any of the foods or parched pulses, that is crisp and eaten slowly and steadily in small quantities, with a crunching sound.

a fruit ripened too much, that has lost its natural taste.

the state of being in very advanced age; ripe age.

that which is burnt to charcoal.

he who avoids or escapes from, paying tax to the government by illegal means; a tax-evader.

name of a female demon.

a wood piece that has become black, having been almost burnt.

a man whose entrance or presence is believed to bring or has coincidentally brought, bad-luck or evil; an inauspicious man.

the supposed quality or the mere, but repeated, coincidences that a person's entrance or presence bringing bad-luck or evil.

the plant Solanum indicum of Solanaceae family; Indian night shade.

its fruit; wild Indian brinjal.

to become black from excessive heat; to get charred.