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a folded layer (as of a cloth, paper, etc.).
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a hollowed place.
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a cup made of a leaf.
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anything that is enveloped (as packet) by a leaf or leaves.
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a a cup-like container or vessel that is shallow.
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hollowed palms joined together facing upwards (to or as if to receive something).
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a hinged or detatchable cover (of a box, tin, bottle, etc.); a lid.
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a cloth worn about the loins; a loin-cloth.
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either of the two movable folds of flesh that cover and uncover the front of the eyeball; an eye-lid.
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the newly put forth ear of a plant; an ear that is in the very early stage of its development.
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a small box or chest, as for valuables; a casket.
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the hoof of a horse.
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the hard, aromatic seed, of medium-sized, evergreen tree Myristica fragrans of Myristiaceae family, used as a spice and whose covering yields the spice mace; nutmeg.
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either of the two external openings of the nose; a nostril.
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a container made of a substance that can resist great heat, for melting, fusing or calcining ores, metals, etc.; a crucible.
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a particular method followed in preparing medicines by boiling in a crucible.
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a single layer of mud, cement or concrete, in building up a wall.
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the act or process of purifying gold by melting in a crucible.
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(pros.) a metre in which each line has twelve syllables.
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ಪುಟಕ್ಕೆ ಹಾಕು puṭakke hāku to melt gold (or other metal) and purify; 2. to burn anything in a crucible; 3. (fig.) to subject (something or a person) to a test as to bring out the intrinsic value, genuineness, worth, etc.; ಪುಟ ಮಾಡು puṭa māḍu to make (fire) burn brighter (as by blowing air on it); ಪುಟ ಇಳಿಸು puṭa iḷisu to distil or produce something by distillation.