استرسل
Root: رسل
Form: 10
Full Definition
استرسلX
It was, or became, loose, or slack; syn. سَلِسَ.
2 Said of hair: see 1, in two places. [In like manner said of a tree, &c., It drooped; or was pendent. Said of a cheek, (to which its part. n. مُسْتَرْسِلٌ is applied as an epithet in the K voce أَسِيلٌ,) It was, or became, lank.]
3 الاِسْتِرْسَالُ in the pace of a beast is The going gently, deliberately, or leisurely. [And you say, استرسلت الدَّابَّةٌ The beast went a gentle, deliberate, or leisurely, pace.]
4 Also, [in other cases,] The being still, and steady.
5 Hence, استرسل إِلَيْهِ
6 And استرسل الدَّهْرُ فِيهِمْ فَأَفْنَاهُمْ [
def.2 Also He said, Send thou to me the camels in droves (أَرْسَالًا [in the CK, erroneously, اِرْسالًا]); ارسالا being with fet-h to the hemzeh; i. e. drove after drove: for the camels, when they come to the water, are numerous; and their tender brings them to the watering-trough thus; not all together, as in this case they would press together upon the watering-trough and not satisfy their thirst.
2 Said of hair: see 1, in two places. [In like manner said of a tree, &c., It drooped; or was pendent. Said of a cheek, (to which its part. n. مُسْتَرْسِلٌ is applied as an epithet in the K voce أَسِيلٌ,) It was, or became, lank.]
3 الاِسْتِرْسَالُ in the pace of a beast is The going gently, deliberately, or leisurely. [And you say, استرسلت الدَّابَّةٌ The beast went a gentle, deliberate, or leisurely, pace.]
4 Also, [in other cases,] The being still, and steady.
5 Hence, استرسل إِلَيْهِ
6 And استرسل الدَّهْرُ فِيهِمْ فَأَفْنَاهُمْ [
def.2 Also He said, Send thou to me the camels in droves (أَرْسَالًا [in the CK, erroneously, اِرْسالًا]); ارسالا being with fet-h to the hemzeh; i. e. drove after drove: for the camels, when they come to the water, are numerous; and their tender brings them to the watering-trough thus; not all together, as in this case they would press together upon the watering-trough and not satisfy their thirst.
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