makkhaṇa : [nt.] smearing; anointing with.

A.P. Buddhadatta Mahathera, Concise Pali-English and English-Pali Dictionary [available as digital version from Metta Net, Sri Lanka]

Makkhaṇa (nt.) [fr. mṛkṣ, cp. *Sk. mrakṣaṇa] smearing, oil J iii.120; Miln 11 (tela˚); Dhtp 538.

Pali-English Dictionary, TW Rhys Davids, William Stede,