noun
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a touching or being touched; a physical contact; a touch.
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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.
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the state of being associated; association; companionship.
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anything that comes into contact.
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a spreading (of a disease) by direct contact; communication (of diseases).
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any departure from health; a disease; sickness.
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a gift; a donation.
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a kind of stone believed to convert any base metal into gold by its physical contact.
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air or wind.
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the sky.
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sexual intercourse; coitus.
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a man who keeps close and secret watch on another or others.
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(buddh.) knowledge received through sensual organs.
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(gram.) any of the classified consonants (from ಕ to ಮ).
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any consonant pronounced by complete stopping of the outgoing breath as with the lips, tongue or velum; a stop.