فِلِزٌّ

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فِلِزٌّ and فِلَزٌّ and فُلُزٌّ, the first of which is what is commonly known, White copper (نُحَاس أَبْيَض [app. a sort of bronze in which the relative quantity of the tin is unusually large] whereof are made cast cooking-pots of large size, and mortars in which substances are pounded: or the metals; gold and silver and copper and the like: or the substance [i. e. recrement] that is removed [or blown away] by the blacksmith's bellows from molten metals: or the dross, or recrement, of iron, that is removed [or blown away] by the blacksmith's bellows: or stones: its primary meaning is [said to be] hardness, and ruggedness. الفِلِزَّاتُ [pl. of الفِلِزُّ (not to be mistaken for الفِلَذَاتُ)] signifies The seven metals; namely, gold, silver, copper, iron, lead, tin [thus I here render الأُسْرُبّ], and tutenag [thus I render الخَارصِينِى, following De Sacy and others].
2 And hence, as being likened to the فلزّ above described, A strong, hard, and thick, or coarse, man. And A niggard: as though he were hard iron, upon which nothing would make any impression.
3 And A thing upon which swords are tested by striking it therewith.

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