sena
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of sena
Hindi
Example Sentences
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So they pushed the dogs back to the sena at the fastest gait to which they could urge them.
From Bobby of the Labrador by Wallace, Dillon
This fever continued, though with remissions, for two or three weeks; and the patient repeatedly lost blood, used cathartics with calomel and sena, and had frequent antimonial and saline medicines.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
They were away to the sena, and the Great Adventure, at last.
From Bobby of the Labrador by Wallace, Dillon
That was the sena for which they were bound.
From Bobby of the Labrador by Wallace, Dillon
In Favre’s Malay-French Dictionary daun sena-maki is translated feuilles de séné, no notice being taken of the last word; but Shakespear’s Hindustani Dictionary has sena makk-i, “senna of Mecca.”
From A Manual of the Malay language With an Introductory Sketch of the Sanskrit Element in Malay by Maxwell, William Edward, Sir
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