a piece of wood or stone that is tapering from a thick back to a thin edge, used as a wedge.

the grass Cymbopogan schoenanthus (= Andropogon schoenanthus) of Poaceae family.

a hard, bivalve outer covering, as of mollusc, insect, egg, etc.; a shell.

the hard shell of a coconut covering the kernel; coconut-shell.

the top bony top portion of the skull.

a small chest or box with a lid, as for jewels; a casket.

a thin piece of wood, bone, etc., made by splitting or breaking; a sliver; a splinter.

a thin and sharp piece of wood; a splint.

a kind of musical instrument.

the outer covering of anything.

a single cluster of banana fruits.

a shell or vessel having a hollow with a pointed mouth, used to feed milk to babies.

not having any taste; tasteless.

not interesting; not lively; boring; vapid.

the quality of being tasteless; tastelessness.

(fig.) the quality or condition of being uninteresting, boring; dullness; vapidity.

a mark, impression made by imprinting; an imprint.

(fig.) an impression or effect produced, on another's or others mind, by one's influence, manner, knowledge, etc.

a kind of medicinal plant .

a flexible strip of wood or other material, bent by a string stretched between its ends, for shooting arrows; a bow.

a part of the circumference of a circle; an arc.

a bow or arc of prismatic colours appearing in the heavens opposite the sun and caused by the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays in drops of rain.

the ninth sign of the zodiac; the Sagittarius.

(astrol.) a condition in which the positions of the nine planets are distributed in all the seven houses from the tenth to fourth houses of the zodiac.

(rhet.) a kind of tricky composition.

a kind of animal the skin of which is processed and used in making percussion instruments.

the space, amount or degree to which a thing extends; extent.

a small, flat piece of stone, used in games by children.

a relatively longer step or stride.

the act of leaping; a jumping.

a unit of linear measure, equal to the length of a relatively longer step or stride of a person (this unit is subjective and not a standard one).

the pushing of a marble, in a children's play, with the back of the palm with fingers bent.