a. Acting like a man. taṃ 1 Playing the man, acting a manly part, a manly conduct.

2 A kind of coitus or mode of sexual enjoy- ment in which the woman plays the man; ākṛtimavalokya kayāpi vitarki- taṃ puruṣāyitaṃ asilatālekhanena vaidagdhyāda- bhivyaktimupanītam K. P. 10.