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a sort of mantle

  • 1 segestra

    sĕgestre, is, n. (collat. form sĕges-trĭa, ae, f., Varr. L. L. 5, § 166 Müll.: sĕ-gestra, ae, f., Edict. Diocl. p. 23), a covering, wrapper of straw or hides for shielding goods or persons from the weather: segestre, diphthera, diphthera ploiou, Gloss. Vet.— Sing.: segestre, Lucil. ap. Non. 537, 10.— Plur., Varr. ap. Non. 11, 16; Plin. 13, 12, 23, § 76; Edict. Diocl. p. 23.—As a sort of mantle:

    segestri vel lodiculā involutus,

    Suet. Aug. 83.

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  • 2 segestre

    sĕgestre, is, n. (collat. form sĕges-trĭa, ae, f., Varr. L. L. 5, § 166 Müll.: sĕ-gestra, ae, f., Edict. Diocl. p. 23), a covering, wrapper of straw or hides for shielding goods or persons from the weather: segestre, diphthera, diphthera ploiou, Gloss. Vet.— Sing.: segestre, Lucil. ap. Non. 537, 10.— Plur., Varr. ap. Non. 11, 16; Plin. 13, 12, 23, § 76; Edict. Diocl. p. 23.—As a sort of mantle:

    segestri vel lodiculā involutus,

    Suet. Aug. 83.

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  • 3 segestria

    sĕgestre, is, n. (collat. form sĕges-trĭa, ae, f., Varr. L. L. 5, § 166 Müll.: sĕ-gestra, ae, f., Edict. Diocl. p. 23), a covering, wrapper of straw or hides for shielding goods or persons from the weather: segestre, diphthera, diphthera ploiou, Gloss. Vet.— Sing.: segestre, Lucil. ap. Non. 537, 10.— Plur., Varr. ap. Non. 11, 16; Plin. 13, 12, 23, § 76; Edict. Diocl. p. 23.—As a sort of mantle:

    segestri vel lodiculā involutus,

    Suet. Aug. 83.

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  • 4 Kilkenny

    A sort of mantle which resembles a wrapper and worn by ladies.

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  • 5 falluing

    a mantle, so Irish, Middle Irish fallaing, Latinised form phalingis (Geraldus), dat.pl., Welsh ffaling; from Latin palla, mantle, pallium. Cf. Old French pallion, Middle English pallioun. Middle English falding, sort of coarse cloth (Hend.).

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  • 6 manteo

    m.
    1 a long cloak or mantle worn by priests and formerly by students.
    2 sort of woollen petticoat.
    3 tossing.
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: mantear.
    * * *
    1 tossing in a blanket
    * * *
    SM [de hombre] long cloak; [de mujer] full skirt
    * * *
    manteo nm
    [en manta, brazos] = practice of tossing a person up in the air repeatedly and catching them either in a blanket or the linked arms of several people

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  • 7 अर्ध _ardha

    अर्ध (Written also as अर्द्ध) a. [ऋध्-णिच्-अच्; according to Nir. from धृ, or ऋध्] Half, forming a half (divided into 2 parts); अर्ध-अर्ध the one half-the other half.
    -र्धः [ऋध्-घञ्]
    1 A place, region, country; house, habitation (Ved.).
    -2 Increase (वृद्धि).
    -3 Wind.
    -4 A part, portion, side.
    -र्धम्, -र्धः 1 A half, half portion; पचाति नेमो न हि पक्षदर्धः Rv.1.27.18. सर्वनाशे समुत्पन्ने अर्धं त्यजति पण्डितः, गतमर्धं दिवसस्य V.2; पूर्वार्धः first half; so उत्तर˚ latter half; दक्षिण˚ southern half (half on the right side); so अवर˚, जघन˚, पर˚, ग्राम˚ &c.; यदर्धे विच्छिन्नम् Ś.1.9 divided in half; ऋज्वायतार्धम् M.27; R.3.59; 12.99; रात्रौ तदर्धं गतम् Bh.3.17; one part of two, apart, partly (Ved.);
    -2 Nearness, proximity; see अर्धदेव. (अर्ध may be compounded with almost every noun and adjective; as first member of compound with nouns it means 'a half of' and forms an एकदेशिसमास or तत्पुरुष; ˚कायः = अर्धं कायस्य; ˚पिप्पली, ˚मार्गः; ˚पुरुषः &c.; with adjectives, it has an adverbial force; ˚श्याम half dark; ˚भुक्त half eaten; so ˚पिष्ट, ˚पूर्ण &c.; with numeral adjectives it may mean either 'a half of' or 'with an additional half'; ˚शतम् half of 1 i. e. 5; or अर्धेन सहितं शतम् i. e. 15; with ordinal numerals 'with a half or that number'; ˚तृतीयम् containing two and the third only half; i. e. two and a half; so ˚चतुर्थ three and a half. cf. अर्धं खण्डे समांशके Nm.
    -Comp. -अक्षि n. side-look, wink. नगरस्त्रीशङ्कितार्धाक्षिदृष्टम् Mk.8.42.
    -अङ्गम् half the body.
    -अन्तरम् half the distance; ˚एकपदता a fault in composition; see S. D. 575.
    -अंशः a half, the half.
    -अंशिन् a. sharing a half.
    -अर्धः, -र्धम् 1 half of a half, quarter; च<?>रर्धार्धभागाभ्यां तामयोजयतामुभे R.1.56.
    -3 half and half.
    -अवभेदकः 1 pain in half the head, hemicrania (Mar. अर्धशिशी). (
    -कम्) dividing in equal parts.
    -अवशेष a. having only a half left.
    -अकारः 1 half the letter अ.
    -2 N. of अवग्रह q. v.
    -असिः A sword with one edge, a small sword; अर्धासिभिस्तथा खङ्गैः Mb.7.137.15.
    -आसनम् 1 half a seat; अर्धासनं गोत्रभिदो$धितष्ठौ R.6.73; मम हि दिवौकसां समक्षमर्धासनोपवेशितस्य Ś.7 (it being considered a mark of a very great respect to make room for a guest &c. on the same seat with oneself).
    -2 greeting kindly or with great respect.
    -3 exemption from censure.
    -इन्दुः 1 the half or crescent moon.
    -2 semicircular impresion of a finger-nail, crescent-shaped nail-print; कुचयोर्नखाङ्कैरर्धेन्दुलीलैः N.6.25.
    -3 an arrow with a cre- scent-shaped head (= अर्धचन्द्र below.); ˚मौलि N. of Śiva तत्र व्यक्तं दृषदि चरणन्यासमर्धेन्दुमौलेः Me.57.
    -इन्द्र a. that of which a half belongs to Indra.
    -उक्त a. half said or uttered; रामभद्र इति अर्धोक्ते महाराज U.1.
    -उक्तिः f. a broken speech; an interrupted speech.
    -उदकम् water reaching half the body.
    -उदयः 1 the rising of the half moon.
    -2 partial rise.
    -3 a kind of parvan; ˚आसनम् a sort of posture in meditatiou.
    -उदित a.
    1 half risen.
    -2 half uttered.
    -ऊरुक a. [अर्धमूरोः अर्धोरु तत्र काशते] reaching to the middle of the thighs.
    (-कम्) 1 a short petti-coat (Mar. परकर); see चण्डातक.
    -2 mantle, veil.
    -कर्णः Radius, half the diameter.
    -कृत a. half done, incomplete.
    -केतुः N. of Rudra.
    -कोशः a moiety of one's treasure.
    -कौडविक a. measuring half a kuḍava.
    -खारम्, -री a kind of measure, half a Khāri; P.V.4.11.
    -गङ्गा N. of the river Kāverī; (स्नानादौ गङ्गास्नानार्धफलदायिनी); so ˚जाह्नवी
    -गर्भ a. Ved.
    1 in the middle of the womb; सप्तार्धगर्भा भुवनस्य रेतो Rv. 1.164.36.
    -2 N. of the rays of the Sun.
    -गुच्छः a necklace of 24 strings.
    -गुञ्जा half a gunja.
    -गोलः a hemisphere.
    -चक्रवर्तिन्, -चक्रिन् m. N. of the nine black Vasudevas and the nine enemies of Viṣṇu.
    -चन्द्र a. crescent-shaped. (
    -न्द्रः)
    1 the half moon, crescent moon; सार्धचन्द्रं बिभर्ति यः Ku.6.75.
    -2 the semicircular marks on a peacock's tail.
    -3 an arrow with a crescent-shaped head; अर्धचन्द्रमुखैर्बाणैश्चिच्छेद कदलीसुखम् R.12.96. cf. अर्धचन्द्रस्तदाकारे बाणे बर्हे शिखण्डिनः Nm.
    -4 crescent-shaped nail-print.
    -5 the hand bent into a semicircle, as for the purpose of seizing or clutching anything; ˚न्द्र दा to seize by the neck and turn out; दीयतामेतस्यार्धचन्द्रः Pt.1. (
    -द्रा) N. of a plant (कर्णस्फोट).
    -चन्द्राकार, -चन्द्राकृति a. half-moonshaped.
    -चन्द्रकम् A semi-circular pearl. Kau. (
    -रः, -ति f.) meniscus.
    -चन्द्रिका N. of a climbing plant. (Mar. तिळवण).
    -चित्र a. Half-transparent; A kind of marble; अर्धाङ्गदृश्यमानं च तदर्धचित्रमिति स्मृतम् Māna.51.1.
    -चोलकः a short bodice.
    -जरतीयन्यायः a kind of न्याय, न चेदानीमर्धजरतीयं लभ्यं वृद्धिर्मे भविष्यति स्वरो नेति MBh.4.1. 78. See under न्याय.
    -जीविका, -ज्या The sine of an arc.
    -तनुः f. half the body.
    -तिक्तः N. of a plant (नेपालनिम्ब Mar. चिराईत).
    -तूरः a kind of musical instrument.
    -दिनम्, दिवसः 1 half a day, mid-day.
    -2 a day of 12 hours.
    -देवः 1 demi-god. इन्द्रं न वृत्रतुरमर्धदेवम् Rv. 4.42.8-9.
    -2 Ved. being near the gods; (देवानां समीपे बर्तमानः Sāy.).
    -द्रौणिक a. measuring a half droṇa.
    -धारः a knife or lancet with a single edge (one of the 2 surgical instruments mentioned by Suśruta).
    -नाराचः a crescent-shaped iron-pointed arrow; नाराचानर्धनाराचाञ्शस्त्राणि विविधानि च Mbh.2.51.35; गृध- लक्षवेधी अर्धनाराचः V.5.
    -नारायणः a form of Viṣṇu.
    -नारीशः, -नारीश्वरः, -नारी, -नटेश्वरः a form of Śiva, (half male and half female) cf.... पतिरपि जगता- मर्धनारीश्वरो$भूत् Sūkti.5.99.
    -नावम् half a boat.
    -निशा midnight.
    -पञ्चम a. Four and half; युक्तश्छन्दांस्य- धीयीत मासान्विप्रो$र्धपञ्चमान् Ms.4.95.
    -पञ्चशत् f. twenty five Ms.8.268.
    -पणः a measure containing half paṇa Ms.8.44.
    -पथम् half way. (
    -पथे) midway भृतिमर्ध- पथे सर्वान्प्रदाप्य Y.2.198.
    -पादः half a pāda or foot; अर्धपादं किष्कुविष्कम्भमुद्धृत्य Dk.19.
    -पादा The plant भूम्यामलकी (Mar. भूईआवळी).
    -पादिक a. having half a foot; सद्यः कार्यो$र्धपादिकः Ms.8.325.
    -पाञ्चालिक a. born or produced in the ardhapanchāla.
    -पारावतः a kind of pigeon (अर्धेनाङ्गेन पारावत इव). The fran- colin partridge.
    -पुलायितः a half gallop, canter; चित्रं चकार पदमर्धपुलायितेन Śi.5.1.
    -प्रहर half a watch, one hour and a half.
    -प्राणम् A kind of joinery resembling the shape of a bisected heart; मूलाग्रे कीलकं युक्तमर्धप्राणमिति स्मृतम् । Māna.17.99.
    -भागः a half, half a share or part; तदर्धभागेन लभस्व काङ्क्षितम् Ku.5.5; R.7.45.
    -भागिक a. sharing a half; मृते पितरि कुर्युस्तं भ्रातरस्त्वर्धभागिकम्म् Y.2.134.
    -भाज् a. sharing entitled to a half; अर्धभाग्रक्षणाद्राजा Ms.8.39.
    -2 a companion, sharer; देवानामर्धभागासि Av.6.86.3.
    -भास्करः mid-day.
    -भेदः Hemiplegia (अर्धाङ्गवायुः); Suś.
    -भोटिका a kind of cake.
    -भ्रमः -मकः a kind of artificial composition; for instances see Ki.15.27; Śi.19.72. The Sar. K. describes it as a figure of speech thus:-- आहुरर्धभ्रमं नाम श्लोकार्धभ्रमणं यदि.
    -मागधी N. of a dialect in which many of Jaina Canonical books are written. It is so named perhaps because many of the characteristics of Māgadhi are found in it.
    -माणवकः, -माणवः a necklace of 12 strings (माणवक consisting of 24.)
    -मात्रा 1 half a (short) syllable. अर्धमात्रालाघवेन पुत्रोत्सवं मन्यन्ते वैयाकरणाः Pari Sik.
    -2 a term for a consonant (व्यञ्जनं चार्धमात्रकम्).
    -मार्गे ind. mid-way; बन्दीकृता विबुधशत्रुभिरर्धमार्गे V.1.3.
    -मासः half a month, a fortnight.
    -मासतम = ˚मासिक see P.V.2.57.
    -मासिक a.
    1 happening every fortnight.
    -2 lasting for a fortnight; ये$र्धमासाश्च च मासाश्च Mahānārā. 25. Y.2.177.
    -मुष्टिः f. a half-clenched hand.
    -यामः half a watch.
    -रथः [अर्धः असंपूर्णः रथः रथी] a warrior who fights on a car with another (who is not so skilled as a रथी); रणे रणे$भिमानी च विमुखश्चापि दृश्यते । घृणी कर्णः प्रमादी च तेन मे$र्धरथो मतः Mb.
    -रात्रः [अर्ध रात्रेः]
    1 midnight; अथार्धरात्रे स्तिमितप्रदीपे R.16.4; स्थिते$र्धरात्रे Dk.19.
    -2 a night containing half a whole day of 24 hours.
    -रात्रार्धदिवसः equinox.
    -लभ्मीहरिः Hari having a form half like Lakṣmī.
    -विसर्गः, -विसर्ज- नीयः the Visarga sound before क्, ख्, प्, and फ्, so called because its sign (<?>) is the half of a Visarga (<?>).
    -वीक्षणम् a side-look, glance, leer.
    -वृद्ध a. middle-aged.
    -वृद्धिः The half of the interest or rent; Ms.8.15.
    -वैनाशिकः N. of the followers of Kaṇāda (arguing half perishableness).
    -वैशसम् half or incomplete murder; विधिना कृतमर्धवैशसं ननु मां कामवधे विमुञ्चता Ku.4.31.
    -व्यासः the radius of a circle.
    -शतम् 1 fifty.
    -2 One hundred and fifty; Ms.8.267.
    -शनम् [अर्धमशनस्य शकन्ध्वा˚] half a meal.
    -शफरः a kind of fish.
    -शब्द a. having a low voice.
    -शेष a. having only a half left.
    -श्याम a. half clouded.
    -श्लोकः half a śloka or verse.
    -सम a. equal to a half. (
    -मम्) N. of a class of metres in which the 1st and 3rd and 2nd and 4th lines have the same sylla- bles and Gaṇas; such as पुष्पिताग्रा.
    -सस्य a. half the crops, half grown.
    -सहः An owl.
    -सीरिन् m.
    1 a cultivator, ploughman who takes half the crop for his labour; शूद्रेषु दासगोपालकुलमित्रार्धसीरिणः Y.1.166.
    -2 = अर्धिक q. v.
    -हर, -हारिन् a. occupying the half (of the body); Ku.1.5; एको रागिषु राजते प्रियतमादेहार्ध- हारी हरः Bh.3.121.
    -हारः a necklace of 64 strings. A half chain, a kind of ornament; नक्षत्रमालामपि चार्धहारं सुवर्णसूत्रं परितः स्तनाभ्याम् Māna.5.297-98. cf. also Kau. A.2.11.
    -ह्रस्वः half a (short) syllable.

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  • 8 अवगुण्ठनम् _avaguṇṭhanam

    अवगुण्ठनम् 1 The act of covering the head of women; hiding, veiling.
    -2 A veil (for the face); (fig. also); अवगुण्ठनसंवीता कुलजाभिसरेद्यदि S. D.; अवगुण्ठनपटक्षेपं विधत्ते विधुः ibid; कृतशीर्षावगुण्ठनः Mu.6; उत्सृष्टसत्पुरुषोचितलज्जा- वगुण्ठनानाम् Ve.3; Mk.4.24; Śi.5.17.
    -3 A covering, पश्येष्टदारदारांस्ते भ्रष्टलज्जावगुण्ठनान् Rām.6.111.62. mantle (in general).
    -4 A sweeping broom.
    -Comp. -मुद्रा [अवगुण्ठनाय मुद्रा] a sort of religious ceremony; सव्यहस्त- कृता मुष्टिदीर्घा$धोमुखतर्जनी । अवगुण्ठनमुद्रेयमभितो भ्रमिता मता ॥

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  • 9 སྣམ་སྦྱར་

    [snam sbyar]
    sacred raiment with 32 patches, sort of loose mantle for priests

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  • 10 वर्ण


    várṇa
    m. ( orﾠ n. gaṇa ardharcâ̱di, prob. fr. 1. vṛi;

    ifc. f. ā) a covering, cloak, mantle L. ;
    a cover, lid Yājñ. III, 99 ;
    outward appearance, exterior, form, figure, shape, colour RV. etc. etc.;
    colour of the face, (esp.) good colour orﾠ complexion, lustre, beauty Mn. MBh. etc.;
    colour, tint, dye, pigment (for painting orﾠ writing) MBh. Kāv. etc.;
    colour = race, species, kind, sort, character, nature, quality, property (applied to persons andﾠ things) RV. etc. etc.;
    class of men, tribe, order, caste (prob. from contrast of colour between the dark aboriginal tribes andﾠ their fair conquerors;
    in RV. esp. applied to the Āryas andﾠ the Dāsas;
    but more properly applicable to the four principal classes described in Manu's code, viz. Brāhmans, Kshatriyas, Vaiṡyas, andﾠ Sūdras;
    the more modern word for « caste» being jāti;
    cf. IW. 210 n. 1) ib. ;
    a letter, sound, vowel, syllable, word Br. Prāt. etc.;
    a musical sound orﾠ note ( alsoﾠ applied to the voice of animals) MBh. R. Pañcat. ;
    the order orﾠ arrangement of a song orﾠ poem W. ;
    praise, commendation, renown, glory Mṛicch. Kum. Rājat. ;
    (in alg.) an unknown magnitude orﾠ quantity;
    (in arithm.) the figure, « one» ;
    (accord. toﾠ some) a co-efficient;
    a kind of measure L. (cf. - tāla);
    gold L. ;
    a religious observance L. ;
    one who wards off, expeller Sāy on RV. I, 104, 2 ;
    (ā) f. Cajanus Indicus L. ;
    n. saffron L. ;
    + cf. accord. toﾠ some,
    Slav. vranǔ, « black», « a crow» ;
    Lith. vâ̱rnas, « a crow»
    - वर्णकवि
    - वर्णकूपिका
    - वर्णकृत्
    - वर्णक्रम
    - वर्णगत
    - वर्णगुरु
    - वर्णग्रथणा
    - वर्णघनसारिणी
    - वर्णचारक
    - वर्णचित्रित
    - वर्णचौर
    - वर्णज
    - वर्णज्यायस्
    - वर्णज्येष्ठ
    - वर्णतनु
    - वर्णतन्त्रमाला
    - वर्णतर्णक
    - वर्णतर्णिका
    - वर्णतस्
    - वर्णता
    - वर्णत्व
    - वर्णताल
    - वर्णतूलि
    - वर्णतुलिका
    - वर्णतुली
    - वर्णद
    - वर्णदात्री
    - वर्णदीपिका
    - वर्णदूत
    - वर्णदूषक
    - वर्णदेवता
    - वर्णदेशना
    - वर्णद्वयमय
    - वर्णधर्म
    - वर्णनाथ
    - वर्णपटल
    - वर्णपत्त्र
    - वर्णपरिचय
    - वर्णपरिध्वंस
    - वर्णपरिध्वंसा
    - वर्णपाठ
    - वर्णपात
    - वर्णपात्र
    - वर्णपुष्प
    - वर्णपुष्पक
    - वर्णप्रकर्ष
    - वर्णप्रकाश
    - वर्णप्रबोध
    - वर्णप्रसादन
    - वर्णबुद्धि
    - वर्णभिन्न
    - वर्णभीरु
    - वर्णभेदविधि
    - वर्णभेदिनी
    - वर्णभैरव
    - वर्णमञ्चिका
    - वर्णमय
    - वर्णमातृ
    - वर्णमातृका
    - वर्णमात्र
    - वर्णमाला
    - वर्णयति
    - वर्णरत्नदीपिका
    - वर्णराशि
    - वर्णरेखा
    - वर्णलील
    - वर्णलेखा
    - वर्णलेखिका
    - वर्णवत्
    - वर्णवर्ति
    - वर्णवर्तिका
    - वर्णवादिन्
    - वर्णविक्रिया
    - वर्णविपर्यय
    - वर्णविलास
    - वर्णविलासिनी
    - वर्णविलोडक
    - वर्णविवेक
    - वर्णवृत्त
    - वर्णवैकृत
    - वर्णव्यतिक्रान्ता
    - वर्णव्यवस्था
    - वर्णव्यवस्थिति
    - वर्णशासन
    - वर्णश्रेष्ठ
    - वर्णसंयोग
    - वर्णसंसर्ग
    - वर्णसंहार
    - वर्णसंहिता
    - वर्णसंकर
    - वर्णसंघाट
    - वर्णसंघात
    - वर्णसमाम्नाय
    - वर्णसारभूतवर्णक्रम
    - वर्णस्थान
    - वर्णहीन

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