nabee (nabe)

[E. Ind.] Same as bikh. nabk (nabk), n. [Ar. (1).] One of the plants which is alleged to have furnished the crown of thorns, Zizyphus Spina-Christ i, a bush of northern Africa and adjacent parts of Asia. nabob (na'bob), n. [Also (in defs. 1, 2) nawab; cf. F. nabab = Sp. nabab = Pg. nababo = It. na ba = G. nabob, a nabob (def. 3), Turk. naib ), nāib ), a a deputy, deputy, vice viceroy; cf. nawb, supplying the place of another.] 1. A viceroy icerov or governor of a province in India under the Mogul empire:as, the nabob of Oudh; the nabob of Surat. The nabob was, properly speaking, a subordinate provincial governor, who acted under a soubah or viceroy.-2. An honorary title occasionally conferred upon Mohammedans of distinction. -3. An Anglo-Indian who has acquired great wealth and lives in Eastern luxury; hence, any very rich and luxurious man. [Colloq.] He that goes out an insignificant boy in a few years returns a great Nabob. Burke, On Fox's E. I. Bill (Works, ed. 1852, III. 506). The Indian adventurer, or, as he was popularly called, the Nabob, was now a conspicuous and a very unpopular figure in Parliament. Lecky, Eng. in 18th Cent., xiii.