قَرَصَهُ

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قَرَصَهُI , Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun قَرْصٌ, [He pinched him, or it,] with the two fingers: or it with his fingers, so as to pain him: or he took, or took hold of, it with his two fingers, so as to pain him: or he twisted round two fingers upon it, namely, a thing; or the extremities of the fingers, only: or he scratched him, or it, with his nails: and he pressed, or squeezed, or pinched, him, or it, with the fingers, so as to pain: or he took it with the ends of his fingers: (Mgh, CK: [one of the explanations of القَرْصُ in the latter being القَبْصُ:]) or he seized it (so accord. to a MS. copy of the K, [the Verbal.Noun being there rendered by القَبْضُ; in the place of which I find in the TA, القرض; but this I think a mistranscription;]) with the two fingers, so as to pain. You say also, قَرَصَهُ بِظُفْرَيْهِ He took [or pinched] his skin with his two nails.
2 [Hence,] It bit him: also said of a gnat; and of a serpent.
3 Also, [as meaning It pinched him, or pained him,] said of the cold.
4 And قَرَصَ, Present.T and Verbal.Noun as above, [and قُرُوصَةٌ seems to be another Verbal.Noun of the same,] It bit the tongue. You say also of [the beverage called] نَبِيذ, فِيهِ قُرُوصَةٌ In it is a biting quality, affecting the tongue.
5 Also, قَرَصَهُ بِلِسَانِهِ, inf n. قَرْصٌ, He hurt him with his tongue, by saying something which gave pain. And لَا تَزَالُ تَقْرُصُنِى مِنْكَ قَارِصَةٌ [A hurtful saying proceeding from thee does not cease to hurt me].
6 قَرَصَهُ also signifies He took it, or cut it in pieces, namely, anything, between two things; as also قرّصهُ : or the former signifies [simply] he cut it: and the latter, he cut it in pieces. Hence, أُقْرُصِيهِ بِالمَاءِ, or بالماء, said in a trad., respecting the menstrual blood, accord. to different relations: the latter means, Separate thou its particles [so I here render قَطِّعِيهِ] with water; and the former has a similar [but less intensive] meaning: or the former means, wash it with the ends of thy fingers; and remove it with the nail or the like: or take it [off] with the ends of the fingers: or rub it hard with the ends of the fingers and the nails, and pour upon it water, so as to remove it and the mark of it. (Az, in Msb, art. حت; and IAth, * in TA, in the present art.)
7 You say also, قَرَصَ العَجِينَ, Verbal.Noun قَرْصٌ; or قرّصهُ ; He cut the dough to spread it out: or the former, [simply,] he spread out the dough: or قَرَصَتِ العَجِينَ, Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun as above, she cut the dough, or spread it out and cut it, into pieces, each such as is termed قُرْصَة: and , Verbal.Noun تَقْرِيصٌ, she cut it into many pieces, each such as is termed قُرْصَة, or قُرْص.

def.2 قَرِصَ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun قَرَصٌ, signifies دَامَ عَلَى المُنَافَرَةِ وَالغِيبَةِ [He continued in a course of mutual aversion and defamation].

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