(p. 529) dh the nineteenth letter of the Bengali alphabet. 2)

(p. 532) dhānaśrī, dhānaśi an Indian musical mode. 76)

(p. 532) dhāna paddy, rice (আমন ধান); measure of weight (= nearly 1 grain). আউস ধান autumn rice. আমন ধান winter rice. বীজ ধান n. paddy-seed. ধান কাটা v. to reap or harvest paddy-crop. ধান কাঁড়া same as ধান ভানা । ধান কাড়ানো v. to plough a paddy-field in order to remove weeds. ধান ঝাড়া v. to thresh paddy. ধান দিয়ে লেখাপড়া শেখা (fig.) to spend little for one's education; (fig.) to receive indifferent or scant education. ধান নেড়ে দেওয়া v. to re-sow or transplant paddyshoots in well-arranged lines; to stir paddy when it is husked by a husking pedal. ধান বোনা v. to sow paddy-seeds. ধানভাঙা, ধানভানা v. to husk paddy. ধানভাঙা কল a husking machine. ধান ভানতে শিবের গীত (fig.) an irrelevant talk or digression (often a ludicrous one). ধান মাড়ানো v. to thresh or separate paddy (from straw by making cows walk upon it). ধান রোয়া v. to transplant paddy-shoots. কত ধানে কত চাল (fig.) actual state or correct information, knowledge of what comes out of what; (fig.) consequence. পাকা ধানে মই দেওয়া (fig.) to do (one) irreparable harm; (fig.) to blast one's hopes when they are about to be realized. ̃খেত same as ধানজমি । ̃গাছ n. a paddy-plant. ধানগাছের তক্তা (fig.) a plank of grass, an impossible thing. ̃চারা n. a paddy-shoot. ̃জমি n. a paddy-field, a paddy-land. ̃দুর্বা n. paddy-grains and grass (used as auspicious articles in blessing). 75)

(p. 529) dhanātmaka (phys. & math.) positive. 15)

(p. 542) dhukadhuki a locket or pendent worn on the bosom in a necklace. 16)

(p. 543) dhūmākāra shaped like or looking like smoke, fume, vapour, gas etc. 29)

(p. 545) dhōẏā to wash; to cleanse or scrub or scour with water; to wash and bleach; (of rivers) to inundate. a. washed; cleansed or scrubbed or scoured with water; washed and bleached. ধোয়ানি n. water or other liquids with which something has been washed; alluvial deposit; dregs. ধোয়ানো v. to cause to wash; to cause to cleanse or scrub or scour with water; to cause to wash and bleach. ধোয়া-পাকলা n. act of washing and scrubbing or scouring. 21)

(p. 532) dhān̐dhā dazzlement of sight; optical illusion; confusion, bewilderment, daze; an intricate problem; a riddle, a puzzle; a maze; a tricky but interesting question or problem, a poser. v. (usu. in poet.) to dazzle the sight of, to have one's sight dazzled, to daze. ধাঁধাঁর উত্তর the solution of a puzzle. ধাঁধাঁ দেওয়া v. to give a puzzle for solution; to hoodwink; to confound; to bamboozle. ধাঁধা লাগা v. to have one's sight dazzled; to be dazed; to be confused or puzzled. ধাঁধা লাগানো v. to daze the sight of; to daze; to confound; to bewilder, to puzzle; to hoodwink; to dazzle. ধাঁধানো same as ধাঁধা লাগানো 64)

(p. 545) dhēidhēi the style or cue-words of the 'tandab' (তান্ডব) dance, the dance of extensive annihilation; a wild dance or movement. 4)

(p. 529) dhaniṣṭhā (astro.) the twenty-third of the twenty-seven stars according to Hindu astronomy. 28)

(p. 545) dhrubāṅka (alg.) a constant quantity, a constant.

(p. 540) dhāraṇā conception; realization or comprehension; feeling or impression; supposition, surmise; a notion; an idea; belief or faith; remembrance or memory; intelligence; rapt attention. ধারণা করা v. to conceive; to realize or comprehend; to feel, to have an impression (of); to suppose, to guess; to form or have an idea (of); to believe; to think. ̃তীত a. inconceivable; incomprehensible; (loos.) unthought of, unexpected. ̃শক্তি n. ability to conceive an idea, power of comprehension; intelligence; retentive capacity or power. 18)

(p. 543) dhula a measure of land (=1/2 কাঠা); (poet. or dial.) dust. 23)

(p. 542) dhībara a fisherman (by trade or caste), a fisher. fem. ধীবরী n. a fisher-woman; a fishwife, a fish-woman. 8)

(p. 532) dhāppā a bluff, a hoax. ধাপ্পা দেওয়া v. to bluff, to hoax. ̃বাজ a. (given to) bluffing or hoaxing. n. a bluffer or a hoaxer. ̃বাজি n. practice of bluffing or hoaxing. ধাপ্পাবাজি করা v. to practise bluffing or hoaxing; to bluff or hoax. 88)