چکش chakish P (from چکيدن) s. f. The drip- ping or dropping (of water, &c.).

کشت kisht H s. f. Check (at chess).

کشت kisht P s. f. m. A sown field. کشت زار kisht-zār, s. A sown field. کشت و کار kisht-o-kār, s. Tilling and sowing.

کشتي kishtī P (prop. kashtī) s. f. (dakh. s. m.) 1. A ship, vessel, bark, boat, ark. 2. A tray. 3. A beggarʼs plate or pot. ¶ kushtī, s. f. Wrestling. کشتي گير kushtī-gīr, or کشتي باز kushtī-bāz, or کشتي گر kushtī-gar, A wrestler. کشتي کرنا kushtī karnā, To wrestle, struggle.

کشتيبان kishtī-bān P s. m. The master of a ves- sel, a boatman.

کشتکار kisht-kār P s. m. Husbandman, agricul- turalist: a sown field.

کشتکاري kisht-kār-ī P s. f. Husbandry, agricul- ture.

کشمش kishmish P s. f. Raisins, or rather cur- rants, small dried grapes without stones.

کشن kishan कृष्ण S̱. n. prop. The most cele- brated form of Vish̤ṇu or rather Vish̤ṇu himself; being distinct from the ten avatārs or incarna- tions. He was the younger brother of the third Rāma (or Balarāma). His parents were Va- sudeva and Devakī; but he was brought up in the house of Nanda and Yasodā, to conceal him from the tyrant Kansa, to whom it had been predicted that a child, the eighth of this family, would destroy him. In the family of Nanda he passed his youth, among the gopas and gopīs. During his childhood he vanquished the serpent Kāliya, and slew many giants and monsters. Afterward, he put the tyrant Kansa to death, protected Yudhish̤ṭhira, and kindled the war described in the Mahābhārata. He is the Apollo of the Hindūs, and is supposed by Colonel Wilford to have lived about 1300 years before Christ.

کشنيز kishnīz P s. m. Coriander. (Coriandrum sativum).

کشور kishwar P s. m. A climate, clime, region, country. کشور ستاني kishwar-sitānī, s. f. Con- quest.