the 24-hour period (usu. From midnight to midnight); a day.

(in comp.) a country or territory.

a kind of plant.

made or consisting of reeds.

a metal plate nailed to the hooves of oxen, horses, etc. for protection; a shoe.

a payment made or to be made by the players of the game of chance to the person who runs the club.

the hollow stalk of some plants as lotus.

any of the tube-like structures in the body as windpipe, oesophagus, etc.

any hollow tube of metal, glass, rubber, etc.

the lotus flower.

an apparatus for making a hole in the ears of elephants.

a kind of tall, slender grass (genus Phragmites), with plume-like inflorescences, growing in wet or marshy land; reed.

loveliness; charmingness.

any decapod crustacean of the suborder Brachyura, having the eyes on short stalks and a short, broad, more or less flattened body, the abdomen being small and folded under the thorax; a crab.

a tube or pipe of clay, concrete, metal, plastic, for conveying water, gas, oil, etc.

any blood vessel; a vein.