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tvacत्वच्cl. 6. °cati, to cover, [Dhātup.]
tvác f. skin (of men, serpents &c.), hide (of goats, cows &c.), [RV.] &c. (kṛṣṇā́, ‘the black man’, [i, 130, 8])
a cow's hide (used in pressing out the Soma), [i], [iii], [ix]; [VS. xix, 82]
a leather bag, [RV. v, 33, 7]
(fig. ‘a cloud’) [i] & [ix]
bark, rind, peel, [RV.] &c.
Cassia bark, [VarBṛS. lxxvii, 6]; [12]; [24]; [32]
cinnamon, cinnamon tree, [L.]
a cover (of a horse), [RV. viii, 1, 32]
surface (of the earth), [i, 145, 5]; [x, 68, 4]; [AV. vi, 21, 1]; [TBr. i, 5, 5, 4]
with kṛṣṇā́ or ásiknī, ‘the black cover’, darkness, [RV. ix, 41, 1] and [73, 5]
a mystical N. of the letter ya, [RāmatUp. i, 77.]
tvacāत्वचाf. skin, [L.]
tvacaत्वचn. skin (ifc. See mukta-, mṛdu-), [Uṇ. ii, 63], Sch.
cinnamon, cinnamon tree, [R. iii, 39, 22]; [Suśr.]
Cassia bark, [L.]
cf. guḍa-; tanu- and pṛthak-tvacā.
tvacasत्वचस्tva°cas See sá-, sū́rya-, híraṇya-.
tvacyaत्वच्यtva°cya mfn. conducive to healthiness of skin, [Suśr. i, 45, 7, 3]; [46, 2, 11.]
tvacanaत्वचनtva°cana n. skinning, [Dhātup. xvii, 13.]
tvacayaत्वचयtva°caya Nom. °yati, to skin, [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 25.]
tvacitaत्वचितtva°cita mfn. skinned, [HPariś. ii, 23.]
tvacīyasत्वचीयस्tva°cīyas mfn. having a better skin, [Pāṇ. v, 3, 65], [Kāś.]
tvacasyaत्वचस्यtva°casyà mfn. being in the skin, [AV. ii, 33, 7.]
tvaciṣṭhaत्वचिष्ठtva°ciṣṭha mfn. having the best or an excellent skin, [Pāṇ. v, 3, 65], [Kāś.]
tvacāyaniत्वचायनिtva°cāyani m. patr. fr. °c, [Pāṇ. iv, 1, 95], Vārtt. 1, [Pat.]
tvacisāraत्वचिसारtva°ci-sāra m. ([vi, 3, 9], [Kāś.]) = tvak-s° a bamboo, [Bhpr. v, 3, 153.]
tvacāpattraत्वचापत्त्रtva°cā-pattra n. Cassia bark, [L.]