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Bot.: Avena nuda. hill-tribes, s. pl. Ethnol.: Among the inhabitants of hills, as a rule, there are remnants of the tribes which po e ed the plains before their present occupants seized on them. Thus, in the British Isles, the Gaelic-speaking population of the Highlands once occupied also the Lowlands of Scotland, and the inhabitants of the Welsh hills the plains of England. At present the term hill-tribes is used chiefly of the Indian aborigines in the Him a lay as, the chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; . They are divided into many tribes, as Gonds, Khoonds, Bheels, ., are mostly Turanian, were in India before the Brahmans had invaded the land, have a primitive faith, in some cases attended by human sacrifice, speak truth, are brave, but rude and uncivilized. [KHOONDS.] They number several millions. Many are pa ing over to Christianity. [CASTE.]