phlegm, saliva, foam; usually with singhānikā mucus, sometimes in the sense of perspiration, sweat AN.i.34; AN.iv.137; Snp.196 (+ singh˚); Kp ii. = Mil.26 (cp Vism.263 in detail, & Kp-a.66); Ja.i.61; Ja.iv.23; Ja.vi.367 Vism.259, Vism.343 (+ singhāṇikā), Vism.362; Dhp-a.iii.181; Dhp-a.iv.20 Dhp-a.iv.170; Pv.ii.2#3 as food for Petas, cp. Avs.i.279 (kheṭamūtropajīvinī; Avs.ii.113: kheṭavadutsṛjya); Pv-a.80 (= niṭṭhubhana).

• -kilinna wet with exudation Ja.i.164;
• -mallaka a spitting box, a cuspidor Vin.i.48; Vin.ii.175, Vin.ii.209 sq.
• -siṅghānikā phlegm & mucus Dhp-a.i.50.

Sk. kheṭa, cp. kṣveḍa and śleṣma, P. silesuma. See also kilid & kilis;, cp. ukkheṭita. On root khela see keḷanā; it is given by Dhtp.279 in meaning “calana. The latter (khela) has of course nothing to do with kheḷa