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Meaning of कलम in English

  • A flea.
  • To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything; to sho/ -- by cutting off the extremities; to cut off, or remove as superfluous parts; as, to lop a tree or its branches.
  • To cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop bushes in a hedge.
  • That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree.
  • To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
  • To let hang down; as, to lop the head.
  • Hanging down; as, lop ears; -- used also in compound adjectives; as, lopeared; lopsided.
  • A feather.
  • A wing.
  • An instrument used for writing with ink, formerly made of a reed, or of the quill of a goose or other bird, but now also of other materials, as of steel, gold, etc. Also, originally, a stylus or other instrument for scratching or graving.
  • Fig.: A writer, or his style; as, he has a sharp pen.
  • The internal shell of a squid.
  • A female swan.
  • To write; to compose and commit to paper; to indite; to compose; as, to pen a sonnet.
  • To shut up, as in a pen or cage; to confine in a small inclosure or narrow space; to coop up, or shut in; to inclose.
  • A small inclosure; as, a pen for sheep or for pigs.
  • pl. of Penny.
  • One who, or that which, scoops.
  • The avocet; -- so called because it scoops up the mud to obtain food.
  • A separate portion of a written paper, paragraph, or sentence; an article, stipulation, or proviso, in a legal document.
  • A subordinate portion or a subdivision of a sentence containing a subject and its predicate.
  • See Letters clause / close, under Letter.
  • A German title of nobility, equivalent to earl in English, or count in French. See Earl.
  • The scarp of a ditch or moat.
  • A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.
  • A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.
  • A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.
  • To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon.
  • To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.
  • To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.
  • To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope-yarns.
  • To insert scions from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.
  • of Graft
  • One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting.
  • An instrument by which grafting is facilitated.
  • The original tree from which a scion has been taken for grafting upon another tree.

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