वक्र [ vakra ] [ vakrá ] m. f. n. crooked , curved , bent , tortuous , twisted , wry , oblique Lit. AV.

  curled , curly (as hair) Lit. AV.

  having an apparently backward motion , retrograde (said of planets) Lit. Sūryas. Lit. Var.

  (in prosody) long (the form of the long mark being curved)

  crooked in disposition , cunning , fraudulent , dishonest , evasive , ambiguous Lit. KaṭhUp. Lit. MBh.

  hostile , cruel , malignant , inauspicious Lit. Kāv. Lit. Kathās. Lit. Sāh.

  [ vakra ] m. a nose Lit. L.

  the planet Mars Lit. VarBṛS.

  the planet Saturn Lit. L.

  a partic. drug (= [ parpaṭa ] ) Lit. L.

  N. of Rudra Lit. L.

  of the Asura Bāṇa Lit. L.

  of a prince of the Karūshas Lit. MBh. (v.l. [ vaktra ] )

  of a Rākshasa Lit. R.

  pl. N. of a people Lit. VP. (v.l. [ cakra ] )

  [ vakrā ] f. a partic. musical instrument Lit. Lāṭy.

  [ vakra ] m. ( scil. [ gati ] ) a partic. variation in the course of Mercury Lit. VarBṛS.

  n. the winding course of a river , the arm or bend of a stream Lit. ŚvetUp.

  the apparent retrograde motion of a planet Lit. MBh. Lit. Hariv. Lit. VarBṛS.

  a form of fracture (when a bone is bent or only partially broken) Lit. Suśr.

  w.r. for [ vaktra ] .