शङ्किन् शङ्कुचि

शङ्कु

शङ्कु [शंक्-उण् Uṇ. 1. 36]
1 A dart, spear, spike, javelin, dagger; oft. at the end of comp.; शोकशंकुः ‘the dart of grief’, i. e. sharp or poignant grief; U. 3. 35; R. 8. 93.
2 A stake, pillar, post, pale.
3 A nail, pin, peg; R. 12. 95.
4 The sharp head or point of an arrow, barb.
5 The trunk (of a lopped tree), stump, pollard.
6 The pin of a dial.
7 A measure of twelve fingers.
8 A measuring-rod
9 The sine of altitude (in astr.).
10 Ten billions.
11 The fibres of a leaf.
12 An ant-hill.
13 The penis.
14 The skate-fish.
15 A demon.
16 Poison.
17 Sin; crime.
18 An aquatic animal, particularly, a goose.
19 N. of Śiva.
20 The sāla tree.
21 A kind of perfume (नखी).
22 N. of Kāma, the god of love.
−Comp.
−कर्ण a. spike cared. (
−र्णः) an ass.
−जीवा (in astr.) the gnomon sine. −तरुः, −वृक्षः the Sāla tree.

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