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Meaning of சேவல் in English

  • A cock, so called from the clearness or loudness of his voice in crowing.
  • The male of birds, particularly of gallinaceous or domestic fowls.
  • A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.
  • A chief man; a leader or master.
  • The crow of a cock, esp. the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.
  • A faucet or valve.
  • The style of gnomon of a dial.
  • The indicator of a balance.
  • The bridge piece which affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.
  • To set erect; to turn up.
  • To shape, as a hat, by turning up the brim.
  • To set on one side in a pert or jaunty manner.
  • To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation.
  • To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing.
  • The act of cocking; also, the turn so given; as, a cock of the eyes; to give a hat a saucy cock.
  • The notch of an arrow or crossbow.
  • The hammer in the lock of a firearm.
  • To draw the hammer of (a firearm) fully back and set it for firing.
  • To draw back the hammer of a firearm, and set it for firing.
  • A small concial pile of hay.
  • To put into cocks or heaps, as hay.
  • A small boat.
  • A corruption or disguise of the word God, used in oaths.
  • Wearing a cockade.
  • A game played with sheep's bones instead of dice
  • The bone used in playing the game; -- called also huckle bone.
  • A beetle of the genus Melolontha (esp. M. vulgaris) and allied genera; -- called also May bug, chafer, or dorbeetle.
  • Alt. of Cockcrowing
  • The time at which cocks first crow; the early morning.
  • of Cock
  • To treat with too great tenderness; to fondle; to indulge; to pamper.
  • One given to cockfighting.
  • A small dog of the spaniel kind, used for starting up woodcocks, etc.
  • A rustic high shoe or half-boots.
  • A young cock.
  • of Cocker
  • The rounded or pointed top of a grinding mill spindle, forming a pivot on which the stone is balanced.
  • A child's rocking-horse.
  • A high or tall horse.
  • Lifted up, as one is on a tall horse.
  • Lofty in feeling; exultant; proud; upstart.
  • Cockfighting.
  • A bivalve mollusk, with radiating ribs, of the genus Cardium, especially C. edule, used in Europe for food; -- sometimes applied to similar shells of other genera.
  • A cockleshell.
  • The mineral black tourmaline or schorl; -- so called by the Cornish miners.
  • The fire chamber of a furnace.
  • A hop-drying kiln; an oast.
  • The dome of a heating furnace.
  • To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting.
  • A plant or weed that grows among grain; the corn rose (Luchnis Githage).
  • The Lotium, or darnel.
  • A coarse, composite weed, having a rough or prickly fruit; one of several species of the genus Xanthium; -- called also clotbur.
  • of Cockle
  • Inclosed in a shell.
  • Wrinkled; puckered.
  • One who takes and sells cockles.
  • One of the shells or valves of a cockle.
  • A light boat.
  • An upper loft; a garret; the highest room in a building.
  • A cockfight.
  • An effeminate person; a spoilt child.
  • A native or resident of the city of London; -- used contemptuously.
  • Of or relating to, or like, cockneys.
  • The region or home of cockneys; cockneys, collectively.
  • To form with the manners or character of a cockney.
  • Characteristic of, or resembling, cockneys.
  • The characteristics, manners, or dialect, of a cockney.
  • of Cockney
  • A game in which trinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players; -- so called from an ancient popular sport which consisted in "shying" or throwing cudgels at live cocks.
  • An object at which stones are flung.
  • A variety of Crataegus, or hawthorn (C. Crus-galli), having long, straight thorns; -- called also Cockspur thorn.
  • A large, highly esteemed, edible fish of India (Lates calcarifer); -- also called begti.
  • Pert.
  • Roast.
  • See Roust, v. t.
  • The pole or other support on which fowls rest at night; a perch.
  • A collection of fowls roosting together.
  • To sit, rest, or sleep, as fowls on a pole, limb of a tree, etc.; to perch.
  • Fig.; To lodge; to rest; to sleep.
  • of Roost
  • The male of the domestic fowl; a cock.
  • Alt. of Roysterer
  • An African wild cat (Felis serval) of moderate size. It has rather long legs and a tail of moderate length. Its color is tawny, with black spots on the body and rings of black on the tail.
  • Of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as, servile flattery; servile fear; servile obedience.
  • Held in subjection; dependent; enslaved.
  • Not belonging to the original root; as, a servile letter.
  • Not itself sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceeding vowel, as e in tune.
  • An element which forms no part of the original root; -- opposed to radical.

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