the refined resinous substance deposited on the twigs of various trees by the female of the lac insect, used by women for drawing ornamental lines on their body.

a lash attached to a stick for urging on animals or punishing etc.; a whip.

a string; a rope.

an external opening in the head, through which most animals admit food and emit communicative sounds; the mouth.

a distinctive attribute or faculty; a characteristic trait; a quality.

the act of whipping, lashing; flogging.

the act or an instance of rubbing.

a type of black stone used to test the purity of gold or silver by the streak left on it when it was rubbed with the metal; a touchstone; streak plate.

brightness; radiance; brilliance; lustre.

the grass Saccharum spontaneum of Poaceae family.

the grass Sorghum nitidum (= Andropogon serratus) of Poaceae family.

a flower of this grass.

the act of cutting, severing or seperating (from the whole); a cutting.

the act or process of removing the testicles of a bull, ram, etc.; emasculation; castration.

a graft - a) a shoot or bud of one plant or tree inserted or to be inserted into the stem or trunk of another, where it continues to grow, becoming a permanent part; scion; b) the act or process of inserting such a bud or shoot; grafting.

a narrow strip of leather or cloth for fastening clothing, etc.; a string.

a lash attached to a stick for urging on animals or punishing etc.; a whip.

a nonhuman primate mammal esp. any of the smaller longer-tailed primates; a monkey.

the sun.

any of warm-blooded, two-legged, egg-laying vertebrates of Aves clas, with feathers and wings; a bird.

the grass Desmostachya bipinnata ( = Poa cynosuroides) of Poaceae family; with long blades, used in performing religious rites.

another grass of the same family, Desmostachya tripinnata.

water.

a metrical foot consisting of one short syllable followed by two long one (u-- ).

name of one of the seven mythological islands.

the hair growing on the head.

the mane of a horse or lion.

a ray of light.

Varuṇa, the Ocean-God.

a kind of perfume made from the fragrant grass Andropogon muricatus.

a case for the blade of a knife, sword, etc.; a sheath.

the oval or round body laid by a female bird, fish, reptile, insect, etc., containing the germ of a new individual along with food for its development, and having an enclosing shell or membrane; an egg.

either of two oval sex glands in the male that are suspended in the scrotum and secrete spermatozoa; the testicle.

the silky or fibrous case which the larvae of certain insects spin about themselves for shelter during the pupa stage; a cocoon.

a treasury - a) the funds or revenues as of a state; b) a place where public or private funds are kept, received, disbursed, and recorded.

gold or silver, in any form (held in the state treasury); a treasure.

a dry fruit or seed vessel developed from a single carpel enclosing one or more seeds and usu. splitting along two sutures at maturity, as a legume; a pod.

a hard outer covering, as of a turtle, mollusc, insect, etc.; the shell.

the pericarp in a lotus flower.

a container or box, capable of being locked and usu. of metal, in which to store valuables.

a store-house for grain.

an immature knoblike shoot from which a flower develops; a flower or leaf that is not fully open.

the external female genitals, esp. the external opening of the vagina; the vulva.

the male organ of copulation and (in mammals) urination; the penis.

a book containing words in a language, with definitions, (with or without etymologies, pronunciations, and other information); a dictionary; the special vocabulary of a particular author, field of study, etc. a lexicon.

(law) a kind of ordeal in which the accused and acuser were made to drink the holy water with which the idol of a deity was washed, which, it was believed, would fatally harm the person if he or she were not innocent.

(phil.) any of the five layers forming the gross, subtle and causal bodies in the complex structure of the human personality.

the hard, aromatic seed of the tree Myristica fragrans of the nutmeg family, which is grated and used as a spice, its outer covers as the spice mace; nutmeg.

the stone of a fruit (as mango).

a ball; a globe.

a dwelling place; a house.

a cloud.