حُرْضَةٌ

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حُرْضَةٌ The person called أَمِينُ مُقَامِرِينَ; [i. e.] the man who turns round about, or shuffles, the arrows [in the رِبَابَة], or who deals them forth, (الَّذِى يَضْرِبُ بِالقِدَاحِ, S, or يُفِيضُ القِدَاحَ, A,) for the players in the game called المَيْسِر, in order that he may eat of their meat [without having contributed to pay for the slaughtered camel]: like him who is termed بَرَمٌ, always a low, or mean, person, an object of dispraise: called thus because of his lowness, or meanness.
2 Also One who does not purchase flesh-meat, nor eat it unless he find it in the possession of another person.

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