Meaning of पंख in English
- One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.
- Kind; nature; species; -- from the proverbial phrase, "Birds of a feather," that is, of the same species.
- The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs.
- A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse.
- One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
- A longitudinal strip projecting as a fin from an object, to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sidwise but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.
- A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone.
- The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
- To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap.
- To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.
- To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
- To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
- To tread, as a cock.
- To grow or form feathers; to become feathered; -- often with out; as, the birds are feathering out.
- To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or "feathers;" as, the cream feathers
- To turn to a horizontal plane; -- said of oars.
- To have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form.
- of Feather
- Clothed, covered, or fitted with (or as with) feathers or wings; as, a feathered animal; a feathered arrow.
- Furnished with anything featherlike; ornamented; fringed; as, land feathered with trees.
- Having a fringe of feathers, as the legs of certian birds; or of hairs, as the legs of a setter dog.
- Having feathers; -- said of an arrow, when the feathers are of a tincture different from that of the shaft.
- To carve or cut up, as a chub.
- End; conclusion; object.
- An organ of a fish, consisting of a membrane supported by rays, or little bony or cartilaginous ossicles, and serving to balance and propel it in the water.
- A membranous, finlike, swimming organ, as in pteropod and heteropod mollusks.
- A finlike organ or attachment; a part of an object or product which protrudes like a fin
- The hand.
- A blade of whalebone.
- A mark or ridge left on a casting at the junction of the parts of a mold.
- The thin sheet of metal squeezed out between the collars of the rolls in the process of rolling.
- A feather; a spline.
- A finlike appendage, as to submarine boats.
- A leaflet of a pinnate leaf. See Illust. of Bipinnate leaf, under Bipinnate.
- One of the primary divisions of a decompound leaf.
- One of the divisions of a pinnate part or organ.
- Any species of Pinna, a genus of large bivalve mollusks found in all warm seas. The byssus consists of a large number of long, silky fibers, which have been used in manufacturing woven fabrics, as a curiosity.
- The auricle of the ear. See Ear.
- of Pinna
- A feather; esp., a soft, downy feather, or a long, conspicuous, or handsome feather.
- An ornamental tuft of feathers.
- A feather, or group of feathers, worn as an ornament; a waving ornament of hair, or other material resembling feathers.
- A token of honor or prowess; that on which one prides himself; a prize or reward.
- A large and flexible panicle of inflorescence resembling a feather, such as is seen in certain large ornamental grasses.
- To pick and adjust the plumes or feathers of; to dress or prink.
- To strip of feathers; to pluck; to strip; to pillage; also, to peel.
- To adorn with feathers or plumes.
- To pride; to vaunt; to boast; -- used reflexively; as, he plumes himself on his skill.
- of Ala
- See Phasel.
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