حَامِيةٌ
Root: حمى
Full Definition
2 Also A great, or wide, or great and wide, mass of stone, (حِمَارَةٌ K accord. to the TA,) or the stones, (حِجَارَة, so in some copies of the K,) with which a well is cased: pl. حَوَامٍ: or the latter signifies the stones &c. with which a well is cased, to protect its sides from becoming dirty and disordered: or great and heavy stones: and also large masses of rock which are placed in the last parts of the casing [of a well] if it falls out through age: they dig out hollows, and build them therein, so that they suffer not the earth to come near to the casing, but repel it: and all the stones [of the casing] of a well, matching one another, none of them larger than another.
3 The circuit of the solid hoof: or [the dual] حَامِيَتَانِ signifies the part on the right and left of the toe of the solid hoof: or [the pl.] حَوَامٍ signifies the right and left edges of the solid hoofs; between them are [the] نُسُور [or frogs], like hard date-stones: or the right and left sides of the solid hoof.
4 [The pl. also signifies The sides of a mountain. ]
5 Also, the sing., i. q. أُثْفِيَّةٌ [i. e. Any one of the three stones on which the cookingpot is placed]: pl. as above.
6 مَضَيْتُ عَلَى حَامِيَتِى means I went my own way.
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