a brilliant, hexagonally crystalline mineral, silicon dioxide, SiO2, (with principal constituent being ordinary sand), most often in a colourless, transparent form, but also sometimes in coloured varieties used as semiprecious stones; quartz.

a piece of any stone with sharp edge or edges.

a stone slab planted at the place where a dead person is buried.

the plant Grewia flavescens (= G. G. pilosa) of Tiliaceae family.

= ಕೃಕರ.

a melodious blend of different tunes (as of different birds).

loud or confused shouting; din of voices; clamor.

= ಕರ್ಗಲ್ಲು.

the season characterised by much rainfall; the rainy season.

becoming lean gradually; losing much flesh or weight day by day.

the plant Ocimum gratissimum of Lamiaceae family; shrubby basil.

the plant Grewia aspera of Tiliaceae family.

the tree Aquilaria agallocha of Thymelaeaceae family.

its wood.

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

the plant Grewia villosa of Tiliaceae family.

a very hard, black, and undressed stone.

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

a white horse.

the last point to be reached by bullocks in a running race; a stone planted at that point.

that which is burnt to charcoal.

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

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

a stone at the boundary or main entrnce of a village.