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कोश koś, or कोष kosṅ, s.m. A vessel, a receptacle; a box; a cupboard, etc.; a sheath, scabbard; a case, a covering, cover; sheath or integument (of a plant); a bud; a shell, a pod, seed. vessel; a nutmeg; a nut-shell; cocoon (of a silkworm); the vulva; the womb; an egg; a testicle; the scrotum;—store-room; depository; a treasury; a store; treasure; an abode;—a vocabulary, dictionary, lexicon, thesaurus;—judicial trial, ordeal (by fire, water, poison, the balance, heated balls of iron, boiling oil, etc.); attesting a deity by thrice-repeated drinking of the water in which some idol has been washed; the water used at an ordeal; an oath:—koshādhyaksh (˚sha+adh˚), s.m. Superintendent of the treasury, keeper orprotector of treasure, a treasurer; an epithet of Kuver:—koshkarttā(or koś-karltā), s.m. Maker of a vocabulary; a lexicographer:—koś-vr̤iddhi (or kosh-vr̤iddhi), s.f. Swelled testicle, enlargement of the scrotum (from hernia or hydrocele, etc.).