a firm, fine-grained earth, plastic when wet, composed chiefly of hydrous aluminum silicate minerals, used in the manufacture of bricks, pottery, and other ceramics.

the egg of a head-louse.

to comb the hair to remove nits and lice.

to collect, accumulate together.

very small; tiny; diminutive.

of little thickness; thin.

to be separated lengthwise into two or more parts; to be split along the grain or length.

a pawn used in the dice-game.

a piece or pawn used in chess, having very limited movements.

a particoloured thing.

air or wind.

something written in endorsing, at the end of a writing; a note; an endorsement.

= ಶಿರಾ.

the part of the body, in humans, above the neck or corresponding part in other animals; the head.

the front portion (of anything); top; summit; pinnacle; acme.

the top of a tree.

the root of a pepper plant.

a kind of large serpent.

ಶಿರದೊಳಾನ್ śiradoḷān to carry out (an order, command, instruction) faithfully and obidiently.