(p. 944) śisa, śis a whistling sound made by contracting one's lips, a whistle; a sweet short note (as of birds). শিস দেওয়া v. to whistle.

(p. 939) śallakī the porcupine. 31)

(p. 951) śmaśāna, śmaśānapurī, śmaśānabhūmi a crematorium, a crematory, a cremationground; (fig.) a deserted and cheerless place, house etc. শ্মশানে পরিণত করা v. to turn into or reduce to a cheerless desert. শ্মশানকালী n. Goddess Kali (কালী), the presiding deity of crematoria. শ্মশানচারী a. roaming or living in crematoria. fem. শ্মশানচারিণী । শ্মশানবন্ধু n. one who accompanies or carries a dead body to the crematorium. শ্মশানবাসী a. living in crematoria. fem. শ্মশানবাসিনী । শ্মশানবৈরাগ্য n. the perception of transitoriness of the world, with which the mind of a visitor to a crematorium becomes imbued for a while; (fig.) sham distaste or aversion for the world just before death. 99)

(p. 944) śikṣikā of শিক্ষক । 36)

(p. 935) śatābda, śatābdī a century. 40)

(p. 949) śītkāra hissing sound (indicating sudden sensation of pleasure). 14)

(p. 935) śaṅku a long pin of wood or metal; a probe; a prod; a skewer; a wedge; a peg, a stake; a gnomon; (chiefly in conics) a cone. 27)

(p. 944) śikaḍ় (bot.) root. শিকড় গাড়া v. to root, to strike root, to take root; (fig.) to be firmly established. 29)

(p. 949) śukhā dry; exclusive of bed and board (শুখা মাইনের কাজ). n. drought (হাজাশুখা); roasted or sunned tobacco used as quids or in bidis (বিড়ি). 33)

(p. 939) śākhā a branch of a tree, a bough; a ramus (pl. rami); a section, a part, a subordinate division, a branch; an offshoot. ̃কন্টক n. a thorn. ̃কলম n. (bot.) a cutting. ̃চ্যুত a. fallen or detached from a branch or bough. ̃নদী n. a tributary. শাখান্তরাল n. a position screened off by the branches of a tree. ̃প্রশাখা n. pl. branches and twigs (of a tree); rami and ramuli; ramifications, sections and sub-sections; offshoots large and small. ̃বিন্যাস n. (bot.) branching, ramification. ̃মৃগ. n. a ramal animal; the monkey; the ape. 54)

(p. 951) śraddhā love and respect, admiration, reverence; esteem; confidence, faith (নেতার প্রতি শ্রদ্ধা); devotion (সশ্রদ্ধ পূজা); inclination, desire (খাবারে শ্রদ্ধা). শ্রদ্ধা করা v. to love and respect, to admire, to revere, to esteem; to have confidence or faith in. ̃ন্বিত, ̃বান, ̃লু ̃শীল a. respectful, having faith or confidence in, faithful. ̃ভাজন, ̃স্পদ n. an object of reverence, a reverend person. fem. ̃স্পদা । ̃ভাজনেষু, ̃স্পদেষু to you or him as the reverend one (a form of addressing a reverend person in a letter). 104)

(p. 951) śrābaṇa1 the fourth month of the Bengali calendar. ধারা-শ্রাবণ n. Shrabana (শ্রাবণ) the month of incessant rain or ceaseless downpour. 111)

(p. 949) śukti, śuktikā nacre, abalone, ear-shell, oyster. শুক্তি-বীজ n. pearl. 30)

(p. 935) śaṅkha the conch; a conchshell (esp. one that is sounded by blowing); a conchbangle. n. & a. billion (1,,,). ˜চক্রগদাপদ্মধারী a. carrying a conch-shell, a discus, a mace and a lotus. n. an appellation of God Narayana. ̃চিল n. a species of white-breasted kite. ̃চূড় n. the kingcobra. ̃চূর্ণ n. conchshell powder. ̃চূর্ণী see শঙ্খিনী । ̃ধ্বনি, ̃নাদ n. the sound of blowing a conchshell. ̃ধ্বনি করা, ̃নাদ করা v. to blow a conchshell. ̃বণিক n. a dealer and worker in articles of conchshells. ̃বলয় n. a bangle for the wrist made of conchshell. ̃বিষ n. white arsenic, ratsbane. শঙ্খিনী n. a woman of the third of four sexual categories; the evil spirit of a woman who has died when her husband is still alive, a female ghoul (also শঙ্খচূর্ণী). 28)

(p. 951) ślēṣmā nasal mucus, catarrh, rheum; mucus; phlegm. বুকে শ্লেষ্মা জমা v. to have congestion in one's chest. শ্লেষ্মা ঝরা v. to have one's nose running. ̃ঘটিত same as শ্লৈষ্মিক । ̃প্রধান a. having predominance of phlegm, phlegmatic. 135)