to prod or pierce the nose.

(fig.) to put forward the face and bring the nose near an object as to grasp the smell of it.

a small flat-roofed, temporary structure, raised on four pillars having no walls on any side, which is gaily decorated, for keeping an idol.

= ಮಖಧ್ವಂಸಿ - 1.

the letter 'ಮ' (pronounced with the vowel ಅ).

a container made of interwoven bamboo splits, strips of wood, cane, etc., usu. without a handle; a basket.

a basin-like container made of bamboo splits used for fetching water from a water body into a channel.

a monk or religious mendicant.

= ಮಕರಪತ್ರ.

a female crocodile.

a kind of cloth.

the small-sized tree Xeromphis spinosa ( = Gardenia floribunda, Randia dumetorum) of Rubiaceae family.

any of several flesh-eating crocodilians of the genus Crocodylus, having thick, horny skin, long tail, a long, narrow triangular head, large jaws, found in sluggish waters and swamps of the tropics; a crocodile.

any of a group of large cartilaginous marine fishes, having rounded body & underside mouth, tough, spiny skin, voracious, and, which sometime attack to humans; shark.

(myth.) one of the nine treasures of Kubera, the regent of wealth.

a military array in which troops are arranged in the form of a corodile.

(astrol.) the tenth sign of the zodiac; the Capricorn.

(dance) a hand gesture, in which one palm is place on the back of another hand, with thumbs of both the hands stretched apart and other fingers stretched forward.