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Meaning of तिल in English

  • The name of two plants (Sesamum orientale and S. indicum), originally Asiatic; -- also called oil plant. From their seeds an oil is expressed, called benne oil, used mostly for making soap. In the southern United States the seeds are used in candy.
  • A spot; a stain; a mark which discolors or disfigures.
  • A spot, mark, or small permanent protuberance on the human body; esp., a spot which is dark-colored, from which commonly issue one or more hairs.
  • A mass of fleshy or other more or less solid matter generated in the uterus.
  • A mound or massive work formed of masonry or large stones, etc., laid in the sea, often extended either in a right line or an arc of a circle before a port which it serves to defend from the violence of the waves, thus protecting ships in a harbor; also, sometimes, the harbor itself.
  • Any insectivore of the family Talpidae. They have minute eyes and ears, soft fur, and very large and strong fore feet.
  • A plow of peculiar construction, for forming underground drains.
  • To form holes in, as a mole; to burrow; to excavate; as, to mole the earth.
  • To clear of molehills.
  • Either of two annual herbaceous plants of the genus Sesamum (S. Indicum, and S. orientale), from the seeds of which an oil is expressed; also, the small obovate, flattish seeds of these plants, sometimes used as food. See Benne.

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