Crossword-Solution: EMBLIC
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Hint 1 meaning
To go or move with one side foremost; to move sidewise;
as, to sidle through a crowd or narrow opening.
Hint 2 anagram
SELDI
Hint 3 another clue
Move
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Sentences with EMBLIC (5)
The following things are avoided one on each of the fifteen tithis respectively:-- Kohala (pumpkin), dorli (Solanum indicum), salt, sesamum, sour things, oil, ávale (Emblic myrobalan), cocoanuts, bhopala (gourd), padval (snake-gourd), pávte (Dolichos Lablah), masur (Lens esculenta), brinjal, honey, gambling.
Martindale, chemist, of New Cavendish Street, London, has forwarded to me a preparation of another kind of Myrobalans, EMBLIC MYROBALANS, the fresh fruit of _Phyllanthus Emblica_ (_Linn._), a common Indian tree, preserved in sugar.
Crawfurd is positive that the place was called from the word _malaka_, the Malay name of the _Phyllanthus emblica_, or emblic MYROBALAN (q.v.), "a tree said to be abundant in that locality"; and this, it will be seen below, is given by Godinho de Eredia as the etymology.
Five species are described by all writers on them, both ancient and modern, namely, the Citrine, Belleric, Chebulic, Emblic, and Indian.
Besides these three kinds he mentions, as possessing purgative powers of a like nature, two medicines, which he calls _empelilez_ and _empletze_, by which he no doubt meant Emblic and Belleric.