أَخْدَعُ

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أَخْدَعُ [More, and most, deceitful, deluding, guileful, outwitting, or the like]. [Hence,] أَخْدَعُ مِنْ ضَبٍّ [More deceitful, or guileful, than a dabb]; a prov.; applied to a person over whom one has not power, by reason of deceit, or guile. They said also, إِنَّكَ لَأَخْدِعُ مِنْ ضَبٍّ حَرَشْتُهُ [Verily thou art more deceitful, or guileful, than a dabb that I have hunted]. [See خِدَاعٌ.]

def.2 الأَخْدَعُ [app. Each of the two branches of the occipital artery which are distributed upon the occiput;] a certain vein, one of a pair of veins, called the أَخْدَعَانِ, in the cupping-place of the neck, or in the place [of the application] of the two cupping-instruments; being a branch from the وَرِيد [or carotid artery]; sometimes the scarification [for cupping] happens to be upon one of them, and the patient consequently is exhausted by loss of blood: the اخدعان are two concealed veins in the place of the cupping of the neck: Lh says, they are two veins in the neck: some say that they are the وَدَجَانِ, q. v.: the pl. is أَخَادِعُ.
2 فُلَانٌ شَدِيدُ الأَخْدَعِ means Such a one is strong in the place of the اخدع.
3 It also means [Such a one is] a person who resists; unyielding; uncomplying. And لَيِّنُ الأَخْدَعُ One who does not resist; yielding; complying.
4 You say also, لَوَى فُلَانٌ أَخْدَعَهُ Such a one turned away, or aside, and behaved proudly, or haughtily. And سَوَّى أَخْدَعَهُ He relinquished pride, or haughtiness. And to him who is proud, one says, لَأُقِيمَنَّ أَخْدَعَيْكَ, meaning I will assuredly dispel thy pride.

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