عَقِيرٌ
Root: عقر
Full Definition
2 Applied to a camel, both to a male and to a female, and to a horse [or mare, &c.], [Hocked, houghed, or hamstrung;] having the [hock-tendon or] two hock-tendons laid bare, so as to be unable to run; applied to a horse; struck [or cut] in the legs with a sword; [a camel having one of the legs cut, previously to being stabbed; having a mark, or wound, like a notch, made in his, or her, legs: see 1:] pl. as above. [See also عَقِيرَةٌ.]
3 [Hence,] applied to a camel, Stabbed; slaughtered by stabbing: pl. as above.
4 Applied to a palm-tree (نَخْلَةٌ), as also , and, accord. to the copies of the K, عَقِيرَةٌ , but correctly , as in the M, Having its head cut off, altogether, with the heart, and having in consequence dried up, so that nothing comes forth from its trunk.
def.2 A man unable to walk, or to fight, by reason of fright and stupefaction; taken by sudden fright, so as to be unable to advance or retire: or stupified: in which last sense it is applied to an antelope.
def.3 See also عَاقِرٌ.
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