(p. 939) śān̐kha, śān̐ka the conch; a conchshell, a conch. শাঁখ বাজানো v. to blow a conchshell or a conch. শাঁখের করাত a saw for cutting conchshells (this saw cuts bothways), a conch-cutter; (fig.) any object the presence and absence of which are equally painful, something which cuts bothways; a dilemma. শাঁক আলু, শাঁখ-আলু, শাঁকালু, শাঁখালু n. a white esculent fruit shaped almost like a conchshell. শাঁকচুন্নি, শাঁকচুর্ণী corruptions of শঙ্খচূর্ণী । শাঁখা n. a bangle for the wrist made of conchshell, a conchbangle. শাঁখারি n. a Hindu caste working and dealing in articles made of conchshells; a member of this caste; a worker or dealer in articles of conchshells. 48)

(p. 949) śīrṇa lean, thin; emaciated. fem. শীর্ণা । ̃কায় a. lean-bodied. ̃তা n. thinness, leanness. 16)

(p. 939) śarabati a bigger variety of lemon. 11)

(p. 935) śatēka one hundred; many hundreds; many, innumerable; nearly or approximately a hundred. ̃খেয়ারি n. fem. (in vulgar reviling) a cursed woman who has seen the death of a hundred near ones. 42)

(p. 951) śōdhana purification; sanctification, consecration; clearing or refining; rectification; amendment, correction; revision; reclamation; reformation; repayment; payment; acquittance. শোধন করা v. to purify; to sanctify, to consecrate; to cleanse or refine; to rectify; to amend, to correct; to revise; to reform. শোধনী a. fem. same as শোধক । শোধনীয় a. to be or capable of being purified or sanctified or consecrated or cleansed or refined or rectified or corrected or reformed or repaid or paid. 65)

(p. 942) śāla4 a large gregarious tree, the sal, the Shorea robusta; its timber; a large tubular river-fish. 40)

(p. 944) śila a stone slab or flat mortar for grinding spices (শিলনোড়া); hailstone, hail; a flat stone for sharpening tools, (cp.) a grindstone. ̃নোড়া n. the mortar and the pestle. শিল পড়া v. to hail. শিল পড়ছে it hails. 80)

(p. 951) śaibalinī a river. 47)

(p. 935) śa1 the thirtieth consonant of the Bengali alphabet. 2)

(p. 944) śāsi a window pane; a sash. 14)

(p. 949) śukānō to free or be freed from moisture, water etc., to dry (কাপড় শুকানো); to sun or be sunned (ধান শুকানো); to wither or be withered (ফুল শুকানো); to emaciate or be emaciated (ছেলেটা শুকিয়ে যাচ্ছে); to heal or be healed (ঘা শুকানো). 28)

(p. 944) śikakābāba meat with spices roasted on a skewer. 28)

(p. 939) śākya a Kshatriya clan. ̃মুনি, ̃সিংহ n. Gautama Buddha. 53)

(p. 949) śuka the popinjay, the parrot. 26)

(p. 944) śāśbata eternal; everlasting, perpetual; immortal. fem. শাশ্বতী । 10)