ছল : (p. 375) chala deception, deceit, fraud; dissimulation; a hoax, a deceptive trick, a stratagem; course (কথাচ্ছলে); form, shape ('বৃষ্টিছলে মেঘ কাঁদে'); a beck ('কথা কয় ছলে'); a pretext, a pretence, a plea (প্রণামের ছলে, ক্রীড়াচ্ছলে); a fault or failing, a defect (ছল ধরা). ছল করা v. to hide one's real feelings, thoughts etc. to give a wrong idea of them, to feign. ছল ধরা v. to find fault with, to cavil. ছল পাতা v. to lay a trap. ̃চাতুরি n. fraud and deceit. ̃গ্রাহী a. fault-finding, cavilling. n. a faultfinder, a caviller. ̃ছুতো n. faults and pretexts, pretexts and pretences; a negligible fault or defect; excuses (to explain or defend one's conduct etc.) ছলেবলে adv. by force or fraud, by hook or by crook. 31)

(p. 377) chān̐t expressing the sound caused by casting something in hot oil or fat; sudden and sharp sensation of something alarming or disturbing (বুকের মধ্যে ছাঁত্ করে ওঠা). 8)

(p. 377) chān̐ci pure, genuine; indigenous (ছাঁচি কুমরো). ছাঁচি কুমড়ো, ছাঁচি পান, ছাঁচি বেত see কুমড়ো, পান and বেত respectively. 5)

(p. 377) chātā2 a fungus; a mushroom; mould, a dirty or morbid coating, rust, tartar. ছাতা-ধরা, ছাতা-পড়া a. mouldy, musty, having a dirty or morbid coating, rusted, having tartar. ব্যাঙের ছাতা a mushroom; a fungus. 21)

(p. 381) chucundarī the female musk-rat, the shemole. 18)

(p. 375) chamachama expressing an uncanny or eerie sensation. ছমছমে a. uncanny, eerie, weird. 27)

(p. 382) chēṣaṭṭi & a. sixty-six. 26)

(p. 382) chēn̐dā a hole, a cavity, a slot, a rent. ছেঁদা করা v. to make a hole, to bore, to perforate. 16)

(p. 382) chōm̐ẏā to touch. n. touch (ছোঁয়া লাগা) a. touched, contacted; touching (আকাশছোঁয়া). ̃চ n. (usu. dero.) touch, contact, contagion, influence. ̃চে a. contagious. ছুঁয়ি n. mutual touch or contact; impurity caused by touch or contact. ̃নো v. to cause to touch or be touched. ̃লেপা n. act of touching the untouchable; impurity caused by the touch of the so-called untouchable. 32)

(p. 377) chān̐cakāra a moulder. 4)

(p. 374) chaḍ়ā2 a rhyme (ছেলে-ভোলানো ছড়া = a nursery rhyme; গ্রাম্য-ছড়া = a folkrhyme); a set of things threaded together or arranged as if threaded, a string (গোটছড়া); a bunch, a cluster (একছড়া কলা); a spell of sprinkling or a solution for sprinkling (গোবর ছড়া). ছড়া কাটা v. to cap verses, to quote apt verses. 18)

(p. 382) chēdabindu point of intersection. 22)

(p. 375) chabi1 glow, lustre (রবিচ্ছবি); beauty, show (মুখচ্ছবি). 25)

(p. 379) chābbiśa twenty-six. ছাব্বিশে n. the twenty-sixth day of a month. a. (of days of a month) twenty-sixth. 10)

(p. 382) chēn̐caḍ়ānō to drag along the ground esp. forcibly. 12)

(p. 379) chāpā2 to lie or become covered or suppressed or concealed. a. covered, suppressed; concealed. ̃ছাপি n. concealment; act of keeping secret from one another; act of overflowing or going beyond bounds. a. overflowing (পুকুরে জল ছাপাছাপি হয়েছে). ̃নো v. to conceal, to hide; to overflow or go beyond bounds. a. concealed; overflowing (কূল-ছাপানো জল). 8)