dhan (dan)

[Hind. Beng. dhan.] A gold and silver weight of Bengal, the 384th part of a tola. It is now, by law, 0.469 of a grain troy, but was formerly 0.585 of a grain. dhar (där), n. [Burmese.] The curved sword of the Burmese, also used as a chopping-imple ment. The Burmese dropped their lances and dhars , and fled yelling back toward the pagoda. J. W. Palmer , The New and the Old, p. 421. dharri (dar'i), n. [Hind. dhari , also dharā , a weight (5 seers).] An East Indian unit of under itself at the waist behind. It is sometimes drawn close in all its parts, and sometimes the parts surrounding the thighs are allowed to hang loosely almost to the knees. Also dhotie, dotie.