(p. 99) ākuñcana slight contraction or shrivelling or wrinkle or curl or contortion. 20)

(p. 114) ānīta brought; fetched. 25)

(p. 107) āthibithi, āthēbēthē, āthēbyathē in a confused hurry, helter-skelter. 48)

(p. 115) āpōśa compromise. আপোশ করা v. to compromise, to strike out a compromise; to settle amicably. ̃রফা, ̃মীমাংসা n. amicable settlement, compromise. আপোশে adv. amicably; by arrangement. 60)

(p. 95) ā1 the second vowel of the Bengali alphabet. 2)

(p. 126) āśraẏī one who adopts or takes shelter; sheltered. 129)

(p. 107) ādha, ādhā & a. half. আধকপালি, আধকপালে n. hemicrania, migraine, megrim. আধখেঁচড়া a. half-done; done perfunctorily; disordered; bungled. আধথালা a. half-plate. আধপাকা a. halfripe; partly ripe. আধপাগলা a. crack-brained, cranky, having a screw loose, mentally defective, crazy. n. one with a screw loose, a crack-brain, a crank. আধপেটা a. sufficient to satisfy only half the hunger; half-fed. adv. to the extent of being half-fed. আধপোড়া a. half-burned; half-roasted; halfbaked. আধবয়সী, আধবুড়ো a. middleaged. fem. আধবুড়ি । আধমনি a. containing half a maund (of things). আধমনি কৈলাস a gluttonous person, one who eats too much; one who is capable of eating too much. আধমরা a. half-dead; almost dead, more dead than alive. আধসিদ্ধ a. parboiled. আধসের n. (now obs.) half a seer. আধহাতি a. half a cubit long. 90)

(p. 107) ātithya hospitality; that with which a host entertains a guest. ̃গ্রহণ, ̃স্বীকার n. acceptance of one's hospitality as a guest. আতিথ্য গ্রহণ করা, আতিথ্য স্বীকার করা v. to become a guest (of). 23)

(p. 107) ādhidaibika supernatural; fortuitous; pertaining to natural disasters such as flood, famine etc.; elemental. 99)

(p. 98) ām̐śānō to harden by boiling in liquefied sugar, molasses, treacle, etc. a. thus boiled. 5)

(p. 126) āśbāsa heartening with hope or promise or assurance or consolation or confidence etc. ̃ন n. heartening with hope or promise or assurance or consolation or confidence etc. ̃বাণী n. words that hearten with hope or promise or assurance or consolation or confidence etc. 124)

(p. 125) ārātrika (act of) greeting a deity by waving a lamp, thurible, incenser etc. before his or her face. 3)

(p. 115) āntḥprādēśika inter-provincial; (in a federal state like India) inter-state. 7)

(p. 104) āchān̐kā unstrained, unfiltrated. 9)

(p. 123) āraṇi whirlpool; eddy. 32)