حَشْوٌ

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حَشْوٌ , like the Verbal.Noun, Stuffing; [i. e.] what is put into a pillow, or cushion, &c.: and [hence] cotton: and the seeds used for seasoning food, [and the rice &c.,] with which the belly of a lamb is stuffed: pl. مَحَاشٍ , deviating from rule.
2 The soul of a man.
3 [A parenthesis;] a redundant part, or portion, of speech, or of a sentence, upon which nothing is syntactically dependent.
4 [A digression.]
5 The portion of either hemistich of a verse that is comprised between the first and last foot.
6 Small, or young, camels, among which are no great, or old, ones; as also حَاشِيَةٌ : so called because they enter, or occupy the spaces, among the latter; or because they go against the sides of the latter: accord. to ISk, signifies [the camel termed] اِبْنُ المَخَاضِ and [that termed] اِبْنُ اللَّبُونِ: (S, and K in art. حشى:) the pl. [of حَاشِيَةٌ] is . It is said in a trad. respecting the poorrate, حُذْ مِنْ أَمْوَالِهِمْ, i. e., accord. to IAth, Take thou of the small, or young, of their camels; such as those termed ابن المخاض and ابن اللبون. (TA. [But see another explanation of this saying voce حَاشِيَةٌ in art. حشى.])
7 And حَشْوٌ and حَاشِيَةٌ signify also The like of mankind; [i. e.] حَاشِيَةٌ signifies the lower or lowest, baser or basest, meaner or meanest, sort, or the rabble, or refuse, of mankind, or of the people; (TA in art. حشى, and Har p. 61;) as also حَشْوٌ [which is of frequent occurrence in this sense]; and ; such as servants and the like. (Har ubi suprà, in explanation of حاشية. [See also this word in art. حشى.]) You say, جَآءَ فُلَانٌ مَعَ Such a one came with those who were in his quarter and protection: but this may be from حَشًا signifying “a region, quarter, or tract;” servants and followers being in the quarter and protection of their master. And فُلَانٌ مِنْ بَنِى فُلَانٍ Such a one is of the lower or lowest, &c., of the sons of such a one.
8 See also حُشْوَةٌ.

def.2 Also A stuffed garment.

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