cl. 6. P. kṣipáti Ā. kṣipate ([MBh.] &c.; cl. 4. P. kṣipyati, only, [Bhaṭṭ.]; Subj. kṣipát; perf. cikṣepa, [MBh.] &c.; ep. also cikṣipe; fut. 2nd kṣepsyati, [MBh.] &c.; ep. also °te; inf. kṣeptum; cf. [Pāṇ. vii, 2, 10]; [Siddh.]), to throw, cast, send, despatch, [AV. ix, 1, 10] and [20]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] (Pass. pr. p. kṣipyat, [i, 1126]) &c. to move hastily (the arms or legs), [Mṛcch.]; [BhP. x, 36, 14]; to throw a glance (as the eye), [Bhartṛ. i, 94]; to strike or hit (with a weapon), [RV. i, 182, 1]-[3]; to put or place anything on or in (loc.), pour on, scatter, fix or attach to (loc.), [Yājñ. i, 230]; [Bhag.]; [Mṛcch.] &c.; to direct (the thoughts) upon (loc.), [Sarvad.]; to throw away, cast away, get rid of [Bhartṛ. ii, 69]; [Kathās.]; to lay (the blame) on (loc.), [Hit.]; to utter abusive words, insult, revile, abuse, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; ‘to disdain’ i.e. to excel, beat, outvie, [BhP. iv, 8, 24] and [15, 17]; to strike down, ruin, destroy, [BhP. vi, 1, 14]; [BrahmaP.]; (Ā. ‘to destroy one another, go to ruin’ Pot. 3. pl. kṣiperan, [MBh. iii, 1094]); to pass or while away (the time or night, kālam, kṣapām), [Kathās. lv, 154]; [xcii, 84]; to lose (time, kālam; cf. kālakṣepa), [R. vii, 80, 14]; to skip or pass over (a day, dinam.), [Car. vi, 3]; (in math.) to add, [Gol.] : Caus. P. kṣepayati, to cause to cast or throw into (antar), [Kathās. xiii, 160]; to throw into, [R. ii, 76, 16]; to cause to descend into (loc.), [Kathās. lxxv, 121]; to pass or while away (the night, kṣapām), [ib.] [lvi, 75]; (aor. Subj. 2. sg. cikṣipas) to hurt, injure, [RV. x, 16, 1] (cf. Subj. kṣepayat s.v. √ 2. kṣi);
[cf. Lat. sipo, dissipo, for xipo.]
kṣíp pas, f. pl. (only used in nom.; the instr. is formed fr. kṣípā, [RV. ix, 59, 57]) ‘the movable ones’, the fingers, [RV. iii], [v], [ix] ([Naigh. ii, 5]).
f. (in alg.) the quantity to be added to the square of the least root multiplied by the multiplicator (to render it capable of yielding an exact square root).