رأّس
Root: رأس
Form: 2
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رأّسII
The [lizard called] ضبّ
turned his head towards the viper, or met the viper head-foremast, in coming forth from his hole: for the viper comes to the hole of the ضبّ, and hunts after it, and sometimes the latter comes forth with its head towards the former, and is said to be مَرَئِّس: and sometimes a man hunts after the ضبّ, and puts a stick into the mouth of its hole, and it imagines it to be a viper, and comes forth head-foremost or tail-foremost, i. e., مُرَئِّسًا أَوْ مُذَنِّبًا.
def.2 [The verb is also used intransitively, as meaning It (a ضَبّ) put its head foremost in coming forth from its hole: contr. of ذَنَّبَ.]
def.3 رَأَّسْتُهُ, Verbal.Noun تَرْئِيسٌ,
def.2 [The verb is also used intransitively, as meaning It (a ضَبّ) put its head foremost in coming forth from its hole: contr. of ذَنَّبَ.]
def.3 رَأَّسْتُهُ, Verbal.Noun تَرْئِيسٌ,
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