noun
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a blowing bud of a flower.
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a gesture of hands, made by joining both the palms slightly hollowed, as a mark of obeissance, greeting, etc.
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(pros.) a verse of four lines, each line having two groups of three syllables each, the first having all the three long prosodic units while the other having two short ones followed by a long one (---, uu-).
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(dance.) a particular single-hand gesture, a stretching of the fingers and bending slightly or completely as to make the tips of the fingers touch each other.
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a gesture of the eyes, in which the eyelids are closed and the eye-balls are fixed.