two cross sticks joined in the middle for twisting cord, string, heap

holding, keeping, sustaining, preserving (used as last member of Hindi compounds)

go waste, remain unused

persist in one's ways, keep one's evil ways

to go waste, lay unused, remain unutilized or become useless

to make up a party or side, to make up a standard to weigh with

remark said when someone forgets their origins or real self and adopts alien way, e.g. speaking in Persian to people who do not know it

distance between two legs

misdeed, result of hard work

counter-balancing weight

to convict a person who has commented on crime, putting one's work on the head of another

get arrested

be placed, be kept, be put down

there is nothing in it now

surely to happen, the outcome is obvious

there is nothing in it

(something) to be ready

to balance, to counterpoise

weigh

mourning, lamentation (esp. with breast-beating), sound of breast-beating, , intensely, noisily