حَقِينٌ
Root: حقن
Full Definition
2 And, as a subst., Milk collected in a skin, when fresh milk has been poured upon that which has become curdled, or thick, or upon that which has been churned. Hence the prov., أَبَى الحَقِينُ العِذْرَةَ; i. e. العُذْرَ; [The milk collected in the skin, &c., has disallowed the excuse;] applied to him who excuses himself when having no [real] excuse: originally said by a man who asked some people to give him milk to drink, upon their excusing themselves while they had milk which they had collected in a skin; meaning, this حقبن belies you.
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