a piece of chalk, colored or not, used for drawing, writing on a board, etc.; a chalk-piece.

any medicated black preparation for the eyes; a black-eyewash; collyrium.

a big box or a metal container for storing foods or other articles for a time.

the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses (esp. to the sight) or pleasurably exalts the mind; beauty.

a way or method in which something is done or happens; mode or fashion of procedure; manner.

a place where the chiefs of a village meet for deliberation.

the act of troubling or causing minor irritation; an annoying.

(dial.) an unripe jack fruit (the fruit of Atrocarpus integra).

fine soot produced by the incomplete combustion of oils and other forms of carbon; lampblack.

a medicated eye-wash; collyrium.

anything that is black.

the black earth; a black soil region.

a substance that is solid (not a liquid or gas); a solid.

a round vessel of any size, made of earthenware, with a small mouth and a smaller neck, used for holding liquids; a pot.

a pot-shaped, round wooden piece placed between the top of a pillar and a beam of a building.