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Meaning of દંભી in English

  • Easily gulled; that may be duped.
  • Alt. of Hypocarpium
  • A fleshy enlargement of the receptacle, or for the stem, below the proper fruit, as in the cashew. See Illust. of Cashew.
  • Producing fruit below the ground.
  • A furnace, esp. one connected with a series of small chambers and flues of tiles or other masonry through which the heat of a fire was distributed to rooms above. This contrivance, first used in bath, was afterwards adopted in private houses.
  • An astringent inspissated juice obtained from the fruit of a plant (Cytinus hypocistis), growing from the roots of the Cistus, a small European shrub.
  • A median process on the furculum, or merrythought, of many birds, where it is connected with the sternum.
  • Endearing; diminutive; as, the hypocoristic form of a name.
  • One who plays a part; especially, one who, for the purpose of winning approbation of favor, puts on a fair outside seeming; one who feigns to be other and better than he is; a false pretender to virtue or piety; one who simulates virtue or piety.
  • See Hypocritical.
  • Of or pertaining to a hypocrite, or to hypocrisy; as, a hypocriticalperson; a hypocritical look; a hypocritical action.
  • Partly crystalline; -- said of rock which consists of crystals imbedded in a glassy ground mass.
  • The quality of being impolitic; inexpedience; unsuitableness to the end proposed; bads policy; as, the impolicy of fraud.
  • Not polite; not of polished manners; wanting in good manners; discourteous; uncivil; rude.
  • That which is imposed or levied; a tax, tribute, or duty; especially, a duty or tax laid by goverment on goods imported into a country.
  • The top member of a pillar, pier, wall, etc., upon which the weight of an arch rests.
  • Alt. of Impostrix
  • Imposture.
  • Full of pretension; disposed to lay claim to more than is one's; presuming; assuming.

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