Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9299

1752.—“. . . to find the Value of the Touch in Fanams, multiply the Matt by 10, and then by 8, which gives it in Fanams.”—T. Brooks, 25.