أَخْوَصُ

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أَخْوَصُ A man having the eye sunk, or depressed; having the quality of the eye termed خَوَصٌ: [see 1:] fem. خَوْصَآءُ: which is [also] applied to the eye, meaning sunk, or depressed: or small, and sunk, or depressed: and to a ewe, meaning having one of her eyes black, and the other white: or having one eye black, and the other, with the rest of the body, white: pl. خُوصٌ, which, prefixed to العُيُون, is applied to camels.
2 [Hence,] بِئْرٌ خَوْصَآءُ A deep well; a well of which the bottom is deep; of which the beasts see not the water: because one contracts his eyelids (يَتَخَاوَصُ) in looking into it: or خوصاء applied to a well (رَكِيَّة), signifies of which the water has sunk into the earth. And the same epithet applied to a [mountain of the kind called] هَضْبَة, or قَارَة, High; lofty: because one contracts his eyelids in looking at it. And رِيحٌ خَوْصَآءُ A hot wind: or a vehemently-hot wind: that makes the eye to blink, or contract the eyelids, (تَكْسِرُهَا,) by reason of heat: in which one does not see without blinking, or contracting the eyelids. And ظَهِيرَةٌ خَوْصَآءُ A summer mid-day vehemently hot: or most vehemently hot; in which one cannot look without blinking, or contracting the eyelids.

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