a good, nutritious food given or prescribed for nourishment of the body.

to chew slowly steadily (a piece of crisp food), with a crunching sound.

to peck and pick up with the beak.

the condition or quality of being dwarfish or having stunted growth; dwarfishness.

to undergo sufferings, pain, agony; to grieve.

any of large gruiform wading birds of Gruidae family, with very long legs and neck, and a long, straight bill; a crane.

to reduce (oneself) in size; to shrink; to contract (oneself).

to bend (from one's straight position).

to feel dejected; to cast down in spirit; to get disheartened; to be depressed.

a water-jar.

a festival observed on the full moon-day of the 12th month of a lunar year, in which a man, dressed as a woman runs on the roads carrying on his head jars filled with water without holdig them.

a folk dance prevailing in some parts of Tamiḷ Nāḍu and Kēraḷa.

ಕರಗದಮ್ಮ karagadamma a female deity of ಕರಗ.

a beggar's alms-vessel.

pellets of frozen rain falling in showers from cumulonimbus clouds; hail.

the climber Grewia orientalis of Tiliaceae plant.

to be or become charred with excess heat or by burning.