(p. 251) kēkā a peacock's call. কেকী n. the peacock. 36)

(p. 216) kān̐ci2 scissors. 9)

(p. 237) kīla, kīlaka a bolt; a peg; a stake; a wedge; a nail; a probe. কীলকাকার a. wedge-shaped, cuneal, cuneate; (of alphabetical letters) cuneiform, cuneatic. কীলকলিপি n. cuneiform writing. 6)

(p. 219) kāchā1 a piece of new and unbleached cloth worn round the neck by a Hindu mourning the loss of any of his parents or a similar person. 4)

(p. 261) kauśikī (in Hindu mythology) a form of the primordial Female Energy. 9)

(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. 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) kāra3 trouble, difficulty; a fix. কারে পড়া, কারে আটকানো v. to get into trouble, to be in the soup; to be in a fix. কারে পড়ে সাধুতা দেখানো to make a virtue of necessity. 6)

(p. 194) kabaja2 a charm, a spell; an amulet, a trinket, a talisman.

(p. 239) kuñci a measure of grains (= 8 handfuls). 28)

(p. 220) kājiẏā quarrel; brawl, wrangle. 5)

(p. 231) kālaśōdhana equation of time. 25)

(p. 240) kuḍ়āla, kuḍ়āli an axe. 30)

(p. 261) kyāmbisa canvas. 26)

(p. 251) kṛntaka incising; incisive; incisory. n. an incisor. কৃন্তন n. cutting. কৃন্তনিকা n. a cutting instrument. 4)