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Meaning of कफ in English

  • The act of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs, by coughing, hawking, and spitting.
  • That which is expectorated, as phlegm or mucus.
  • A gummy or gelatinous substance produced in certain plants by the action of water on the cell wall, as in the seeds of quinces, of flax, etc.
  • An aqueous solution of gum, or of substances allied to it; as, medicinal mucilage; mucilage for fastening envelopes.
  • One of the four humors of which the ancients supposed the blood to be composed. See Humor.
  • Viscid mucus secreted in abnormal quantity in the respiratory and digestive passages.
  • A watery distilled liquor, in distinction from a spirituous liquor.
  • Sluggishness of temperament; dullness; want of interest; indifference; coldness.
  • A cleft in a hill; a ravine; a narrow valley.
  • A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.
  • An allowance in weighing. See Cloff.
  • To strike; esp., to smite with the palm or flat of the hand; to slap.
  • To buffet.
  • To fight; to scuffle; to box.
  • A blow; esp.,, a blow with the open hand; a box; a slap.
  • The fold at the end of a sleeve; the part of a sleeve turned back from the hand.
  • Any ornamental appendage at the wrist, whether attached to the sleeve of the garment or separate; especially, in modern times, such an appendage of starched linen, or a substitute for it of paper, or the like.
  • A medicine supposed to expel phlegm.
  • An inflammation; more particularly, an inflammation of the internal organs.
  • Phlegmatic.
  • Purulent inflammation of the cellular or areolar tissue.
  • See Pliocene.

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