any substance or substances used in treating disease or illness; medicament; remedy; medicine.

a substance fed along with food, that acts as a slow-poison.

anything or means that relieves from pain, distress, agony, harm, etc.

a means (as a mystical word, formula, incantation, etc.) used to bring a peson under spell.

a substance that can explode, as gunpowder.

a usu. small paper cylinder that contains an explosive and an attached fuse and makes a sharp noise when exploded: used at celebrations, etc.; a fire-cracker.

ಮದ್ದರೆ maddare = ಮದ್ದಿಕ್ಕು - 2; ಮದ್ದಿನ ತಿಲಕ maddina tilaka a thin, vertical mark made on the forehead with the paste of a substance which is supposed to have the power to mesmorise; ಮದ್ದು ತಾಗು maddu tāgu (fig.) (a means, trick, etc.) to prove to be effective; ಮದ್ದು ಮಾಡು maddu māḍu = ಮದ್ದಿಕ್ಕು - 2; 2. to find a means to counter, win over, achieve (something); ಮದ್ದುಹಾಕು maddu hāku = ಮದ್ದಿಕ್ಕು - 2.

to work (dough, clay, etc. with the hands) into a uniform and homogeneous mixture by pressing, folding, and stretching and make it a pliable mass.

to give a massage to; to massage.

to make (another's mind) smooth, favourable inclined towrds.

any of the storeys above the ground floor of a building; upstairs.

a beloved man.

knowing no evil; without guile or cunning; artless; simple; innocent.

having or showing unaffected simplicity of nature or absence of artificiality; unsophisticated; innocent.

a man lacking required knowledge; an ignorant man.

a simple, artless, innocent man.

a handsome man.

= ಮುದ್ದೆ2.

inspiring love or affection; lovable.

pleasing or attractive in a delicate or graceful way (as dif. from having striking beauty).

pleasing to hear.

a pampering; love; affection.

the act or an instance of kissing; a kiss.

tolerant behaviour that leads or has led to lenience and undue freedom.

the quality of pleasing or being attractive in a delicate or graceful way rather than through striking beauty; prettiness.

a child's play that is attractive in this manner.

a beloved person.

the lip or lips.

that which was or is wished for.

a ball or roundish mass of food.

a lump of wet mud, sandalwood paste.

(gen.) food.

a kind of eatable.

(fig.) the result obtained by adding numbers or quantities; total.

a shapeless mass.

a peg, by turning of which the threads on a loom is tightened or loosened.