Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.117
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.117
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AGAR-AGAR, s. The Malay name of a kind of sea-weed (*Spherococcus lichenoides*). It is succulent when boiled to a jelly; and is used by the Chinese with birdsnest (*q.v.*) in soup. They also employ it as a glue, and apply it to silk and paper intended to be transparent. It grows on the shores of the Malay Islands, and is much exported to China. -(*See Crawfurd, Dict. Ind. Arch., and Milburn, ii. 304*).