(p. 944) śilībhūta fossilized; petrified. 82)

(p. 935) śapa a finely woven large mat. 47)

(p. 951) ślatha loose, flaccid (শ্লথ চর্ম); dishevelled (শ্লথ করবী); blowsy (শ্লথ বেশবাস); slack, loose, loosened, slackened, relaxed (শ্লথ বন্ধন); not strict, lax (শ্লথ শাসন); tired, worn-out, fatigued শ্লথ দেহ); slow, tardy, slowed down, retarded (শ্লথগতি); not earnest or careful (সে পড়াশোনায় বড়ো শ্লথ). 128)

(p. 944) śikṣā learning; study; practice; education; teaching; instruction; a precept; a moral; a lesson; training; (sarcas.) a bitter lesson, punishment. শিক্ষা করা v. to learn; to study; to practise. শিক্ষা দেওয়া v. to teach; to educate; to school; to instruct; to train; (sarcas.) to reprove or punish severely, to teach one a lesson. শিক্ষা পাওয়া v. to receive instruction or training or education; (sarcas.) to receive reproof or punishment, to be taught a lesson. উচ্চশিক্ষা n. higher education. উচ্চমাধ্যমিকশিক্ষা higher secondary education. কলেজি শিক্ষা college education. কারিগরি শিক্ষা technical training. ̃অধিকর্তা n. the Director of Public Instruction, the Director of Education. ̃গুরু n. a teacher; a trainer, an instructor; a preceptor, a guru; an initiator. ̃গ্রহণ করা v. to receive education or training or instruction. ̃দাতা same as শিক্ষক fem. ̃দাত্রী । ̃দান করা same as শিক্ষা দেওয়া । ̃দীক্ষা n. secular and regular education and training; education and culture. ̃ধিকার the Education Directorate. ̃ধীন a. under training, apprenticed; receiving education; studying (under), being taught (by). ̃নবিশ n. an apprentice; an understudy; a novice, a probationer. ̃নবিশি n. apprenticeship; noviciate, novitiate. ̃নবিশি করা v. to serve apprenticeship; to study under. ̃পর্ষত্ n. an education board. ̃পীঠ n. a seat of learning. ̃প্রণালী n. a system or method of education or teaching or training. ̃প্রদ a. educative; didactic; instructive. ̃প্রাপ্ত a. trained; educated. ̃বিভাগ n. the Education Department. ̃বিস্তার n. spread of education. বিস্তার করা v. to spread education. ̃ব্রতী n. an educationist; one who has dedicated his life to the cause of education. ̃মন্ত্রক n. the Ministry of Education. ̃মন্ত্রী n. the Minister of Education. ̃মূলক a. educational. ̃র্থী a. desirous of learning; seeking education or instruction or training. n. a learner; a student, a pupil; an apprentice, an understudy, a novice; a trainee. ̃লাভ কর same as শিক্ষা পাওয়া । ̃সংস্কার n. educational reforms. ̃সচিব n. an education secretary. ̃সমিতি n. a council of education. ̃সম্বন্ধীয় a. educational. 35)

(p. 944) śikṣaka a teacher; a tutor (fem. tutoress, tutress); a professor; a trainer, an instructor (fem. instructress); a preceptor (fem. preceptress). ̃তা n. teachership; tutorage, tutorship; professorship; the profession of a teacher. শিক্ষকতা করা v. to work or act as a teacher, to teach. ̃সমিতি n. a teachers' council. 32)

(p. 935) śakāri the enemy or subduer of the Shakas (শক). 13)

(p. 944) śirani an oblation of sweets offered to deities or to the spirits of deceased holy persons. 67)

(p. 942) śābda relating to sounds or words; acoustic; phonetical; philological. শাব্দিক a. same as শাব্দ । n. one versed in acoustics; a phonetician; a philologist; a grammarian; a lexicographer. 16)

(p. 951) śōka mourning or grief. শোক করা v. to mourn, to grieve (for). ̃গাথা,̃গীতি n. an elegy; a dirge. ̃গ্রস্ত a. bereaved; grief-stricken. ̃চিহ্ন n. a sign or token of mourning. ̃জনক a. mournful; woeful, distressing, sad, lamentable. ̃যাত্রা n. a funeral procession. ̃সংগীত n. an elegy; a dirge. ̃সন্তপ্ত a. afflicted with grief, grief-stricken. ̃সভা n. a condolence meeting. ̃সাগর n. an ocean of grief. ̃সূচক a. indicating grief or mourning. শোকাকুল a. beside oneself with grief, overwhelmed with grief. শোকাগ্নি same as শোকানল । শোকাচ্ছন্ন a. beset or overwhelmed with grief. শোকাতুর same as শোকার্ত । শোকানল n. the burning fire of grief. শোকাবহ same as ̃জনক । শোকাবিষ্ট same as শোকাচ্ছন্ন । শোকাবেগ n. outburst of grief. শোকাভিভূত same as শোকাচ্ছন্ন । শোকার্ত a. grief-stricken. শোকোচ্ছ্বাস same as শোকাবেগ । 58)

(p. 951) śūdra the lowest of the four Hindu castes, Shudras; a shudra. শূদ্রা a. fem. a female shudra. শূদ্রাণী n. fem. a female shudra; a shudra's wife. শূদ্রী n. fem. a shudra's wife. 18)

(p. 949) śukatārā the vesper; (astr.) Venus. 27)

(p. 951) śrēṣṭhī a merchant prince; a merchant; a banker; an opulent man. 119)

(p. 935) śata hundred. a. many or innumerable. প্রতি শত per cent. শতক a. having a number of hundreds; hundred. n. a hundred; an aggregate of one hundred similar things (সদ্ভাবশতক); a century. ̃করা a. & adv. per cent. শতকরা হার, শতকরা হিসাব percentage. ˜কিয়া n. a table of numbers up to 1. ̃কোটি n. & a. hundred crore. □ a. countless, innumerable. ̃খণ্ড n. a hundred pieces. a. reduced or torn to hundred pieces; reduced or torn to pieces; tattered. ̃গুণ n. a hundred times. a. hundred times of; a hundred times. adv. to or by hundred times; a hundred times; many or countless times, in or to a great degree or extent, far. ̃গুণে adv. same as ̃গুণ (adv.). ̃গ্রন্হি a. patched at hundred places; tattered. ̃ঘ্নী n. a mythological missile which could kill a hundred persons at one stroke. ̃চ্ছিন্ন a. torn at hundred places; tattered. ̃তম a. hundredth. fem. ̃তমী । ̃দল n. a hundredpetalled or many-petalled object; the lotus. ̃দ্রু n. the river Sutlej. ̃ধা adv. in or to a hundred divisions; a hundred times as much; hundredfold; in or to numerous divisions. ̃ধার a. having a hundred ends or edges or streams. ̃ধারে adv. in hundred streams, in innumerable streams. ̃পদী n. the centipede; the scorpion; the earwig. ̃বর্ষজীবী same as শতায়ু । ̃বার্ষিক a. centennial. শতবার্ষিক উত্সব the centenary. ̃ভিষা n. the twenty-fourth of the twenty-seven stars according to Hindu astronomy. ̃মারী n. (sarcas.) a bad physician who has killed a hundred patients, a charlatan, a quacksalver, a quack. ̃মুখ a. having one hundred mouths or outlets; (fig.) voluble, glib. মুখী n. (hum.) a besom. ̃মুখে adv. glibly; in multifarious ways. ̃মূলী n. asparagus. ̃রূপা a. having many colours or shapes. ̃শ adv. by hundreds; hundredfold; hundred times over; over and over again. ̃সহস্র n. & a. hundred thousand. □ a. many, innumerable. 36)

(p. 944) śimula the silk-cotton plant. শিমুল তুলো n. silk-cotton, kapok. 61)

(p. 949) śudhā1 to repay, to pay back.