khe—'ṭa m. ‘moving in the air’, a planet
the ascending node or Rāhu, [W.]
m. a village, residence of peasants and farmers, small town (half a Pura, [Hcat.]), [MBh. iii, 13220]; [Jain.]; [BhP.]; [VP.]; the phlegmatic or watery humor of the body, phlegm, [Car. iv, 4]
snot, glanders, [L.]
a horse, [L.]
the club of Balarāma, [L.]
m. n. hunting, chase (cf. ā-kheṭa), [L.]
a shield, [Hcat. i, 5, 529] [[MārkP.]] and [532] [[BṛNārP.]], [ii, 1]
(ifc.) expressing defectiveness or deterioration ([Pāṇ. vi, 2, 126]; e.g. nagara-, ‘a miserable town’, [ib.], [Kāś.]; upānat-, ‘a miserable shoe’, [ib.], [Kāś.]; muni-, ‘a miserable sage’, [Bālar. ii])
n. grass, [L.]
mfn. low, vile, [Bhar. xxxiv, 109]
n. armed, [W.]
khe'ṭa See 3. khá, p. 334, col. 3.