a touching or being touched; a physical contact; a touch.

a mode or manner of religious initiation in which the spiritual teacher touches the head of a person being initiated and symbolically admits him to the fraternity.

the state of being associated; association; companionship.

anything that comes into contact.

a spreading (of a disease) by direct contact; communication (of diseases).

any departure from health; a disease; sickness.

a gift; a donation.

a kind of stone believed to convert any base metal into gold by its physical contact.

air or wind.

the sky.

sexual intercourse; coitus.

a man who keeps close and secret watch on another or others.

(buddh.) knowledge received through sensual organs.

any consonant pronounced by complete stopping of the outgoing breath as with the lips, tongue or velum; a stop.