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أَعْقَصُ

Root: عقص

Full Definition

أَعْقَصُ A goat or sheep whose horns are twisted, or contorted, upon his ears, backwards: fem. عَقْصَآءُ: or عَقْصَآءُ القَرْنِ signifies a شَاة [i. e. sheep or goat] having a twisting, or contortion, in the horn: and مِعْقَاصٌ , a sheep or goat crooked in the horn.
2 Also Having the fingers twisting, one upon another.
3 And Whose central incisors enter into his mouth, and are twisted.
4 See also عَقِصٌ, last sentence.
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