सं-दंश m. m. compression (of the lips),
[MBh.] too great compression of the teeth in the pronunciation of vowels,
[RPrāt.] junction, connection,
[Subh.] a pair of tongs or pincers or nippers,
[AV.] ;
[Br.] ;
[Pur.] ;
[Suśr.] N. of those parts of the body which are used for grasping or seizing (as the thumb and forefinger together, the opposite eye-teeth, the nippers of a crab &c.),
[Yājñ.] ;
[VarBṛS.] ;
[Suśr.] ;
[Pañcat.] ;
[Kathās.] a
partic. नरक or hell (where the flesh of the wicked is tortured with pincers),
[Pur.] a chapter or section of a book,
[Dāyabh.] a
partic. एकाह,
[Vait.] the site of a village &c. (fixed according to the compass),
[L.]