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- name of a region including the present Bengal and northern part of Orissa in Eastern India.
- (rhet.) a literary style that is fraught with long and intertwined words, showy and artificially rhetoric sentences.
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- the chief of a village.
- a caste the main occupation of the members of which is agriculture and farming.
- a member of that caste.
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- of the home; domestic; homely.
- having or living in, a house of one's own.
- living without depending on another.
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- a flat, coarse fabric made of straw used as a floor covering or to sit on; a straw mat.
- the outskirts of a city or town.
- a time; period of time; a season.
- the hip and loins; the hollow above the hips.
- the fleshy side of a person or animal between the ribs and the hip; the flank.
- the dead body of a person; corpse.
- a place for the burial or cremation of the dead bodies; a cemetry; a crematory.
- a portable framework on which a corpse is carried.
- a long, broad, thick wooden board; a plank.
- a plant lasting or living only one year or one season.
- The grass Saccharum sara (= S. munja) of Poaceae family.
- plentifulness; bountifulness; excessiveness; abundance.
- either of the flat surfaces alongside the forehead, in front of each ear of an elephant; the temples.
- either of the two bones or bony parts that hold the teeth and frame the mouth in most vertebrates; the jaw.
- a pointed straight missile to be shot from a bow; an arrow.
- a social convention carried on by tradition and any violation of which is disapproved by the social system; a custom.
- the fine, dust-like mass of grains that are produced in the anthers or microspore sacs of seed plants, containing the male sexual cells (gametophytes) of the plant; pollen.
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- a kind of tax (now obs.).
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- having a sharp or strong taste or smell, esp. so as to produce a pricking sensation; pungent; acrid.
- bitter; virulent.
- that burns or corrodes organic tissue; caustic.
- sarcastic, biting (said of words, remarks etc.); reproaching, abusing harshly.
- disagreeable; unpleasant (said of behaviour).
- hot; impetuous; acting without reasoning.
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- the part of the human body below the ribs and above the hips, usu. of smaller circumference than these; the narrower middle part of the normal human figure; the waist.
- either of the two fleshy protuberances on the lower rear part of the human body; the posterior; the buttocks.
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- to stir, beat or shake (milk or cream) in a churn.
- to put or pass through a sieve or cloth, etc.; to sieve.
- to rub pieces of wood (of Acacia suma) to produce fire (as for a religious sacrifice).
- to give circular shape to by rotating against a tool, as in a lathe; to turn.
- to cut, carve, chisel, cast, weld, mould, etc. into statues, figures, from wood, stone, etc.; to sculpture.
- (fig.) to feel deep, acute sorrow or distress; to grieve.
- to cause to feel acute sorrow or distress.
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- a place on the bank of a river or tank, where steps are provided for people to go down to have bath.
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- difficulty - a) the condition or fact of being difficult; b) something that is difficult, as a hard problem or an obstacle or objection.