saṃ-dhí mfn. containing a conjunction or transition from one to the other &c., [TBr.]
saṃ-dhí m. (exceptionally f.; once in [MBh.] loc. pl. saṃdhīṣu) junction, connection, combination, union with (instr.), [KaṭhUp.]; [Subh.]
association, intercourse with (instr.), [MBh.]
comprehension, totality, the whole essence or scope of (comp.), [Pañcat.]
agreement, compact, [TBr.]
alliance, league, reconciliation, peace between (gen.) or with (instr. with or without saha), making a treaty of peace, negotiating alliances (one of a king's six courses of action See guṇa; many kinds are specified, e.g. adṛṣṭa-puruṣa, ucchinna, kāñcana, kapāla, saṃtāna, qq.vv.), [Mn.]; [Yājñ.]; [Hit.] &c.
euphonic junction of final and initial letters in grammar (every sentence in Sanskṛt being regarded as a euphonic chain, a break in which occurs at the end of a sentence and is denoted by a Virāma or Avasāna, ‘stop’; this euphonic coalition causing modifications of the final and initial letters of the separate words of a sentence and in the final letters of roots and stems when combined with terminations to form such words), [Prāt.]; [Kathās.]; [Sāh.]
contrivance, management, [Ragh.]; [Daś.]
place or point of connection or contact, juncture, hinge, boundary, boundary line, [TS.]; [Āpast.]; [MBh.] &c.
critical juncture, crisis, opportune moment, [MW.]
a joint, articulation (of the body; esp. applied to the five junctures of the parts of the eye), [RV.] &c. &c.
interstice, crevice, interval, [MBh.]
the space between heaven and earth, horizon, [ŚBr.]; [GṛŚrS.]
the interval between day and night, twilight (= saṃ-dhyā), [VS.] &c. &c.
a seam, [Amar.]
a fold, [Pañcat.]
a wall or the hole or cavity or breach in a wall made by a housebreaker (acc. with √ chid or bhid or Caus. of ut-√ pad, ‘to make a breach in a wall’), [Mn.]; [Mṛcch.]; [Daś.]
the vagina or vulva, [L.]
a juncture or division of a drama (reckoned to be five, viz. mukha, pratimukha, garbha, vimarśa, and nirvahaṇa, qq.vv.; or one of the 14 kinds of nirvahaṇa or catastrophe), [Bhar.]; [Daśar.] &c.
a period at the expiration of each Yuga or age (equivalent to one sixth of its duration and intervening before the commencement of the next; occurring also at the end of each Manv-antara and Kalpa), [W.]
a pause or rest, [ib.]
a part, portion, piece of anything, [AitBr.]; [Hariv.]; [Naiṣ.], Sch.
a partic. Stotra, [Br.]
(in mensuration) the connecting link of a perpendicular, [ib.]
the common side of a double triangle, [Śulbas.]
= sāvakāśa, [L.]
N. of a son of Prasuśruta, [BhP.]
saṃ-dhí f. N. of a goddess presiding over junction or union, [VS.]