From the bottom of these basins, channels lined with chunam (lime) ran down to one or more reservoirs similarly lined.
Near them he sets a cocoanut, which has been blackened with charcoal, on some rice spread on a plantain leaf, a cocoanut reddened with turmeric and chunam on raw rice, and another on a leaf, containing fried paddy.
On a smaller leaf, chunam (lime) and turmeric are placed.
This case very much resembles an old-fashioned warming-pan breed of watch and chateleine, as numerous little spoons for scooping out the chunam are attached to it by chains.
She did hope Miss Howe would enjoy the evening--they would meet again later on; she must not forget to look at the chunam pillars in the ballroom--perfectly lovely.
She did it with publicity, too, kneeling on the chunam floor of the chapel for an hour at a time obviously explaining matters.
A sort of chunam or cement made of pounded sea-shells mixed with oil, which hardens like a stone, and is put over a ship's bottom in India, so that worms cannot penetrate even when the copper is off.
Meanwhile the young folk have been making sport of him by throwing at his new and old clothes big empty brinjal fruits (Solanum Melongena) filled with turmeric powder and chunam (lime).
In the island of Ugi chunam (burnt lime) is one of the domestic remedies employed in sickness, being rubbed into the skin of the patient by his friends.
The chunam of some men is supposed to be more efficacious than that of others, and messengers may be sent from one end of the island to the other to procure it.
All the preparation consists in spreading on the sirih leaf a small quantity of the chunam and folding it up with a slice of the pinang nut.
The boys as they approach to the age of puberty rub their chins, upper lips, and those parts of the body that are subject to superfluous hair with chunam (quicklime) especially of shells, which destroys the roots of the incipient beard.
The hollow bamboos, through which the seed drops, is daubed with chunam (lime), and the other parts with red earth.
You, Sir, are the chunam (lime), which makes them perfect.
He goes to a green tree, and there spreads muggu or chunam (lime) powder, and places an effigy of the intended victim thereon.
Presently, however, Aunt Tilly got tired of the four chunam walls of the sitting-room, though they had been washed gleaming white for her benefit.
The polished chunam of the walls told of days when coolies were plentiful and lent the strength of their sinewy arms to rub the shell-lime till it gleamed like marble, even in the light of day.
As he passed a corner house which was in darkness, he saw a figure leaning against one of the chunam posts where a gate should have swung.
Even its shabby exterior, with patches of chunam peeling off, disclosing its flimsy walls of lath and mud, was sharing in the dawn of coming prosperity.
Its portico of chunampillars was gleaming like the purest white Carrara.
But talking of reproducing chunam palaces at home, I was amused to hear Rayner saying the other day at the Club that he had got a plan of his house in Clive's Road, and meant to reproduce it in Belgravia!
A leaf on which chunam (lime) has been kept, should be avoided, as it may shorten life.
Native gentlemen take particular care to examine every betel leaf, wipe it with a cloth, and smear chunam (lime) over it, before chewing.
On a smaller leaf, chunam and turmeric are placed.
The goat or fowl is brought before the god, and a mixture of turmeric and chunam (lime) sprinkled over it.
At a Palli (Tamil cultivator) wedding, water coloured with turmeric andchunam (arati) is waved round the bride and bridegroom.
If sugar for so small an amount cannot be procured, the devotee spends the money on chunam (lime) for her tomb, and this is consequently covered with a superabundance of whitewash.
Taking a little of the turmeric paste rendered red by the addition of chunam (lime), she makes marks by drawing lines over the feet (nalangu idal).
The name of certain chunam [lime] burners in Mysore.
After the expiry of the above period, they are soaked in fresh water for three days, in view to the chunam being removed.
The hides are soaked for a period of one month in large earthen vats containing water, to which chunam is added at the rate of two seers per hide.
Water coloured with turmeric and chunam (arathi) is then waved round them, to avert the evil eye, and they are conducted to the bathing-place.
The bride and bridegroom are given cloths which have been partly immersed in water coloured with turmeric and chunam (lime), and the suribhaktas are fed with the rice and dhal cooked in the pots.
His penuma consists of arecanut cutters, chunam boxes, ear and tooth picks, at the forge he is given the services of a tenant to blow the bellows, and when employed out of his house he is given his food.
For whooping cough is given gruel made of seven grains of rice collected in a chunam receptacle (killôtê) without uttering a word from seven houses on a Sunday morning.
To avoid the evil eye black pots with white chunam marks and hideous figures are placed before houses and in orchards.
The mortar shows the remains of the pearl oyster-shells from which it was burnt, and the chunam with which the walls were coated, still clings to some of the towers, and retains its angularity and polish.
In decorative art, carving and moulding inchunam were the principal expedients resorted to.
Chunam is used on the vessels, having wooden bottoms; and the upper works are blacked with a substance resembling lacquer.
She did it with publicity, too, kneeling on the chunam floor of the chapel for an hour at a time explaining matters.
They have the same calabashes and chunam sticks for betel- chewing as at Kerepunu.
Some chunam sticks made from cassowary bones are well carved.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chunam" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
