(pl.) whole grains of soaked rice mixed with turmeric used in religious ceremonies and formally blessing.

(arch.) a kind of tax.

a bold, usu. risky undertaking; a hazardous action; an adventure.

the quality of being bold, brave, valorous.

the air taken in to the lungs and let out; breath.

the act of exhaling.

any of various swift, burrowing mammals (order Lagomorpha), characterised by soft fur, long ears, a stubby tail, and the bearing of naked young ones; a rabit or hare.

the black spots on the moon which are likened to a hare.

the tree Symplocos racemosa of Sympolocaceae family; the lodh tree.

a deer or antelope.

a man of mild character (one of the four classes in to which men are divided in erotic science).

one of the five classes of men based on the physical size.

to pull out by the roots; to root up.

to cut, sever (a part from the whole).

to comb and clean cotton.

to fall down (as a fruit from the plant or a tooth from the jaw).

(a group of persons, animal or a heap of things) to break up and move in different directions; to scatter; to disperse.

to squeeze or compress tightly between the thumb, and a finger (to inflict pain); to nip; to pinch.

the moon (whose black spots are presumed to resemble a hare).

a whitish, translucent, crystalline, pleasant-odoured terpene ketone, obtained from the camphor tree, used chiefly in the manufacture of celluloid and in medicine as a counter-irritant for infections and in the treatment of pain and itching; camphor.

a young plant.

(fig.) a beginning, start (of something).

a particular lock or hold in wrestling.

(pros.) a metrical verse of four lines, each line having six Viṣṇugaṇas followed by two Brahmagaṇas.

the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth; the head.