bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash
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wife of Siva and malevolent form of Devi
<noun.person> the black
Kali \Ka"li\, n. [Skr. kali.] (Hind. Cosmog.) The last and worst of the four ages of the world; -- considered to have begun B. C. 3102, and to last 432,000 years.
Kali \Ka"li\, prop. n. [Skr. k[=a]l[=i].] (Hind. Myth.) The black, destroying goddess; -- called also {Doorga}, {Anna Purna}.
Kali \Ka"li\, n. [Ar. qali. See {Alkali}.] (Bot.) The glasswort ({Salsola Kali}).
Cali \Ca"li\, n. (Hindoo Myth.) The tenth avatar or incarnation of the god Vishnu. [Written also {Kali}.]
The more ambitious try to eke out a living in the informal sector, called "jua kali", or hot sun, where they make and repair all manner of things in open-air workshops.