to be or serve as a covering for; to extend or spread over; to cover.

to place something over or upon, as for protection, concealment or warmth; to cover.

to conceal by hiding or screening; to cover.

to keep from the knowledge of others; to keep secret.

to close (the eyelids, a door, window, one's mouth, etc.).

to fill (a hole, cavity, breach, crack, etc.) with something.

the condition of being closed (as the petals of a flower).

that with which something is covered, concealed.

anything that is kept from the knowledge of others; a secret.

a sticky, colloidal carbohydrate found in certain trees and plants; gum.

the plantain tree Musa sapientum (var. champa) of Musaceae family.

its fruit.

the tree Moringa oleifera ( = M. pterygosperma, = Hyperanthera moringa) of Moringaceae family.

its slender, long fruit, used as a vegetable; a drum-stick.

a large, deciduous tree Bombax ceiba ( = B. malabaricum, = Salmalia malbaricum) of Bombacaceae family; Indian silk cotton tree.

= ಮಚ್ಚೆ1.

the purity or extent of purity of precious metals as gold, silver, etc.

a kind of black stone formerly used to test the purity of gold or silver by the streak left on it when it was rubbed with the metal; a touchstone.

any of three classes of coldblooded vertebrate animals living in water and having permanent gills for breathing, fins; a fish.

the shape of a fish.

the plant Solanum indicum of Solanaceae family; brinjal plant.

its fruit; wild brinjal.

the plant Artemisia indica of Asteraceae family.

another plant Artemisia maderaspatana ( = Grangea maderaspatana) of the same family.

name of various other plants as Quercus incana, Q. lusitanica ( = Q. infectoria), Q. robur, etc. of Fagaceae family.

a fruit of any of these plants.

= ಮಾಜು1.

= ಮೋಚ - 2 & 3.

a man whose work is mending shoes or making shoes to order; a cobbler.