(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. 374) chakaḍ়ā-nakaḍ়ā utter disregard or neglect, utter disorder; utter waste or wastefulness. a. lying at sixes and sevens, lying pell-mell; utterly neglected or wasted. ছকড়া-নকড়া করা v. to waste by utter disregard or neglect; to waste utterly; to throw at sixes and sevens. 6)

(p. 382) chōhārā dried date, currant. 45)

(p. 382) chōkarā (usu. dero.) a young man; a lad; a boy; a greenhorn; a boy servant; a serving-boy; a page; an underage employee. a. tender-aged, young; young and inexperienced. 33)

(p. 382) chōn̐cānō to wash the posterior after evacuation. 30)

(p. 377) chānda2 (poet. obs.) manner, style, fashion ('বিনাইয়া নানা ছান্দে').

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

(p. 381) chun̐cō the mole, the musk-rat; (fig. & dero.) a mean person. ˜মি n. meanness, baseness, rascality; pettiness, little-mindedness. ছুঁচো মেরে হাত গন্ধ করা (fig.) to sue a beggar and get a louse. ছুঁচোর কেত্তন (fig.) disgusting noise, hullabaloo, a state of noisy confusion, bedlam let loose. 13)

(p. 381) chimachāma smart and tidy, spruce, spick and span. 5)

(p. 377) chān̐ṭā to cut, to cut off, to clip, to trim, to crop, to lop, to prune; (rare) to husk; to exclude (দল থেকে ছাঁটা); to retrench; to cut short, to reduce (খরচ ছাঁটা, গল্প ছাঁটা). a. clipped, trimmed, cropped, lopped, pruned; husked, husking; excluded; retrenched; reduced. ̃ই n. cutting off or clipping or trimming or cropping or pruning; exclusion; retrenchment; reduction; scrap. ছাঁটাই করা v. to cut off, to clip, to trim, to prune; to exclude; to retrench; to reduce. ̃প্রস্তাব n. a cut motion. ̃নো v. to cause to cut off or clip or trim or prune; to cause to be cut off or clipped or trimmed or pruned. ছেঁটে ফেলা v. to cut off, to clip, to trim, to lop; to exclude. 7)

(p. 377) chān̐ca1 eaves (of a roof or thatch); a pent-house. ̃তলা n. the space below the overhanging roof or thatch. 2)

(p. 375) chadma feigned, disguised, assumed, pretended; counterfeit, faked. ̃নাম n. assumed name, pen-name, pseudonym. ̃বেশ n. a disguise. ছদ্মবেশ ধারণ করা v. to disguise oneself, to assume a disguise. ̃বেশী a. disguised. fem. ̃বেশিনী । ছদ্মবেশী লোক an imposter; a person incognito. ̃বেশে adv. in disguise, incognito. 16)

(p. 382) chyān̐ka expressing the sound of anything falling into hot oil or fat. ছ্যাঁকছ্যাঁক adv. expressing or indicating a slight temperature (গা ছ্যাঁক ছ্যাঁক করছে). ছ্যাঁকছেঁকে a. expressing or indicating a slight temperature. 46)

(p. 375) chandōbandha versification; metrical rhythm. 22)

(p. 380) chinimini act of playing ducks and drakes; (fig.) reckless use or expenditure, squandering. ছিনিমিনি খেলা v. to play ducks and drakes; (fig.) to use or spend recklessly, to squander, to fritter away. 13)