(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. 204) kaẏēda a prison, a gaol, a jail (কয়েদে থাকা); imprisonment, duress, confinement (কয়েদ হওয়া). a. imprisoned, jailed, confined. কয়েদ করা v. to imprison; to confine. কয়েদ থাকা v. to be in duress; to be in prison or in confinement. কয়েদ হওয়া v. to be sentenced to imprisonment. ̃খানা n. a guard-room, a guard-house, lock-up, prison. কয়েদি n. a prisoner, a convict. n. imprisoned; confined. 18)

(p. 248) kṛtti skin or hide of beasts; skin of human beings, epidermis, cutis. ̃ক n. cuticle. ̃কা n. (astro.) the Pleiads, the Pleiades; (myth.) any of the six nymphs who nursed Kartikeya (কার্তিকেয়). ̃বাস n. a name of Shiva (শিব) who wears a tiger's skin. ̃বাসী a. composed by Krittibas (কৃত্তিবাস) who rendered the Sanskrit Ramayana into Bengali. 56)

(p. 261) kyān̐ka expressing the sound of kicking or striking or of excitement or pain or a surly utterance. ক্যাঁক-ক্যাঁক করা v. to grumble or rebuke (usu. repeatedly) in a surly manner; to whine. 14)

(p. 240) kutrāpi anywhere. 41)

(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) kadama2 a foot; a leg; a step; (of horses) trot. কদমে চলা v. to trot. 98)

(p. 248) kuharaṇa act of cooing; the note of a cuckoo. 17)

(p. 238) kugaṭhana a misshaped or uncouth figure. a. misshaped; uncouth; shabby. 20)

(p. 248) kṛtāñjali having one's hands folded; in folded hands; having cupped one's palms. ̃পুটে adv. with one's palms formed into a cup, having cupped one's palms. ̃পূর্বক adv. with folded hands; having cupped one's palms (in supplication etc.). 43)

(p. 262) kraldasī the sky and the earth, heaven and earth. 6)

(p. 256) kōkēna cocaine. 20)

(p. 232) kāśmīri of Kashmir. n. an inhabitant of Kashmir; a shawl made in Kashmir. 42)

(p. 194) kaṭōrā a goblet. 29)

(p. 225) kāpaṭika deceitful, fraudulent; hypocritical; sly. 6)