not bright; without lustre; dull; dim; unpolished (as rice).

the quality of not being brilliant or of lacking shining; dimness; dullness.

(dial.) unpolished rice.

(dial.) a track of land with plenty of sub-soil water.

a heavy war-club; a mace.

a violent contention or altercation between individuals or with others; a quarrel.

the act of contending; strife; struggle; controversy; dispute; contention.

a false reason or motive put forth to hide the real one; an excuse; a pretext.

a small, chiming bell usu. attached to ornaments, playing sticks, etc.

(correctly ಗಜ) an elephant.

a churning, beating or shaking (milk, cream, etc.) in a churn (as to make butter from).

an apparatus used to churn (milk, curd etc.); a churning-stick.

a large long-handled spoon with a cup-shaped bowl used for serving liquid foods; a ladle.

a physical struggle; a fight; battle; a combat.

either of Elephas maximus or Loxodonta africana of the Proboscidea order, huge, thick-skinned, largest of extant four-footed animals, almost hairless mammal, with a long flexible trunk and, usu. two ivory tusks growing out of the upper jaw, which is commonly domesticated; an elephant.

(in comp.) anything that is huge, large.

a unit of linear measure equal to 3 feet or 36 inches (0.9144 meter); a yard.

a unit of measure of writing paper; a double foolscap size.

a piece of an iron rod.

a small hollow bamboo piece used to shoot with the seeds of certain plants, used as a toy.

the symbol of the number eight.

a kind oflliteration, in which the alliterative consonant is not a compound and has a long preceding vowel.

effort directed to an end; a work, deed done or intended to be done.