s. m. (K.), ) goiter, a plant (Pennisetum Italicum); i. q. Kaṇgṉí:—gal dá hár, s. m. lit. A necklace, a child who always clings to his mother's skirt; an encumbrance:—gal dá hár hoṉá, v. n. To pursue one persistently:—gal galáwáṇ paiṉá, v. n. lit. To fasten a halter in the neck; to be yoked together; to incur responsibility, or a debt or liability:—galghoṭú, s. m. Any thing drawn so tight around the neck as to choke; the sensation of choking;—a. Choky (spoken of that by taking which the sensation of choking is produced):—gal ghoṭú áuṉá, v. n. To squeeze the throat, to throttle, to choke:—gal ghuṭṭṉá, v. n. See galá ghuṭṭṉá in Galá:—gal khol, s. m. See galá khoṛí in Galá:—gal nál laggṉá, milná, v. n. To embrace:—gal nál láuṉá, v. a. To embrace one; to protect, to help, to take care—gal paiṉá, v. a. To hang upon the neck of any one, to persist in a demand; to be obligatory or incumbent; to be ready to fight:—gal pallá múṇh wichch gháh laiṉá, v. n. lit. To put an end of the piece of a cloth in one's neck and take (a bit of) grass in the mouth; to become most humble:—gal piá ḍhol wajáuṉá, v. n. lit. To play on the drum in the neck; to do a work which becomes obligatory to fulfil a promise:—gal waḍḍhṉá, v. a. To cut one's throat; to defraud, to bear hard upon, to oppress:—gal waḍháuṉá, v. a. To cause to cut one's throat; to be cheated.