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Meaning of कोंब in English

  • The surface formed by cutting away the arris, or angle, formed by two faces of a piece of timber, stone, etc.
  • To cut a furrow in, as in a column; to groove; to channel; to flute.
  • To make a chamfer on.
  • A small black spot or mark remaining in the cavity of the corner tooth of a horse after the large spot or mark has become obliterated.
  • A very contagious and fatal disease of sheep, horses, and cattle. See Maligmant pustule.
  • A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall.
  • To crack; to open.
  • To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
  • To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.
  • A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence.
  • Money; cash.
  • To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
  • To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.
  • The top or head of anything.
  • A leader or chief; a conspicuous person, esp. a rich covetous person.
  • The axis on which the kernels of maize or indian corn grow.
  • A spider; perhaps from its shape; it being round like a head.
  • A young herring.
  • A fish; -- also called miller's thumb.
  • A short-legged and stout horse, esp. one used for the saddle.
  • A sea mew or gull; esp., the black-backed gull (Larus marinus).
  • A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone.
  • A cobnut; as, Kentish cobs. See Cobnut.
  • Clay mixed with straw.
  • A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
  • A Spanish coin formerly current in Ireland, worth abiut 4s. 6d.
  • To strike
  • To break into small pieces, as ore, so as to sort out its better portions.
  • To punish by striking on the buttocks with a strap, a flat piece of wood, or the like.
  • A dry measure of four bushels, or half a quarter.
  • Alt. of Coombe
  • A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit.
  • A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with fiddle-shaped leaves; -- called also fiddle dock.
  • A rack or frame of bars connected by strings, to keep table furniture in place on the cabin table in bad weather.
  • To play on a fiddle.
  • To keep the hands and fingers actively moving as a fiddler does; to move the hands and fingers restlessy or in busy idleness; to trifle.
  • To play (a tune) on a fiddle.
  • A simple podlike pericarp which contains several seeds and opens along the inner or ventral suture, as in the peony, larkspur and milkweed.
  • A small cavity, tubular depression, or sac; as, a hair follicle.
  • A simple gland or glandular cavity; a crypt.
  • A small mass of adenoid tissue; as, a lymphatic follicle.
  • To utter a sound like the cry of a duck.
  • To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast.
  • To act the part of a quack, or pretender.
  • The cry of the duck, or a sound in imitation of it; a hoarse, quacking noise.
  • A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.
  • Hence, one who boastfully pretends to skill or knowledge of any kind not possessed; a charlatan.
  • Pertaining to or characterized by, boasting and pretension; used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack medicine; a quack doctor.
  • To spit; to throw out.
  • Spittle.
  • To throw out forcibly and abudantly, as liquids through an office or a pipe; to eject in a jet; as, an elephant spouts water from his trunk.
  • To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
  • To pawn; to pledge; as, spout a watch.
  • To issue with with violence, or in a jet, as a liquid through a narrow orifice, or from a spout; as, water spouts from a hole; blood spouts from an artery.
  • To eject water or liquid in a jet.
  • To utter a speech, especially in a pompous manner.
  • That through which anything spouts; a discharging lip, pipe, or orifice; a tube, pipe, or conductor of any kind through which a liquid is poured, or by which it is conveyed in a stream from one place to another; as, the spout of a teapot; a spout for conducting water from the roof of a building.
  • A trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a receptacle.
  • A discharge or jet of water or other liquid, esp. when rising in a column; also, a waterspout.
  • Full of sprigs or small branches.
  • 3d pers. sing. pres. of Tread, for treadeth.
  • An allowance to purchasers, for waste or refuse matter, of four pounds on every 104 pounds of suttle weight, or weight after the tare deducted.

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