a hollow place; a depression on the surface of the earth.

a rounded knotty depression in the centre of the belly caused by the detachment of the umbilical cord; the umbilicus; the navel.

a container, of usu. small size, for liquids, made of glass (as an ink-pot).

a bottle or flask used, as an oil container.

a regular payment of money, etc., made by one ruler or nation to another as acknowledgment of subjugation, for protection from invasion, etc.; tribute.

to break and turn up or remove (ground, etc.) with a spade or other tool or with hands, claws, snout, etc.; to dig.

a hole, pit in the ground made to catch wild animals.

a deep, broad ditch dug around a farm, garden etc. for avoiding cattle coming in.

a water way for excess rain water to flow out of a areca field.

(dial.) a kind of bag made of woven or plaited hemp, straw, rope, etc.

a small compartment in a cupboard.

a small fixed wheel, turning in a block, with a grooved rim in which a rope or chain runs, as to raise or lower a weight attached at one end by pulling on or releasing, the other end; a pulley.

a ring of gold or silver wire for the wrist or ankle, worn as an ornament or as the sign of a vow to a deity.

to cover, close (as a lid); to veil; to overspread (as cloud).

a hole, pit in the ground made to catch wild animals.

a deep, broad ditch dug around a farm, garden etc. for avoiding cattle coming in.

a water way for excess rain water to flow out of a areca field.

any of various mainly long-tailed agile tree-dwelling primates of the families Cebidae, Callithricidae, and Cercopithecidae; a monkey.

a mischievous person, esp. a child.