مَغْمَزٌ

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مَغْمَزٌ [should by rule be مَغْمِزٌ: its primary signification is A place of feeling, to know if an animal be fat: hence, a place of pressing or squeezing a limb &c.: and a place of pinching and pressing a spear, to straighten it].
2 نُكْتَةٌ لَامَغْمَزَ لِقَنَاتِهَا وَلَا مَقْرَعَ لِصَفَاتِهَا [lit. A nice or subtile saying, the spear of which has no place where it requires to be pinched and pressed to straiten it, and the rock of which has no rough place requiring to be beaten, or for the rock of which there is no beating,] means, that has no crookedness: مقرع is an Verbal.Noun, or means “ a place of beating, ” and صفاة is “ a rock; ” and the above-mentioned use of these two words is borrowed from the phrase قَرَعَ صَفَاتَهُ, meaning “ he impugned his character; blamed, or censured, him; or spoke against him. ”
3 See also غَمِيزَةٌ, in five places.

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