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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.

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