of low or no value, status, importance, etc.

eaten or infected by worms.

anything eaten or infected by worms; that which is putrid or rotten.

the condition of such a thing.

meanness; baseness; mean-mentality; pettiness; narrow-mindedness.

a swollen, inflamed area in body tissues, in which pus is gathered; a part of the body that is infected.

a fault; a defect; a blemish; a flaw.

the physical body of a person or animal (diff. from the life principle).

transparent, colourless or slightly tinged quartz; a crystal.

something resembling crystal in transparency, colourlessness and clarity.

a solidified form of a substance in which the atoms or molecules are arranged in a definite pattern that is repeated regularly in three dimensions.

the plant Barleria cristata of Acanthaceae family; purple nail dye plant.

its flower.

the plant Rhinacanthus nasuta ( = R. communis) of Acanthaceae family.

a camphor crystal.

a glow of reflected light; a lustre.

the quality of being ancient or old; antiquity.

a dried leaf or leaves of a plant.

(rightly, ಹಲಗೆ) a long, broad, thick wooden board.

the board on which chess or dice-game is played.

one round of play any of these games.

a board made ready for painting on.

a kind of defensive shield.

a percussion instrument consisting of a hollow hemisphere with a wide mouth on which a membrane stretched tightly, played by beating with the sticks; a kind of drum.

a kind of bird.

(dial.) a liquid food used to mix with rice.

the grouse Pterochurus exnotus; a sand grouse.