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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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