Meaning of दोरखंड in English
- The watch of a whole army by night, when in danger of surprise or attack.
- An encampment for the night without tents or covering.
- To watch at night or be on guard, as a whole army.
- To encamp for the night without tents or covering.
- A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together.
- A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four feet broad; -- originally measured with a cord or line.
- Fig.: Any moral influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord; an enticement; as, the cords of the wicked; the cords of sin; the cords of vanity.
- Any structure having the appearance of a cord, esp. a tendon or a nerve. See under Spermatic, Spinal, Umbilical, Vocal.
- See Chord.
- To bind with a cord; to fasten with cords; to connect with cords; to ornament or finish with a cord or cords, as a garment.
- To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.
- of Core
- Ropes or cords, collectively; hence, anything made of rope or cord, as those parts of the rigging of a ship which consist of ropes.
- Same as Cordelle.
- Heart-shaped; as, a cordate leaf.
- of Cord
- Bound or fastened with cords.
- Piled in a form for measurement by the cord.
- Made of cords.
- Striped or ribbed with cords; as, cloth with a corded surface.
- Bound about, or wound, with cords.
- A Franciscan; -- so called in France from the girdle of knotted cord worn by all Franciscans.
- A member of a French political club of the time of the first Revolution, of which Danton and Marat were members, and which met in an old Cordelier convent in Paris.
- A twisted cord; a tassel.
- A cord or ribbon bestowed or borne as a badge of honor; a broad ribbon, usually worn after the manner of a baldric, constituting a mark of a very high grade in an honorary order. Cf. Grand cordon.
- The cord worn by a Franciscan friar.
- The coping of the scarp wall, which projects beyong the face of the wall a few inches.
- A line or series of sentinels, or of military posts, inclosing or guarding any place or thing.
- A rich and ornamental lace or string, used to secure a mantle in some costumes of state.
- A term used in the Middle Ages for Spanish leather (goatskin tanned and dressed), and hence, any leather handsomely finished, colored, gilded, or the like.
- A worker in cordwain, or cordovan leather; a shoemaker.
- See Crosslet.
- Of or pertaining to ocelli.
- The state of oscillating; a seesaw kind of motion.
- To move backward and forward; to vibrate like a pendulum; to swing; to sway.
- To vary or fluctuate between fixed limits; to act or move in a fickle or fluctuating manner; to change repeatedly, back and forth.
- of Oscillate
- That oscillates; vibrating; swinging.
- Moving, or characterized by motion, backward and forward like a pendulum; swinging; oscillating; vibratory; as, oscillatory motion.
- Yawning; gaping.
- Sleepy; drowsy; dull; sluggish; careless.
- The act of gaping or yawning.
- Drowsiness; dullness; sluggishness.
- To gape; to yawn.
- The act of yawning or gaping.
- To kiss.
- To touch closely, so as to have a common curvature at the point of contact. See Osculation, 2.
- To kiss one another; to kiss.
- To touch closely. See Osculation, 2.
- To have characters in common with two genera or families, so as to form a connecting link between them; to interosculate. See Osculant.
- of Osculate
- The act of kissing; a kiss.
- The contact of one curve with another, when the number of consecutive points of the latter through which the former passes suffices for the complete determination of the former curve.
- Of or pertaining to kissing; kissing.
- Pertaining to, or having the properties of, an osculatrix; capable of osculation; as, a circle may be osculatory with a curve, at a given point.
- Same as Pax, 2.
- One of the excurrent apertures of sponges.
- The act or process of enlightening again.
- Quality of being ropy; viscosity.
- Somewhat ropy.
- of Rope
- An officer of the forest who had the care of vert and venison by night.
- A little tuft; a curl or artificial lock of hair.
- A small wig, or a toppiece of a wig.
- An urchin who has soft, whitish hair.
- The hooded merganser.
Meaning of दोरखंड in English
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