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sūci

or sūcī́, f. (prob. to be connected with sūtra, syūta &c. fr. √ siv, ‘to sew’, cf. sūkṣma; in [R.] once sūcinā instr.), a needle or any sharp-pointed instrument (e.g. ‘a needle used in surgery’, ‘a magnet’ &c.), [RV.] &c. &c.; the sharp point or tip of anything or any pointed object, [Kāv.]; [Car.]; [BhP.]; a rail or balustrade, [Divyāv.]; a small door-bolt, [L.]; ‘sharp file or column’, a kind of military array (accord. to [Kull.] on [Mn. vii, 187], ‘placing the sharpest and most active soldiers in front’), [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [Kām.]; an index, table of contents (in books printed in India; cf. -pattra below); a triangle formed by the sides of a trapezium produced till they meet, [Col.]; a cone, pyramid, [ib.]; (in astron.) the earth's disc in computing eclipses (or ‘the corrected diameter of the earth’), [Sūryas.]; gesticulation, dramatic action, [L.]; a kind of coitus, [L.]; sight, seeing (= dṛṣṭi), [L.]; m. (only ) the son of Niṣāda and a Vaiśyā, [L.] a maker of winnowing baskets &c. (cf. sūnā), [L.]