Also Brachmany, Brahmany, Brahminy, Braminy. [f. BRAHMIN, prob. after anal. of native Indian derivatives like Bengalee (Bengālī), etc.] Pertaining to the Brahmin caste; appropriated to the Brahmins. Brahminee bull = Brahmin ox; Brahminee duck, the Casarca rutila; Brahminee fig-tree, the ‘Banyan’ (Ficus Indica); Brahminee kite, the Haliastur Indicus (Balfour, Cycl. India, I. 437, where the spelling is Brahmany).
1811. Mrs. Sherwood, Henry & Bearer, 30. Under the shade of a Braminee fig-tree. Ibid. (c. 1813), Stories Ch. Catech., x. 73. No answer … was made … excepting by the pigeons and brahminee kites.
1830. Marryat, King’s Own, xlii. He … took away a Brachmany … girl.
1884. Macm. Mag., No. 292. 303. Everywhere we see the inevitable Brahminy kite.
1885. Lady Brassey, The Trades, 99. The cattle … feeding peacefully beside Brahminee bulls.
