a fight, esp. a large-scale engagement, between armed forces on land, at sea or in the air; armed fighting; combat or war; a battle.

a particular manner of playing musical instruments.

a small swelling or projection on a plant, from which a flower develops; a flower-bud.

small flame at the end of a burning wick of a lamp.

a fruit in its very early stage.

a young leaf or bunch of young leaves.

a particular kind of prose.

any of a genus (Capra) of wild or domesticated bovid ruminants with hollow horns; a goat.

the grass Sorghum vulgare (= Andropogon sorghum) of Poaceae family.

its millet; great sorghum.

a kind of flowering plant.

temporary loss of consciousness as from fatigue, mental shock, etc.

the state of being exhausted; the condition of being used up; complete consumption.

a small quantity of liquid that is somewhat spherical, as when falling; a drop.

any of the small staffs or rods fixed on side beams on either sides of a bullock cart, to which a frame of bamboos is fixed.