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शील f. n. (and m.g. अर्धर्चा-दि; ifc. f(आ). ) habit, custom, usage, natural or acquired way of living or acting, practice, conduct, disposition, tendency, character, nature (often ifc. = ‘habituated’ or ‘accustomed’ or ‘disposed’ or ‘addicted to’, ‘practising’; cf. गुण-, दान-, पुण्य-श्° &c.), [VS.] &c. &c. good disposition or character, moral conduct, integrity, morality, piety, virtue, [Mn.] ; [MBh.] &c.
cf. [IW. 208]
शील (with Buddhists, ‘moral conduct’, is one of the 6 or 10 perfections or पारमिताs [q.v. ] and is threefold, viz. सम्भार, कुशल-संग्राह, सत्त्वा-र्थ-क्रिया, [Dharmas. 106] )
पञ्च-शील a moral precept (with, [Buddh.] there are 5 fundamental precepts or rules of moral conduct cf. ), [MWB. 126]
form, shape, beauty, [W.]
शील m. m. a large snake (in this sense prob. fr. √ 1.शी), [L.]
N. of a man, [Buddh.]
of a king, [Rājat.]
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