GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   ‖Kama (käˈmä), n. [Skr. kāma love, the god of love.]
   1. The Hindu Cupid. He is represented as a beautiful youth, with a bow of sugar cane or flowers.
   
   [1913 Webster]
   
   
   2. Desire; animal passion; -- supposed to create the ka"ma ru"pa (ro͞opȧ) [Skr. rūpa shape, image], a kind of simulacrum or astral likeness of a man which exists after his death in an invisible plane of being, called ka"ma lo"ca (lōˈkȧ) [Skr. lōka space, world], until the impulses which created it are exhausted and it finally fades away.
   
   [Webster 1913 Suppl.]