction of, and amenable to, the United States court established for the judicial district of the Indian Territory. Citizenship is regulated by tribal laws, and others than Indians can hold land in the Territory only by marrying into one of the tribes. There are about 10,000 Indians on outside reservations in the Terri tory not members of the Five Nations. The prin. cipal towns are, capital of Creek Nation, Okmulgee; chief town, Muscogee, seat of Union Agency and U.S.court; capital of Cherokee Nation. Tablequah; of Choctaw Nation, Atoka; Chick a saw, Tishomingo; Seminole, Wo-wo-ka. Indian-tobacco, s. Bot .: (1) Lobelia in flat a ; (2) Cannabis indica. Indian-tortoise, s. Zool.: Testu to indica.