any of several jumping orthopterous insects of the family Gryllidae, commonly found in places where plants are thickly grown, and which make continuous jarring sound during night.

the indistinct sound made while drinking a liquid hastily.

a sound imitating it.

an adhesive substance, as glue; an adhesive.

a solid mass of no special shape or made look like a ball; a lump.

anything that acts as organic catalyst in the fermentation (as of the dough for iḍli, dōse, etc.).

the juice or sap of anything.

a soft food made of cereal or meal boiled in water to which buttermilk is added.

(fig.) the state of being associated, joined, firmly or homogenously.

a thick, strong cord made of intertwisted strands of fibre.

a kind of small fish .

anything that is offered to a god as an oblation.

a vessel used for offering an oblation ( in a sacrifice).

the offering of an animal as in propitiation or homage.

(fig.) food; meal.

the act of walking, moving.

a person employed by a government to obtain secret information or intelligence about another or to keeps close and secret watch on the actions and words of a person or a group of persons organisations, etc.; a spy.

a servant; a menial.

a way, manner, in which something is to be done or is done.

a shackle for the hand; handcuff; manacle.

the fact of a person being kept in a prison; imprisonment.

the medium sized tree Buchanania lanzan (= B. latifolia) of Anacardiaceae family, the seeds of which are used as food, esp. in making sweets, and also in getting tannin; forest mango.

a mischievous play.

coarse food for livestock, composed of entire plants, including leaves, stalks, grass etc.; fodder.

a small ball or cone-shaped missile of lead, metal alloy, etc., to be shot from a firearm; a bullet; a slug.

any of the pieces used as pawns in the game of dice or a chessman used in chess.

a kind of dye.

a female friend or maid servant.