أَيْبَسُ
Root: يبس
Full Definition
2 [Hence the saying,] أَيْبَسُ مِنَ الصَّخْرِ
def.2 See also يَابِسٌ, near the beginning and at the end.
def.3 الأَيْبَسُ, as a subst., not an epithet, The part of the shin-bone, in the middle of the shank, which, when pressed, pains one, and when it is broken, the leg is lost: or الأَيْبَسَانِ signifies the parts of the two shanks upon which is no flesh: or the parts of the two shanks of a horse upon which the flesh is dry, or tough: or the shank-bones of the fore leg and hind leg: or what appears of these: or the parts above the كَعْباَنِ and زَنْدَانِ [app. here meaning the two ankles and wrists]: pl. أَيَابِسُ: which is also applied to such parts as are like the hock, or hough, and the shank.
2 Also, the pl., Hard things upon which swords are tried.
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