an Arabic word, which signifies literally attachment, connection, dependence. In Bengal, however, where it occurs perpetually in the enumeration of the districts and subdivisions of that province contained in the institutes of Akber, it signifies a tenure of land. Hence the talook of Calhut, the talook of Mehys the headman, the talook of Ahmed Khan, &c. See A Dissertation concerning the Landed Property of Bengal, by Sir Charles Routh Boughton.