(p. 922) laghimā a yogic attainment that enables one to make one's body light or subtle at pleasure; absence of heaviness, lightness. 9)

(p. 927) lōkācāra a popular practice, a custom, a usage; customs and usages collectively. লোকাচারের বিরুদ্ধে a. contrary to popular practice, opposed to prevailing custom or usage. 105)

(p. 922) lanṭhana a lantern. 37)

(p. 926) lāṅula, lāṅgula a tail (of beasts.) ̃হীন a. tailless, anurous, anourous. 13)

(p. 927) lēkhā to write; to compose (as a book); to write; to draw or describe or trace. n. same as লিখন a. written; composed; drawn or traced. ̃জোখা n. accounts. ̃নো v. to cause to write or compose or write to or draw or trace; to teach one how to write. ̃পড়া n. reading and writing; education; studies; an agreement in black and white; a legally registered agreement. লেখাপড়া করা v. to read and write; to receive education; to study; to enter into or draw up a written agreement; to execute a legally registered agreement. লেখালিখি করা v. to write (repeatedly) to one another; to send in repeated correspondence; to do some writing; to make repeated representation in writing. 74)

(p. 922) lajēñcusa lozenge. 23)

(p. 927) līlā sport; pleasure; dalliance; activities (কৃষ্ণের লীলা); (sarcas.) undesirable activities (নেতাদের লীলা); significant but unintelligible work or sport (বিধাতার লীলা). ̃কমল n. a lotus carried in the hand playfully; a toy lotus. ̃কলহ n. a lover's quarrel; a mock quarrel. ̃কানন n. a pleasure garden. ̃কুঞ্জ n. a pleasure grove. ̃ক্ষেত্র n. a field of activities; a venue of sports. ̃খেলা same as লীলা । লীলাখেলা সাঙ্গ করা v. (usu. sarcas.) to die; (iron-usu. of a criminal) to give up one's activities and surrender. ̃চঞ্চল a. frequently moving in playfulness; sweetly frolicsome. ̃বতী same as ̃ময়ী । ̃ভূমি same as ̃ক্ষেত্র । ̃ময় a. sweetly playful or sportive; given to sweet dalliance; attitudinizing; one whose activities, though significant, are not easily intelligible. fem. ̃ময়ী । ̃য়িত a. having assumed a beautiful pose or posture, attitudinized; full of delicate movements. 49)

(p. 921) lakṣī the Hindu goddess of wealth and prosperity; fortune; beauty; grace. a. fem. & masc. well-behaved and good-natured. লক্ষীর বরপুত্র Fortune's favourite. লক্ষীর ভান্ডার an inexhaustible store. ˜ছাড়া a. bereft of grace and prosperity; wretched; uncouth; scoundrelly, wicked. fem. ̃ছাড়ি । ̃ছাড়া, ̃ছাড়া লোক n. a scapegrace, a wretch, a scoundrel. ̃প্যাঁচা n. a kind of whitish owl on which Goddess Lakshmi rides. ̃বন্ত, ̃মন্ত a. prosperous, rich, wealthly; auspicious or graceful (লক্ষীবন্ত চেহারা). ̃বার n. the day of the week when the Goddess Lakshmi is worshipped, (usu.) Thursday. ̃শ্রী n. graceful signs or marks of prosperity or auspiciousness; grace or beauty resembling that of Goddess Lakshmi (লক্ষী). ̃স্বরূপিণী a. resembling Goddess Lakshmi (লক্ষী) in beauty and merits; appearing as Lakshmi incarnate. 16)

(p. 922) lapēṭā a kind of vamped slippers. 44)

(p. 926) lāgāma a bridle; reins. লাগাম পরানো v. to bridle, to bit; (fig.) to restrain, to curb. লাগাম কামড়ানো to champ the bit. ̃ছাড়া a. unbridled; (fig.) unrestrained or (over-) free. 8)

(p. 933) lōma-phōn̐ḍ়ā a boil in a hair follicle. 7)

(p. 921) lakṣapati a man worth a hundred thousand rupees or more, (loos.) a millionaire; a very wealthy man. 13)

(p. 922) laḍḍu, laḍḍuka a sweet drop. 36)

(p. 927) lupta no longer existing, extinct; defunct; abolished; gone out of currency or practice, obsolete; destroyed; covered, wrapped, extinct; (of species etc.) that has disappeared or vanished; invisible; hidden, concealed; (bot.) abortive; (gr.) elided. অধুনালুপ্ত আইন a law now defunct. ̃প্রায় a. obsolescent; almost extinct or defunct or destroyed or covered or invisible or hidden or (bot.) abortive. লুপ্তাঙ্গ n. (bot.) an abortive organ. লুপ্তোদ্ধার n. recovery or reclamation of a thing lost or destroyed or ruined; discovery of a hidden or secret thing. 66)

(p. 927) lōkasāna loss; damage, harm. লোকসান করা v. to damage, to harm; to cause or suffer a loss. লোকসান দেওয়া v. to suffer or incur a loss; to lose. 104)