(p. 839) mandākrāntā a metre of Sanskrit poetry. 28)

(p. 866) miẏā, miẏāsāhēba (Mus.) an appellation of courtesy affixed to the name of a man, (cp.) Mr, Sir.

(p. 886) mlāna pale; haggard, emaciated, shrivelled; dim; lacklustre, mat, matt; dull; cheerless, glum, sorrowful; darkened, gloomy; fatigued, without; (fig.) reduced, humbled, tarnished (গৌরব ম্লান হওয়া). ̃তা, ̃ত্ব, ম্লানিমা n. paleness; haggardness; dimness; dullness; glumness, sadness; gloominess, fatigued state. ̃মুখে adv. with a sad or gloomy face. ম্লানায়মান a. getting pale or haggard or dim or dull or glum or gloomy. 15)

(p. 846) mastaka (high. & for.) the head; the cranium, the skull, the brain; the top, the summit, the crest (হিমালয়ের মস্তক); the topmost or foremost position (মন্ত্রিসভার মস্তকে ছিলেন জওহরলাল). মস্তক ছেদন করা v. to decapitate, to behead; to truncate. ̃চ্যুত a. fallen from or slipped off the head or top. ̃বিশিষ্ট a. having a head, cephalous; headed (বহুমস্তকবিশিষ্ট = hydraheaded). ̃ব্যবচ্ছেদ n. cephalotomy. ̃সংক্রান্ত a. cephalic. ̃হীন, ̃শূন্য a. headless; acephalous; truncated. ̃শূল n. headache, migraine. মস্তকাবরণ n. a covering for the head; a head-dress; a turban; a helmet; a cap; a veil. মস্তকাভরণ n. an ornament for the head. মস্তকোপরি adv. on or over the head. মস্তকোর্ধ্বে adv. over the head, overhead.

(p. 831) mana-dēōẏā-nēōẏā mutual love-making; courtship. 62)

(p. 831) manḍita ornamented; embellished; decorated (with). fem. মন্ডিতা । মন্ডিত করা v. to ornament; to embellish; to decorate; to dress; to overlay or stud (with). 16)

(p. 865) miṭamiṭa expressing: dim, flickering or almost dying state (as of a light); blinking (as of eyes). মিটমিট করা v. to flicker dimly; to blink. মিটমিটে a. dimly flickering; dim; blinking; (fig.) simulating or hypocritical. মিটমিটে ডান, মিটমিটে শয়তান a witch or a rogue dissembling as an honest and simple soul; (fig.) a wolf in a sheepskin. 8)

(p. 867) mukuṭa a crown, a diadem, a coronet. মুকুট পরা v. to put on or wear a crown. মুকুট পরানো v. to crown. মুকুট-পরা a. diademed. 36)

(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. 839) mandara a mythological mountain. 25)

(p. 843) marga a morgue. 17)

(p. 831) maḍ়ipōḍ়ā taking part in cremating the dead bodies of unrelated persons. n. such a Brahman (considered an outcast). 8)

(p. 843) marākaṭāla ebb; low tide. 4)

(p. 852) māgi (sl.) a woman; (sl.) a prostitute. ̃বাড়ি n. (sl.) a brothel. ̃মিনসে n. pl. (sl.) wife and husband; man and wife, a couple. 12)

(p. 852) mādhaba relating to honey; honeyed. n. Krishna (কৃষ্ণ) or Vishnu (বিষ্ণু). মাধবী, মাধবিকা, মাধবীলতা n. an evergreen creeper, (cp.) the myrtle. মাধবীকুঞ্জ n. a myrtle-bower. 82)