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f A class of female imps or fiends, or an individual of it. Hag, witch, beldam, fury.
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स्त्री. १ डाकिण ; चेटकीण . २ . ( ल . ) ( विशेषतः ) अत्यंत कुरुप ; हिडीस व चेटूक करणारी ठाकूर जातीची स्त्री . ३ . ( ल . ) क्रूर , जख्ख , कुरुप , भयंकर स्त्री ; जखीण ; हडळ . [ सं . डाकिनी ]
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A class of female imps or fiends, or an individual of it. Applied esp. to the women of the ठाकूर caste, who are hideously ugly, and who deal in witchcraft &c. and as a term of reviling to old women gen.; corresponding with Hag, witch, beldam, fury, fright, malkin.
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