خَاظٍ
Root: خظو
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خَاظٍ
Compact, applied to flesh; and so خَظَا بَظَا, likewise applied to flesh, and to a horse, [each] originally a verb, and the latter an imitative sequent; and the fem.
, applied to anything; and خَظَاةٌ بَظَاةٌ, applied to a woman, the [radical] ى being changed into ا accord. to the dial. of Teiyi; and خَظٍ بَظٍ, applied to a horse; and بَظِيَةٌ, applied to a woman. (AHeyth, K in art. خظى.) The Saadee says,
2 خَاظٍ also signifies Thick, and hard, firm, or rigid: and [so, or simply] thick, applied to an arrow. And one says سَاعِدٌ خَاظِى البَضِيعِ [A fore arm, or an upper arm,] full of flesh. (IB, TA in art. بضع.) And رَجُلٌ خَاظِى البَضِيعِ (As, S in art. بضع) A fat man.
[Compact necks like the bleachers' beating implements, and rumps elevated upon the camels' saddles]. In the saying of Imra-el-Keys,رِقَابٌ كَالمَوَاجِنِ خَاظِيَاتٌ وَأَسْتَاهٌ عَلَى الأَكْوَارِ كُومُ
[She has two compact portions of flesh and sinew confining her back-bone, like as appear when the leopard falls prostrate upon his fore shanks], he means خَظَاتَانِ, suppressing the ن for the purpose of alleviation of the utterance: or, as some say, he means , restoring the ا that fell out on account of the concurrence of two quiescent letters in the sing. [i. e. خَظَاتْ, for خَظَتْ is formed from خَظَاتْ, which is from خَظَوَتْ,] when the ت has become movent.لَهَا مَتْنَتَانِ كَمَا أَكَبَّ عَلَى سَاعِدَيْهِ النَّمِرْ
2 خَاظٍ also signifies Thick, and hard, firm, or rigid: and [so, or simply] thick, applied to an arrow. And one says سَاعِدٌ خَاظِى البَضِيعِ [A fore arm, or an upper arm,] full of flesh. (IB, TA in art. بضع.) And رَجُلٌ خَاظِى البَضِيعِ (As, S in art. بضع) A fat man.
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