دَنَنٌ
Root: دن
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دَنَنٌ
A bending, or curving, in the back [so that it resembles a
دَنّ: see أَدَنُّ]: and a nearness [to the ground] in the neck and breast, and a stooping, and lowness, therein, by original natural constitution: it is in a man, and in a horse or the like, and any quadruped: or shortness, and lowness, or depression, of the neck: or, in a horse, shortness of the fore legs: or, accord. to As, in any quadruped, nearness of the breast to the ground; which is one of the worst of faults: or, accord. to AZ, in a camel, a leaning forward, with shortness of the fore legs: and, accord. to AHeyth, in a horse or similar beast, shortness of the fore legs, and a consequent nearness of the neck to the ground.
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