पीडन n. (
-नं)
1. Inflicting pain, paining, distressing.
2. Devastation, laying a country waste.
3. Squeezing, pressing, rubbing.
4. Tak- ing, holding, as in
पाणिपीडन “taking the hand” i. e. marrying.
5. Threshing, (corn).
6. An instrument for pressing.
7. An eclipse, (In astronomy).
8. A fault in the pronounciation of vowels.
E. पीड् to give pain, aff.
ल्युट्.