Crossword-Solution: MURID 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

This was in connection with the siege of Himri, where he served as murid or disciple under the chieftain Khasi-Mollah.

Besides the crack of the rifle, the only sounds from the fortress which fell down on the air when it was still, were the muezzin's call to prayer, or the shout of triumph when some frenzy-driven murid, sallying from his hiding-place, leaped suddenly into the midst of an exposed party of the enemy, and at the price of his own life sent twice, thrice, four times as many unbelieving souls to hell.

Remember Horry Arbuthnot, big dashing fellow in the Cavalry? He has been and gone and married the daughter of old Murid-ud-din of Bala." "You don't say so! How on earth did he manage it?" "Why, he was sent up to help Tika Singh in pacifying the hill tracts--or rather, to keep him from perpetrating a massacre and calling it pacification--and Murid-ud-din's widow and family had taken refuge there.

Next year he despatched another large army, furnished with heavy artillery, against Ghergebil, which drove out the Murid garrison by a tremendous bombardment, but retired without occupying the place.

Although this Old World murid rat is much different from the woodrat in habits, it seemingly can compete with it and replace it where habitat conditions are otherwise favorable for both.