Javanadj.n.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 541 A Iavan King..which had a hundred wives.

1817 T. S. Raffles Hist. Java I. i. 49 Wild quadrupeds, the rhinoceros, and bánteng, or wild Javan ox.

1883 G. Allen Colin Clout's Cal. xii. 69 The Javan and Indian fauna.

1893 W. B. Worsfold Visit to Java x. 172 The average size of the Javan coffee plantation is from 400 to 500 acres.

1939 G. T. Wrench Restoration of Peasantries v. 58 They stood aside from indifference and lack of interest in their Javan subjects.

1962 Times 20 Dec. 9/6 Some such as..the Javan Rhinoceros are on the verge of extinction.

1964 R. Perry World of Tiger xiii. 192 The reputations of some Javan tigers as man-eaters have served to scare poachers away from the haunts of the lesser one-horned rhino.

1965 R. McKie Company of Animals xiii. 184 Two species of rhinoceros..have lived in the jungles of Malaya for thousands of years. One, known as the Javan, has one horn on its snout.

1966 C. A. W. Guggisberg S.O.S. Rhino v. 125 The 300 to 400 bantengs (Bibos javanicus) and the numerous Javan deer (Rusa timorensis)..frequent the more open parts of the reserve.

1606 E. Scott (title) An exact discourse of the..East Indians, as well Chyneses as Iauans.

1892 in G. T. Wrench Restoration of Peasantries (1939) v. 59 The Javans have escaped the fatal gift of proprietary right which has been the ruin of so many tens of thousands of our peasantry in India.

1910 Encycl. Brit. VII. 795/2 The Javans are perhaps unique in their distinct and graceful gestures of the hands and fingers [in dancing].

1939 G. T. Wrench Restoration of Peasantries v. 58 They [sc. the Dutch] made no effort to impose the methods of their civilization upon the Javans for their good.