a good, nutritious food given or prescribed for nourishment of the body.

to undergo sufferings, pain, agony; to grieve.

any of large gruiform wading birds of Gruidae family, with very long legs and neck, and a long, straight bill; a crane.

to chew slowly steadily (a piece of crisp food), with a crunching sound.

to peck and pick up with the beak.

to reduce (oneself) in size; to shrink; to contract (oneself).

to bend (from one's straight position).

to feel dejected; to cast down in spirit; to get disheartened; to be depressed.

the condition or quality of being dwarfish or having stunted growth; dwarfishness.

a small water container with a handle, a snout or nozzle.

frozen rain falling in a shower or storm of pellets; hail.

the tree bearing this fruit, Punica granatum of Punicaceae family and its fruit; pomegranate.

a large area covered chiefly with trees and undergrowth; a forest.

the tree Terminalia chebula of Combretaceae family.

its nut; myrobalan.

a structure or place where a bird lays eggs and shelters its young; a nest.

a water pitcher; a pot.

the hard outer cover of the coconut kernal; coconut shell.

the terminal part of the arm from the wrist to the tip of fingers; the hand.

a regular and mandatory payment made to a ruler by his subordinate ruler; tribute.

a kind of bird.

a water-jar.

a festival observed on the full moon-day of the 12th month of a lunar year, in which a man, dressed as a woman runs on the roads carrying on his head jars filled with water without holdig them.

a folk dance prevailing in some parts of Tamiḷ Nāḍu and Kēraḷa.

ಕರಗದಮ್ಮ karagadamma a female deity of ಕರಗ.

the front of the neck beneath the chin and above the collar-bones, containing the upper parts of the gullet and windpipe; the throat.

absorbed deeply; engrossed (in).