حَجْمٌ

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حَجْمٌ A rising, protuberant, or prominent, part of a thing: a projection, protrusion, prominence, or protuberance; and a rising, or an elevation: or the part of a thing that one feels beneath his hand: or the part of a thing that one feels projecting, protruding, prominent, or protuberant, beneath his hand: pl. حُجُومٌ. One says, لَيْسَ لِمِرْفَقِهِ حَجْمٌ There is no projection, protrusion, prominence, or protuberance, to his elbow. Lh says that حَجْمُ العَظْمِ means One's perceiving the feel of the bones [or bone] behind the skin: thus explaining it after the manner of explaining inf. ns.: and ISd says, I known not whether it be in his opinion an Verbal.Noun or a simple subst. And Lth says that الحَجْمُ means One's perceiving the feel of a thing beneath a garment: [and that] one says, مَسَسْتُ بَطْنَ الحُبْلَى فَوَجَدْتُ حَجْمَ الصَّبِىِّ فِى بَطْنِهَا [which plainly means, I felt the belly of the pregnant woman, and perceived the bulging of the child in her belly]. It is said [of a woman's garment] in a trad., لَا يَصِفُ حَجْمَ عِظَامِهَا [lit. It does not describe the projecting of her bones]: meaning, the garment does not stick to her body so as to tell what projects of her bones: it is made to be a describer by way of comparison.
2 [In post-classical works it is often used as signifying Bulk, bigness, or magnitude.]

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