TURWEEAH, the eighth day of the Muham madan month Zeehnj is so called.
TUS or Tuz. IliND. A bark upon which, in addition to leather, the ancient Persiztns wrote, tuul seems also to have been ancieutly used in Northern India. In Iliwen Thsang's time, the early Buddhist scriptures of Kasyltpa's council were written on the leaves of the tala palm. In the 11th century, according, to Alburini, paper was used. In the south of India the leaves of the palmyra are still (1884) used, but in the provinces of Central and Northern India they had long- used the inner bark of a tree called tuz, and it was the bark of a tree of the kind called bhoj, a species of Morns or Betwa, with which they covered their vessels, supposed to be bark of the Betula bhojputrzt.
Tus, an ancient city of Khorasan, two marches N.E. from Nishapur, and a little to the north of the modern town of Meshed. It consisted of two towns, Tabaran and Nukan, and was once a place of considerable importance, but it was devastated by the Uzbaks iu 996 A.li. (1588 A.D.),
and its place has been taken by Meshed.
TUS or Tush. HIND. Wool, shawl-wool. The first quality of shawl-wool is called shah-tus or ash-tus. Tus klind rang or grey tus is the second quality of shawl-wool, its mune meaning wool of natural colour. Raw pashm of the Tibetan goat, used in the manufacture of Kashmir shawls of the kind called tusha, is produced in Tibet.
Tusi is a fine cloth of Kashmir, used as a lining for shawls, also for stockings and gloves. It is woven from the soft under-fleece, called Asali Tits, of the Capra sibirica. or Himalayan ibex, which are shot and snared in winter in Chini, near the Sutlej valley, apd in the Balti valley and Ladakh. No wool is so rich, so soft, and so full.