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Meaning of लहरी in English

  • Abbatial.
  • A genus of rapacious birds; one of the Accipitres or Raptores.
  • A bandage applied over the nose, resembling the claw of a hawk.
  • Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a falcon or hawk; hawklike.
  • Same as Acerose.
  • Destitute of tentacles, as certain mollusks.
  • Without antennae, as some insects.
  • Alveolar.
  • Alt. of Arrhythmous
  • Being without rhythm or regularity, as the pulse.
  • Gay; full of gayety; joyous.
  • Headlike in form; also, having the distal end enlarged and rounded, as the stigmas of certain flowers.
  • Having the flowers gathered into a head.
  • Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable.
  • Having feet like those of a goat.
  • Belonging to the Carangidae, a family of fishes allied to the mackerels, and including the caranx, American bluefish, and the pilot fish.
  • Made, or consisting, of hair.
  • A sharp, harsh, ringing sound.
  • Bearing a club or a key.
  • One who, or that which, creeps; any creeping thing.
  • A plant that clings by rootlets, or by tendrils, to the ground, or to trees, etc.; as, the Virginia creeper (Ampelopsis quinquefolia).
  • A small bird of the genus Certhia, allied to the wrens. The brown or common European creeper is C. familiaris, a variety of which (var. Americana) inhabits America; -- called also tree creeper and creeptree. The American black and white creeper is Mniotilta varia.
  • A kind of patten mounted on short pieces of iron instead of rings; also, a fixture with iron points worn on a shoe to prevent one from slipping.
  • A spurlike device strapped to the boot, which enables one to climb a tree or pole; -- called often telegraph creepers.
  • A small, low iron, or dog, between the andirons.
  • An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dragging at the bottom of a well, or any other body of water, and bringing up what may lie there.
  • Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen.
  • Crockets. See Crocket.
  • One who, or that which, crimps
  • A curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched to the required shape.
  • A device for giving hair a wavy appearance.
  • A machine for crimping or ruffling textile fabrics.
  • Given to crotchets; subject to whims; as, a crotchety man.
  • Having jointed stems or culms.
  • Containing, or abounding in, culm or glance coal.
  • In any animal, esp. of the Herbivora, a rudimentary claw or small hoof not reaching the ground.
  • Of or pertaining to the class Diandria; having two stamens.
  • Ambiguous; of double meaning.
  • Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like.
  • To stand under the eaves, near a window or at the door, of a house, to listen and learn what is said within doors; hence, to listen secretly to what is said in private.
  • The water which falls in drops from the eaves of a house.
  • One who stands under the eaves, or near the window or door of a house, to listen; hence, a secret listener.
  • The habit of lurking about dwelling houses, and other places where persons meet fro private intercourse, secretly listening to what is said, and then tattling it abroad. The offense is indictable at common law.
  • A species of large South African antelope (Oreas canna). It is valued both for its hide and flesh, and is rapidly disappearing in the settled districts; -- called also Cape elk.
  • The elk or moose.
  • To bar or shut in; to inclose securely, as with bars.
  • To stop; to hinder by prohibition; to block up.
  • Borne on the petals or corolla.
  • A hobby ; freak; whim.
  • To fit; to suit; to agree.
  • A small flat loaf or thick cake; also, a fagot.
  • A fathom.
  • Faded.
  • A butcher.
  • A two-handled, convex, blunt-edged knife, for scraping hides; a fleshing knife.
  • Weak; feeble; limp; slight; vain; without strength or solidity; of loose and unsubstantial structure; without reason or plausibility; as, a flimsy argument, excuse, objection.
  • Thin or transfer paper.
  • A bank note.
  • of Flit
  • A flying with lightness and celerity; a fluttering.
  • A removal from one habitation to another.
  • Pertaining to rivers; abounding in streama.
  • Easily crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder.
  • One who frizzles.
  • See Fodder, a weight.
  • Pertaining to, or derived from, furile; as, furilic acid.
  • Pertaining to, or containing, gallium.
  • Pertaining to, or derived from, galls, nutgalls, and the like.
  • Pertaining to Gaul or France; Gallican.
  • To frighten; to worry.
  • Like gall; bitter as gall.
  • See Galley, n., 4.
  • In a plucky manner; spiritedly.
  • Showy; dazzling; ostentatious; attracting or exciting attention.
  • Gay to extravagance; flighty.
  • Pertaining to, or resembling, garum.
  • Talking much, especially about commonplace or trivial things; talkative; loquacious.
  • Having a loud, harsh note; noisy; -- said of birds; as, the garrulous roller.
  • Full of gashes; hideous; frightful.
  • Prone to giggling.
  • A wanton; a lascivious or light, giddy girl.
  • See Gimlet.
  • A trivial mechanism; a device; a toy; a pretty thing.
  • A piece of mechanism; mechanical device or contrivance; a gimcrack.
  • Minutely hispid.
  • Not closing or shutting.
  • Relating to the indulgences of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • An artificer who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones; hence, a dealer in precious stones.
  • A virtuoso skilled in gems or precious stones; a connoisseur of lapidary work.
  • Of or pertaining to the art of cutting stones, or engraving on stones, either gems or monuments; as, lapidary ornamentation.
  • Of or pertaining to monumental inscriptions; as, lapidary adulation.
  • Alt. of Lapidifical
  • Wanton; lewd; lustful; as, lascivious men; lascivious desires.
  • Tending to produce voluptuous or lewd emotions.
  • Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with, a law of the ancient Israelites and other tribes and races, according to which a woman, whose husband died without issue, was married to the husband's brother.
  • Pliant; limber; flexible; supple; nimble; lissom.
  • See Lixivial.
  • Pertaining to, or used for, purification.
  • Partaking of the qualites of marlite.
  • Of or pertaining to song; lyric; tuneful.
  • Applied to the ovaries of insects when they secrete vitelligenous cells, as well as ova.
  • Of or pertaining to obits, or days when obits are celebrated; as, obitual days.
  • Ocherous.
  • One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so called from the pall being formerly carried by them.
  • Of or pertaining to palms; of the nature of, or resembling, palms.
  • A pilgrim's staff.
  • Paltry; shabby; shabbily; paltrily.
  • A deep pie or pudding made of baked apples, or of sliced bread and apples baked together, with no bottom crust.
  • Attended with peril; dangerous; as, a parlous cough.
  • Venturesome; bold; mischievous; keen.
  • Of or pertaining to a pellicle.
  • Transparent; clear; limpid; translucent; not opaque.
  • The portion of a vault by means of which the square space in the middle of a building is brought to an octagon or circle to receive a cupola.
  • The part of a groined vault which is supported by, and springs from, one pier or corbel.
  • Consisting of, or covered with, hair; hairy; pilose.
  • Watery; abounding with puddles; splashy.
  • Specked, as if plashed with color.
  • Plump; fat; sleek.
  • The falling down of a part through the orifice with which it is naturally connected, especially of the uterus or the rectum.
  • To fall down or out; to protrude.
  • Prolapse.
  • Producing young or fruit abundantly; fruitful; prolific.
  • The generation of young.
  • Reproduction by the growth of a plant, or part of a plant, directly from an older one, or by gemmae.
  • Abounding with fleas.
  • One who speaks in a pulpit; a preacher; -- so called in contempt.
  • The American night heron. See under Night.
  • To suffocate; to choke.
  • Sand easily moved or readily yielding to pressure; especially, a deep mass of loose or moving sand mixed with water, sometimes found at the mouth of a river or along some coasts, and very dangerous, from the difficulty of extricating a person who begins sinking into it.
  • Resembling, or having the character of, raff, or a raff; worthless; low.
  • Damp; musty.
  • Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force.
  • Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious bird.
  • Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite.
  • Hoarse; raucous.
  • Hoarse; harsh; rough; as, a raucous, thick tone.
  • To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.
  • To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy.
  • To have carnal knowledge of (a woman) by force, and against her consent; to rape.
  • of Ravish
  • Rapturous; transporting.
  • To split again.
  • A stack or pile, as of grain, straw, or hay, in the open air, usually protected from wet with thatching.
  • To heap up in ricks, as hay, etc.
  • The act of ridding or freeing; deliverance; a cleaning up or out.
  • The state of being rid or free; freedom; escape.
  • A half-castrated male animal.
  • A trough or sluice having cleats, grooves, or steps across the bottom for holding quicksilver and catching particles of gold when auriferous earth is washed; also, one of the cleats, grooves, or steps in such a trough. Also called ripple.
  • A fold or wrinkle. See Rumple.
  • To rumple; to wrinkle.
  • of Rimple
  • Growing along the banks of rivers; riparian.
  • An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc.
  • To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple.
  • Hence, to scratch or tear.
  • To become fretted or dimpled on the surface, as water when agitated or running over a rough bottom; to be covered with small waves or undulations, as a field of grain.
  • To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore.
  • To fret or dimple, as the surface of running water; to cover with small waves or undulations; as, the breeze rippled the lake.
  • The fretting or dimpling of the surface, as of running water; little curling waves.
  • A little wave or undulation; a sound such as is made by little waves; as, a ripple of laughter.
  • a small wave on the surface of water or other liquids for which the driving force is not gravity, but surface tension.
  • the residual AC component in the DC current output from a rectifier, expressed as a percentage of the steady component of the current.
  • of Ripple
  • A small ripple.
  • Having ripples; as, ripply water; hence, resembling the sound of rippling water; as, ripply laughter; a ripply cove.
  • One who rivets.
  • Seeking information; authorized to examine witnesses or ascertain facts; as, a rogatory commission.
  • Salic.
  • Causing or inducing sleep; soporific; dormitive; as, a somniferous potion.
  • Driving away sleep.
  • Having the form of a spear.
  • To sprinkle; to scatter.
  • To destroy.
  • Relating to expense; regulating expense or expenditure.
  • Able to sway.
  • Alt. of Talmudical
  • To shift; to practice evasion; to use subterfuges; to shuffle.
  • Muddy; oozy; slimy; also, growing in muddy places.
  • Of or pertaining to a city; urban.
  • Resembling nettles; -- said of several natural orders allied to urticaceous plants.

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