Meaning of कवच in English

Armor; whatever is worn or used for the protection and defense of the body, esp. the protective outfit of some animals and plants.
A piece of soft iron used to connect the two poles of a magnet, or electro-magnet, in order to complete the circuit, or to receive and apply the magnetic force. In the ordinary horseshoe magnet, it serves to prevent the dissipation of the magnetic force.
Iron bars or framing employed for the consolidation of a building, as in sustaining slender columns, holding up canopies, etc.
Defensive arms for the body; any clothing or covering worn to protect one's person in battle.
Steel or iron covering, whether of ships or forts, protecting them from the fire of artillery.
A piece of defensive armor, covering the body from the neck to the girdle
The breastplate taken by itself.
An armor of bony plates, somewhat resembling a cuirass.
Armor.
A variety of twilled fabric ribbed on the surface.
A covering for the head.
The hard external coat or covering of anything; the hard exterior surface or outer shell; an incrustation; as, a crust of snow.
The hard exterior or surface of bread, in distinction from the soft part or crumb; or a piece of bread grown dry or hard.
The cover or case of a pie, in distinction from the soft contents.
The dough, or mass of doughy paste, cooked with a potpie; -- also called dumpling.
The exterior portion of the earth, formerly universally supposed to inclose a molten interior.
The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.
A hard mass, made up of dried secretions blood, or pus, occurring upon the surface of the body.
An incrustation on the interior of wine bottles, the result of the ripening of the wine; a deposit of tartar, etc. See Beeswing.
To cover with a crust; to cover or line with an incrustation; to incrust.
To gather or contract into a hard crust; to become incrusted.
An adherent crust; an incrustation.
of Grovel
Lying prone; low; debased.
The male of the sparrow hawk.
A species of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army. It was originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted. This arm has been generally superseded by the rifle.
See Mouflon.
Of or pertaining to burial, to the grave, or to monuments erected to the memory of the dead; as, a sepulchral stone; a sepulchral inscription.
Unnaturally low and grave; hollow in tone; -- said of sound, especially of the voice.
of Sepulchre
Variegated; spotted; speckled; piebald.
The common sheldrake.
A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal.
The covering, or outside part, of a nut; as, a hazelnut shell.
A pod.
The hard covering of an egg.
The hard calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates. In some mollusks, as the cuttlefishes, it is internal, or concealed by the mantle. Also, the hard covering of some vertebrates, as the armadillo, the tortoise, and the like.
Hence, by extension, any mollusks having such a covering.
A hollow projectile, of various shapes, adapted for a mortar or a cannon, and containing an explosive substance, ignited with a fuse or by percussion, by means of which the projectile is burst and its fragments scattered. See Bomb.
The case which holds the powder, or charge of powder and shot, used with breechloading small arms.
Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in; as, the shell of a house.
A coarse kind of coffin; also, a thin interior coffin inclosed in a more substantial one.
An instrument of music, as a lyre, -- the first lyre having been made, it is said, by drawing strings over a tortoise shell.
An engraved copper roller used in print works.
The husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is often used as a substitute for chocolate, cocoa, etc.
The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
A light boat the frame of which is covered with thin wood or with paper; as, a racing shell.
To strip or break off the shell of; to take out of the shell, pod, etc.; as, to shell nuts or pease; to shell oysters.
To separate the kernels of (an ear of Indian corn, wheat, oats, etc.) from the cob, ear, or husk.
To throw shells or bombs upon or into; to bombard; as, to shell a town.
To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk; as, nuts shell in falling.
To be disengaged from the ear or husk; as, wheat or rye shells in reaping.
of Shell
Having a shell.
Work composed of shells, or adorned with them.
A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass.
To assemble in a multitude; to throng; as, the fishes shoaled about the place.
Having little depth; shallow; as, shoal water.
A place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, etc., is shallow; a shallow.
A sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal.
To become shallow; as, the color of the water shows where it shoals.
To cause to become more shallow; to come to a more shallow part of; as, a ship shoals her water by advancing into that which is less deep.
Parings and refuse of hides, skins, etc., from which glue is made.