मल a. [मृज्यते शोध्यते मृज्-कल टिलो- पः Tv.]
1 Dirty, foul.
2 Mean, covetous.
3 Unbelieving, infidel, godless.
4 Wicked. −लः, −लं
1 Dirt, filth, impurity, dust, any impure matter; मलदायकाः खलाः K. 2; छा- या न मूर्छति मलोपहतप्रसादे शुद्धे तु दर्प- णतले सुलभावकाशा Ś. 7. 32.
2 Dregs, refuse, sediment, excrement, feces, dung.
3 Dross (of metals), rust, alloy.
4 Moral taint or impurity, sin.
5 Any impure secretion of the body; (according to Manu these excretions are twelve:−वसा शुक्रमसृङ् म- ज्जा मूत्रविड् घ्राणकर्णविट् । श्लेऽमाश्रुदूषिका स्वेदो द्वादशैते नृणां मलाः Ms. 5. 135.).
6 Camphor.
7 Cuttle-fish bone.
8 Tanned leather; a leather-garment.
9 The three humours of the body (वात, पित्त and कफ).
−लं A kind of base metal.
−Comp.
−अपकर्षणं 1. removing the dirt, purification. −2. removal of sin.
−अरिः a kind of natron.
−अवरोधः constipation of the bowels.
−आकर्षिन् m. a sweeper, a scavenger.
−आवह a. 1. causing dirt dirtying, soiling. −2. defiling, polluting.
−आशयः the stomach.
−उत्सर्गः evacuation of the feces, voiding the excrement.
−उद्वासा a woman who has put off her soiled clothes.
−उपहत a. soiled, tarnished with dirt; Ś. 7. 32.
−कर्षण a. cleansing.
−घ्न a. cleansing, detergent. (
−घ्नः) the bulbous root of शाल्मली. (
−घ्नी) N. of a plant (नाग- दमनी.)
−जं pus, matter.
−दूषित a. dirty, foul, soiled.
−द्रवः purging, diarrhœa.
−द्राविन् a. purging. (−m.) the Jayapāla tree.
−धात्री a nurse who attends to a child's necessities.
−धारिन् m. a religious mendicant of the Jaina sect.
−पृष्ठं the first (or outer) page of a book.
−भुज् m. a. crow.
−मल्लकः a strip of cloth covering the privities (कौपीन).
−मासः an intercalary month (so called because during that month religious ceremonies are not performed).
−वासस् f. a woman in her courses. −विसर्गः, −विसर्जनं, −शुद्धिः f. evacuation of the bowels.
−हंतृ m. = मलघ्नः.
−हारक a. removing dirt or sin.