ēṟṟm (p. 79) s. Rise, ascent, acclivity, உயர்வு. 2. Superiority, excellence, pre-eminence, மேன்மை. 3. Fame, புகழ். 4. Excess, preponderance, மிகுதி. 5. Increase, பெருக் கம். 6. The flow of the tide, நீரேற்றம். 7. A lever or shaft for drawing water for irrigation, ஏற்றமரம். ஏற்றக்கால், s. The supporters of a beam for irrigation, துலாவைத்தாங்குங்கால். ஏற்றக்குறைச்சல்--ஏற்றத்தாழ்ச்சி, ஏற்றத்தாழ்வு, s. Superiority and inferiority, highness and lowness, உயர்வு தாழ்வு. 2. Disparity, difference, disagreement, that which is greater or smaller, &c., வேற்றுமை. ஏற்றக்கோல், s. A bamboo pole with which water is drawn from a well, ஏற்றக்கழி. ஏற்றச்சால், s. A bucket used for irrigation, நிரிறைக்குஞ்சால். ஏற்றமடல், s. The supporting timbers on which the well-sweep oscillates, being generally attached to a pillar which is fixed in the ground. ஏற்றமரம், s. The well-sweep, the picotta. 85)

nempu (p. 279) s. [prov. நென்பு.] A nail without a head, a nail or peg sharp at both ends for joining the seams of boards, இருகூர்ஆணி. 2. Ribs or rounds of a ladder, ஏணிப்பழு. 3. Pins or ribs joining together the two beams of a well-sweep, serving also as steps for the man who treads it, ஏற்றமடலாணி. 4. [in mechanics.] The lever, உலுக்குமரம். 5. [prov.] Ribs, விலாவெலும்பு. அவனுக்குப்பாரஞ்சுமந்துநெம்புகழன்றது. He is greatly fatigued; (lit.) he has broken the நெம்பு of his back. நெம்புத்தடி--நெம்புதடி, s. A lever, as நெம்பு. (c.) 75)

mṭl (p. 339) s. Any thing flat and long, especially the leaves of the cocoa, palmyra, areka, plantain, screw-pine (தாழை) and wild date, Ph&oe;nix farinifera, ஈந்துமுதலியவற் றின்ஏடு. 2. A stand for sacred ashes. See திருநீற்றுமடல். 3. A poem, figuratively describing a disappointed lover riding on a palmyra-stem, ஓர்பிரபந்தம். 4. Stem of a palmyra branch for the above purpose. 5. Eye-lid, கண்ணிமை. 6. Husk enclosing the ears of maize, சோளக்கதிர்முதலியவற்றின் பொத்தி. 7. A flower-petal, பூவிதழ். 8. The standing pole of a well-sweep, ஏற்றமடல். 9. [prov.] A subsidiary stream or channel forming an angle with the main channel-as சிறுவாய்க்கால். 1. The external border of the ear, காதுமடல். 11. The shoulderblade and upper arm, தோள்மடல். மடலரிதாரம், s. Leaf-orpiment. மடலூர, inf. [in love poetry.] To ride on a palmyra-branch for a horse--as a disappointed lover. மடல்விரிய, inf. [poet. மடலவிழ.] To expand as a pine, or plantain-flowersheath. மடற்பரி--மடன்மா, s. [fig.] A palmyra stem used as a horse. மடற்பனை, s. A rough palmyra-tree difficult to ascend, commonly கங்குப்பனை. 2. [fig.] A learned man unwilling to communicate his knowledge; being one of the four classes of teachers. (நன்.) மடற்றுத்தம், s. Impure carbonate of Zinc, Calamine. [Ains. v. I. p. 574.] 81)