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نفيضة

Root: حضر

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نفيضة signifying the same: [so that the meaning is, Coming to the waters in a collective and congregated body:] or the former signifies waters by which people are dwelling, or staying; and the latter, “ by which there is not any one: ” or the former, people dwelling, or staying, by the waters; and the latter, men “ going before an army as scouts, or explorers: ” but what IAar says, mentioned above, is better: or the former, a company of seven, or eight, men; and the latter, “ one; ” and also men “ who explore a place thoroughly: ” or the former, a company of four, or five, men, engaged in a warring and plundering expedition: or seven: or eight: or nine: or ten: or a company of men not more than ten (نَفَرٌ) with whom one goes on a warring and plundering expedition: or, accord. to AAF and the M and K, the foremost, or preceding, portion of an army: and accord. to IB, نفيضة signifies “ a party sent to a place to discover whether there be there an enemy or any cause of fear: ” pl. حَضَائِرُ.

def.2 A place where dates are dried: because frequented: pl. as above. [See also حَصِيرَةٌ and حَظِيرَةٌ.]

def.3 Also, or حَضِيرٌ , What collects in a wound, of thick purulent matter.
2 And the former What collects in the membrane that encloses the fœtus, of the [fluid called] سُخْد, and the like. You say, أَلْقَتِ الشَّاةُ حَضِيرَتَهَا The ewe, or she-goat, ejected her سُخْد and water and blood, after having brought forth.
3 And What a woman emits after childbirth and [after] the stopping of her blood: and حَضِيرٌ is its pl. [or a coll. gen. n.]. ]
4 And What a she-camel emits after bringing forth: or, accord. to AO, the membrane that envelops the fœtus.
5 And ↓ the latter signifies Thick blood which collects in the membrane that encloses the fœtus.


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