(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. 206) karkaṭi, karkaṭī a kitchen vegetable akin to cucumber, its plant. 24)

(p. 231) kālaprabhāba influence of an age. 12)

(p. 194) kaṭaka an army, armed forces; encampment (of an army); tented accommodation (esp. of an army); the ridge of a hill; a bangle or an armlet. 13)

(p. 194) kaphi coffee. 162)

(p. 226) kāmina a woman labourer, a female labourer. 35)

(p. 206) karīṣa dried cow-dung; a cake of dried cow-dung used as fuel. 15)

(p. 238) kun̐dana, kōn̐dana act of turning (a thing) on a lathe; act of carving; act of rushing forward to attack or beat; act of skipping or frisking; act of bragging. 5)

(p. 262) krōśa a measure of length or distance equal to 8 cubits or a little more than two miles or three kilometres. 46)

(p. 219) kāchānō to draw near; to approach; to step up; to impend, to become imminent. 7)

(p. 215) kān̐kalāsa the chameleon; (fig.) a person who is reduced to skeleton, a very lean person, one who is only skin and bone. 34)

(p. 228) kālatraẏa the three ages past, present and future. 70)

(p. 257) kōdalānō to dig or to dig up with a spade. 11)

(p. 248) kusantāna a bad or wicked child; an unworthy son or daughter. 4)

(p. 262) krīḍ়ka one who plays; one who exhibits a show. n. a player; a sportsman; a showman. 28)