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vartī

var°tī f. anything rolled or wrapped round, a pad, a kind of bandage bound round a wound, [Suśr.]


any cosmetic prepared from various substances (used as a remedy in the form of a paste or pill), [ib.]


ointment, unguent, collyrium, [Uttarar.]; [Kathās.]


a suppository, [ib.]


the wick of a lamp, [MBh.]; [VarBṛS.]; [Kathās.]


a magical wick, [Pañcat.]


a limp, [L.]


the projecting threads or unwoven ends of woven cloth, a kind of fringe, [L.]


a projecting rim or protuberance round a vessel, [KātyŚr.]


a swelling or polypus in the throat, [Suśr.]


a swelling or protuberance formed by internal rupture, [ib.] (cf. mūtra-v°)


a surgical instrument, bougie, [L.]


a streak, line (see dhūma-v°).


= 1. varti, q.v.