কষা২ : (p. 208) kaṣā2 astringent; tight; strict, severe; niggardly, close-fisted; constipative (কষা ধাত); (of meat, fish etc.) signed in oil or fat and with spices. v. to try (gold etc.) on a streak-plate; to work out (a mathematical sum); to calculate (price etc.); to singe (meat, fish etc.) in oil or fat and with spices; to tighten; to bind tightly; to tan (hides); to make astringent. ̃কষি n. unswerving enforcement of rule, law etc; rigour, strictness; act of tightening; tugging and counter-tugging; higgling (দরকষাকষি); strained state, estrangement (মনকষাকষি). কষাকষি করা v. to enforce strictness or rigour; to tighten; to contest or try laboriously. দর কষাকষি করা v. to higgle, to chaffer. মন কষাকষি করা v. to estrange oneself (from); to quarrel (with). কষানো v. to singe meat; to tan (hides). কষাটে a. slightly astringent; (fig.) divested of taste or flavour; (fig.) loathsome, disgusting. কষা মাংস n. singed meat; meat cooked with oil and spices. 106)

(p. 240) kudṛṣṭi an evil eye, a sinister look; (esp. in astrol.) an evil or unfavourable aspect or influence. কুদৃষ্টি দেওয়া v. to cast an evil eye (on); to influence unfavourably. 46)

(p. 243) kulācārya the hereditary religious guide or preceptor of a family; a matrimonial match-maker versed in genealogy. 77)

(p. 194) kaṇṭhya (gr.) guttural. ̃বর্ণ n. (gr.) a guttural letter, a guttural. 76)

(p. 215) kāiṭa dregs or dross or less of any liquid. 18)

(p. 261) kyāśabāksa money-box, (loos.) a cashbox.

(p. 243) kubja humpbacked, hunchbacked. fem. কুব্জা, কুব্জী । কুব্জ লোক a hunchback. 14)

(p. 234) kiṇba leaven, ferment; sin. 19)

(p. 225) kāpuruṣa a coward, a poltroon; a faint-hearted or hen-hearted person. a. cowardly, poltroon; faint-hearted, henhearted. ̃তা, ̃ত্ব n. cowardice; cowardliness; faint-heartedness. কাপুরুষোচিত a. cowardly, befitting a coward or a chicken-hearted person. 12)

(p. 261) kyāṅāru the kangaroo. 21)

(p. 204) kaẏētabēla a shelled fruit with sour pulp akin to the wood-apple. 17)

(p. 226) kābila competent, fit; grown up, of age. 2)

(p. 253) kēẏūra an ornament for the arm, an armlet. 36)

(p. 220) kādā gluey mud, slime. a. full of gluey mud, slimy (পথ কাদা হয়েছে). কাদা করা v. to make muddy or slimy, to muddy; to make turbid. ̃খোঁচা n. the snipe. ̃টে a. slimy; viscous; full of gluey mud; muddy. ̃ময় a. full of mud, muddy; covered all over with mud. ̃মাখা a. smeared with mud; covered all over with mud. 66)

(p. 194) kapi1 the monkey. 146)

(p. 219) kājari an Indian folk-dance or its accompanying music. 14)