ū́ṣa m. (√ uṣ, [BRD.]; √ ūṣ, [T.]), salt ground, soil impregnated with saline particles, [TS.]; [AitBr. iv, 27, 9]; [ŚBr.]; [Mn. v, 120]; [Suśr.] &c. (according to the Brāhmaṇas also ‘cattle’)
a cleft, hole, [L.]
the cavity of the ear, [L.]
the Malaya mountain, [L.]
dawn, daybreak, [L.] (in the latter sense also n., [W.])
ū́ṣa f(A and I). soil impregnated with saline particles, sterile soil, [KātyŚr.]; [BhP.]