s. m, letter, note; hand- writing; a cut, or scratch; a line, a stroke; a regular line of beard or mustachoes, trimming or pulling out the stray hairs; the nestling place of a hare; (Poṭ.) a a disease characterised by fever, diarrhœa, cough:—khat banáúṉá, v. a. To trim the hair about the face, to shave the heard:—khat karná, v. a. To draw a line; to trim the hair about the face, to shave the beard off from certain parts of the face; to produce an effect.