(p. 206) karitakarmā efficient and industrious; gogetting; smart. 12)

(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. 208) kalatra wife. 48)

(p. 204) karakara expressing: the sound of crushing or rubbing grits or of chewing hard and crisp things; the sound of scraping (as the pulp of a coconut); scratching sensation; restlessness; pain; burning sensation. করকরা, করকরানো v. to give a sensation of scratching or paining or burning. করকরানি n. scratching or paining or burning sensation. করকরে a. gritty; giving out a sound of or as of crushing or rubbing grits; brand new (করকরে নোট). 24)

(p. 228) kārṣāpaṇa ancient value in silver equal to 128 cowries (কড়ি). 49)

(p. 253) kēna why. n. one of the books of the Upanishads. ̃না conj. because, since. 15)

(p. 231) kālākāla proper and improper time; auspicious and inauspicious time. 33)

(p. 216) kān̐cāhaluda undried turmeric. 7)

(p. 261) kkaṇa the jingling sound of a stringed musical instrument when played on or of metals (esp. metal ornaments) clashing together. ক্কণন n. act of making this sound; jingle; jingling. ক্কণিত a. jingled; jingling. ক্কণিত করা v. to jingle. 12)

(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. 240) kupitā1 of কুপিত । 67)

(p. 208) kasabā a large and prosperous village with many advantages of a town (cp. township); a suburb.

(p. 220) kātukutu tickling (with the hand esp. in the arm-pit); titillation. কাতুকুতু দেওয়া v. to tickle; to titillate. 58)

(p. 228) kārakita thoroughly equipped or made fit. n. cultivation. কারকিত করা v. to equip thoroughly; to undertake all necessary arrangements to make (anything) fit; to cultivate or dress (land). 9)

(p. 239) kucakuca1 expressing; glaze or brightness of the black colour. কুচকুচে a. (of the black colour) glazy or bright and deep. কুচকুচে কালো করা v. to make glazily or brightly black, to japan. 2)