(p. 851) mahauṣadha a great or infallible medicine; (cp.) panacea. 11)

(p. 864) māhuta a keeper and driver of an elephant, a mahout. 31)

(p. 885) mauktika a pearl; nacre. 2)

(p. 839) manda slow; slow-moving, gentle; sluggish; slack; dim; bad, evil; wicked, vile; inferior; unfavourable, adverse; ill, impaired; indisposed (শরীরটা আজ মন্দ); indigent, poor (মন্দ অবস্হার লোক); impoverished; deteriorated (কারবার মন্দ); harsh, rude; scanty, small, poor (বেতন বড়ো মন্দ); small in number or quantity or degree (বয়স মন্দ নয়); ugly; dull, weak. n. harm, injury. মন্দ করা v. to do harm to, to cause injury to. মন্দ আচরণ misbehaviour, misconduct; illtreatment. মন্দ কথা reproachful words; harsh or rude words; abusive or filthy language; an obscene word; a calumny; bad report. মন্দ কাজ a wicked deed; a misdeed; a disgraceful act. ̃গতি a. slow-moving; slow. n. slowness. ̃গমন, ̃গামী same as ̃গতি । fem. ̃গমনা, ̃গামিনী । মন্দ চালচলন evil ways. ̃তা, ̃ত্ব n. slowness; slow motion; sluggishness; dimness; badness; wickedness, vileness; inferiority; unfavourableness, adverseness; illness, impaired state; indisposition; indigence, poverty; impoverishment; deterioration; harshness, rudeness; scantiness, smallness in number or quantity or degree; ugliness; dullness; weakness. ̃ন n. (mech.) retardation. মন্দ নয় not bad, moderate; (sarcas.) fine, nice. মন্দ ফল bad result; evil consequence. ̃বায়ু same as মন্দানিল । ̃বুদ্ধি a. having evil or foul design; wicked, vile, ill-natured; dull-headed. মন্দ ব্যবহার same as মন্দ আচরণ । ̃ভাগ, ̃ভাগ্য a. ill-fated, unfortunate, unlucky. fem. ̃ভাগা, ̃ভাগ্যা, (loos.) ̃ভাগিনী । ̃মতি same as ̃বুদ্ধি । মন্দ মন্দ adv. slowly, gently. মন্দ সময় bad times, hard times. ̃সমীরণ same as মন্দানিল । ̃স্রোত n. slow current. ̃হাস্য n. a gentle laugh, a smile. ̃হিল্লোল n. gentle waves. মন্দের ভালো rather tolerable in the midst of a world of evils; not bad. 24)

(p. 878) mṛttikā earth; clay, mud; soil; the ground; the earth; the world. বাহিত মৃত্তিকা (geog.) transported soil. ̃গঠিত ̃নির্মিত same as মৃন্ময় । ̃গর্ভ n. the bowels or inside of the earth; an underground place, the underground. ̃পাত্র, ̃ভাণ্ড same as মৃত্পাত্র (see মৃত্). ̃ভোজন n. geophagy. ̃ভোজী a. geophagous. 5)

(p. 847) mahanmadi Mohammedan, Muslim. n. a Mohammedan. 14)

(p. 874) muṣka the scrotum. ̃গ্রন্হি n. the testicles. মুষ্কচ্ছেদন করা v. to castrate. ছিন্নমুষ্ক a. castrated. 39)

(p. 852) māthi the pith within the stem of the cocount-tree, date-tree etc. 71)

(p. 852) mācā, mācāna a platform, a dais; a shelf; a scaffold; a stage; a shooting-platform usu. up a tree, a machan. 18)

(p. 882) mōcaḍ় a contortion; a wring, a twist, a wriggle; a wrench; (fig.) constraint, pressure. মোচড় দেওয়া v. to contort; to wring, to twist, to wriggle; to wrench; (fig.) to constrain, to put (undue) pressure. মোচড়ানো v. to twist; to contort; to wring; to wriggle. মোচড়া-মুচড়ি n. repeated contortion or wringing or twisting or wriggling or wrenching; (fig.) persistent solicitation or higgling. মোচড়ামুচড়ি করা v. to contort or wring or twist or wriggle or wrench; (fig.) to solicit or higgle persistently. 9)

(p. 885) mauralā a species of very small and delicious fish. 11)

(p. 831) madhya the middle; the centre; the waist; the inside or interior; midst; interval. a. middle, central, mid; interior, inside; intervening, interim, mean; middling, mediocre; medium. মধ্য উষ্ণতা mean temperature. ̃ক a. (arith.) mean. n. (arith.) a mean. ̃কর্ণ n. the middle ear, (loos.) the tympanum. ̃কাল n. (astr.) the meantime. ̃কোণ n. (astr.) the mean anomaly. ̃ক্ষীণা a. fem. having a slender waist. ̃গ a. of the middling state, mean. fem. ̃গা । ̃গমন n. (astr.) culmination. ̃চ্ছদা n. (physio.) the diaphragm. ̃তল n. (astr.) the meridian plane. ̃ত্বক n. (bot.) mesocarp. ̃দিন n. (arch.) midday, noon. ̃দেশ n. the middle or central part; the waist; the interior or inside; Central India. ̃পদলোপী n. (gr.) a mode of framing compound words by deleting the word in the middle of other two. ̃পর্দা, ̃পরদা n. the middle lamella. ̃পন্হা n. the middle course; the golden mean. ̃পন্হী a. & n. moderate, (a person) avoiding extremes and following or pursuing the middle course or the golden mean. ˜প্রাচ্য n. the Middle East; countries of the Middle East. ̃বয়স্ক a. middle-aged. fem. মধ্যবয়স্কা । ̃বর্তিতা n. the state of being in the middle; the state of being inside; intermediacy; intervention; mediation. ̃বর্তী a. situated or stationed in the middle or inside or in the midst; intermediate; intervening; medial; mediating. fem. ̃বর্তিনী । ̃বর্তী নিযুক্তক a handling agent. মধ্যবর্তী হওয়া v. to lie in or go into the middle; to intervene; to mediate. ̃বিত্ত a. middleclass, bourgeois. মধ্যবিত্ত-মনোবৃত্তি n. middleclass mentality; (esp. pol.) petty bourgeois mentality. মধ্যবিত্ত-সম্প্রদায় n. the middle class, the bourgeoisie. ̃বিধ a. middling, mediocre. ̃বিন্দু n. the centre. ̃ভারত n. Central India. ̃মণি n. a jewel at the centre of anything; (fig.) the most glorious or precious or prominent person or thing. ̃মান n. an Indian musical measure. ̃যুগ n. the Middle Ages. ̃যুগীয় a. mediaeval. ̃রাত্র n. midnight. ̃রাত্রে adv. at midnight, at dead of night. ̃রেখা n. (geog. & astr.) the meridian; (geom.) a median. মধ্যশিক্ষা পর্ষত্ The Board of Secondary Education. ̃শিরা n. (bot.) the midrib. ̃স্হ a. of the interior or inside; inner; lying inside or in the interior; lying in the midst; intermediate, medial; intervening; mediating; intermediary. n. a mediator; an arbitrator, an arbiter; an intermediary, a middleman, a go-between. fem. ̃স্হা । মধ্যস্হ ন্যায়ালয় an arbitral tribunal. ̃স্হতা n. mediation; arbitration. মধ্যস্হতা করা v. to mediate; to arbitrate. ̃স্হল n. the middle; the centre; the inside, the interior; the midst. ̃স্হিত a. lying inside or in the interior; lying in the midst. 47)

(p. 847) mahuẏā a kind of butter-tree or its seed or flower, the mahua. মহুয়ার মউ, মহুয়ার মধু the honey of mahua flower; a fat obtained from mahua seeds, mahua butter.

(p. 867) miśa1 inky, as dark as ink; very dark. ̃মিশ int. expressing: inky blackness or darkness. ̃মিশে a. as dark as ink; pitch-dark, very dark. 13)

(p. 843) mardana trampling; thrashing; pounding; grinding; kneading; massaging; subduing. a. (used as a sfx.) trampling or subduing (আরতিমর্দন). মর্দন করা v. to trample; to thrash; to pound, to grind; to knead; to massage; to subdue. 21)