mfn. verbal, effected or caused by words, consisting in words, communicated by speech (with abhinaya m. a declamatory speech; with vināśa m. threatened destruction; pāruṣye daṇḍa-vācike, the two violences i.e. blows and words, or assault and slander), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.
m. a short expression for vāg-āśīr-datta, [Pāṇ. v, 3, 84], Vārtt. 3, [Pat.]
n. a verbal commission or message, [Naiṣ.]; [Śiś.]; [Rājat.]
news, tidings, intelligence, [W.]