عَقُورٌ

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عَقُورٌ , applied to a dog, and to any animal of prey, as a lion, and a lynx, and a leopard, and a wolf, and the like, each of these being called كَلْبٌ عَقُورٌ, because of the same rapacious nature as the dog, meaning, That wounds, and kills, and seizes its prey and breaks its neck: [or that wounds, &c., much; for] it is an intensive epithet: only applied to an animal; عُقَرَةٌ being applied to an inanimate thing: pl. عُقُرٌ, or عُقْرٌ.

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