शूल [शूल्-क]
1 A sharp or pointed weapon, pike, dart, spear, lance.
2 The trident of Śiva.
3 An iron-spit (for roasting meat upon); शूले संस्कृतं शूल्यम्; cf. अयः शूल.
4 A stake for impaling criminals; (बिभ्रत्) स्कंधेन शूलं हृदयेन शोकं Mk. 10. 21, Ku. 5. 73.
5 Any acute or sharp pain.
6 Colic.
7 Gout, rheumatism.
8 Death.
9 A banner, an ensign. (शूलाकृ ‘to roast on an iron-spit’).
−Comp.
−अग्रं the point of a pike.
−ग्रंथिः f. a kind of Dūrvā grass.
−घातनं iron-filings.
−घ्न a. sedative, anodyne.
−द्विष् m. asa fœtida. −धन्वन्, −धर, −धारिन्, −धृक्, −पाणि, −भृत् m. epithets of Śiva; अधिगतधवलिम्नः शूलपाणेरभि- ख्यां Śi. 4. 65; R. 2. 38.
−नाशनं white sochal salt.
−शत्रुः the castor-oil plant.
−स्थ a. impaled.
−हंत्री a kind of barley.
−हस्तः a lancer.
−हृत् m. asa Fœtida.