a pale-yellow, non-metallic chemical element found in crystalline or amorphous form, which burns with a blue flame and a stifling odour and is used in vulcanizing rubber and in making matches, paper, gunpowder, insecticides, sulphuric acid, etc. (symbol, S; at. wt., 32.064; at. no., 16; sp. gr. 2.07); sulphur; brimstone.

a female Jaina ascetic.

a solid or hollow sphere, esp. for use in a game; a ball.

a mendicant or a beggar.

a deep, broad ditch dug around a fortress or castle, and often filled with water, for protection against invasion; a moat.

the state of having lost colour, freshness, strength, etc.; listlessness.

a fleshy, enlarged, vertical, underground stem, usu. having annual segments with a bud at the tip, thin external scale leaves, and roots at the base, differing from bulbs in having much more stem tissue and fewer scale leaves; a corm.

a solid or hollow sphere, esp. for use in a game; a ball.

a cloth case filled with cotton, feathers, down, foam rubber, air, etc., used as a support, as for the head in sleeping; a pillow; ಕಂದುಕದಾಗಮ kandukadāgama the systematised learning of the games played with balls.

= ಕಂದುಕ.

the state or condition of being deficient; deficiency.

a physical or moral defect; a stain; a flaw; a blemish.

an obstacle or difficulty; a hurdle.