(p. 532) dhānāipānāi irrelevant talk or excuse. 77)

(p. 545) dhōbikhānā the washerman's house, the laundry. 20)

(p. 532) dhastādhasti a scuffle or tussle or fray; a hard effort or struggle (অনেক ধস্তাধস্তির পর মাইনে বাড়ল). ধস্তাধস্তি করা v. to scuffle; to try or struggle hard. 54)

(p. 542) dhukadhuka, dhukapuka expressing: the sound of palpitating or throbbing. ধুকধুক করা, ধুকপুক করা v. to palpitate, to throb. ধুকধুকানি n. palpitation, throbbing. 15)

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

(p. 543) dhustura, dhustūra the thorn-apple, the datura. ধুস্তুরী, ধুস্তূরী a. daturic, atropinic. 25)

(p. 532) dhāndā, dhāndhā dazzlement of sight; optical illusion; confusion, dazed condition; search (চাকরির ধান্দা, টাকার ধান্দা); cause of demand (পেটের ধান্ধা). ̃বাজ a. too self-seeking and opportunist. n. a self-seeker and opportunist. 81)

(p. 532) dharmādhikaraṇa, dharmādhiṣṭhāna a court of justice; a judge. 20)

(p. 543) dhupa1 sunlight, the sun. 13)

(p. 532) dhātu a metal; a mineral; mettle (লোকটি শক্ত ধাতুতে গড়া); temperament, disposition (শিল্পিদের ধাতুই আলাদা); (physiol.) any one of the four constituent fluids of the body, a humour; semen, sperm (ধাতুদৌর্বল্য); any one of the principal constituents of the physical world (namely, earth, water, fire, air, and atmosphere), an element; (gr.) a verbal root. অবরধাতু a base metal. বরধাতু a noble metal. ̃কল্প a. metalloid. ̃ক্ষয় n. (passive) loss of seminal fluid, seminal emission; (rare) abrasion of metal. ̃গত a. temperamental; constitutional, characteristic; seminal; (rare) metallic. ̃গর্ভ a. impregnated with minerals or metals, mineral; (of a Buddhist temple) containing the remains of a holy person's corpse. ̃ঘটিত a. of or made of metal, metallic; mineral; (of medicine) having metal as a constituent; concerning semen. ̃দৌর্বল্য n. spermatorrhoea. ̃দ্রাবক n. borax. ̃নিঃস্রব n. a flowing out of molten metal, lava; a flowing out of semen. ̃পাত্র n. a metal vessel. ̃পোষক a. nourishing, nutritive. ̃বল্লভ n. borax. ̃বিজ্ঞান, ̃বিদ্যা n. metallurgy. ̃বিদ n. metallurgist. ̃ময় a. full of or made of or impregnated with metal, metallic or mineral. ̃মল n. rust. ̃মাক্ষিক n. sulphate of iron or pyrite. ̃রূপ n. conjugation. ̃লেপন n. plating. 72)

(p. 540) dhārānō sharp, sharp-edged; keen. 25)

(p. 540) dhābana act of running; a run; a race; flight; act of cleansing or washing. ̃পথ n. air-strip. 4)

(p. 532) dhātrīẏa a nurse-mother; a wet-nurse; a foster-mother, a midwife; a nurse. 74)

(p. 532) dharapākaḍ় extensive or collective arrests (as by the police); insistent solicitation (চাকরির জন্য ধরপাকড়) ধরপাকড় করা v. to arrest extensively or collectively, to round up; to solicit insistently. 9)

(p. 543) dhuma overmuchness, abundance, excess, wantonness, redundance, surfeit (গঙ্গাস্নানের ধুম, বিলাসিতার ধুম, বক্তৃতার ধুম); éclat, pomp (এবার পুজোয় বড় ধুম). a. terrible, hard, thick (ধুম মারামারি). 16)