to engage a guard or guards to watch, protect someone or something.

darkly; blackly; gloomingly.

a man who watches, guards or protects another person or his property, etc.

food that is not properly cooked.

to move suddenly and rapidly; to jump upward or forward; to spring up with two or all the feet at once; to jump; to hop.

= ಕುಪ್ಪಿ1 - 1.

a hollow cylinder, as of reed, straw, etc.

the sharp point, of a metal, of an arrow.

a metal (esp. golden) cap for the pearls used in a necklace or for the beads of a rosary.

5 a semi-globular ear-ornament of women.

the knee-cap at the knee joint.

a piece of cork or something made of cork; esp., a stopper for a bottle, cask, etc.

= ಕೂಪ2 - 1 & 3.

a long, narrow, deep cleft or crack; a fissure.

a pit dug for water, on the bed of a dried river.

a rock or tree in a river.

the cavity of the loins just above the hips of a woman.

= ಕೋಪಿಷ್ಠ.

to become very dark.

= ಗೋಪಿ - 2.