حَنِيذٌ

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حَنِيذٌ Roasted flesh-meat; as also مَحْنُوذٌ and حَنْذٌ , which last is an Verbal.Noun used as an epithet: or roasted with heated stones, in order to be cooked thoroughly: or a sheep or goat roasted, and having heated stones put upon it to cook it thoroughly; as also مَحْنُوذٌ ; which Ibn-'Arafeh explains as meaning roasted by means of heated stones put upon it, so thoroughly as to fall off from the bones: or حَنِيذٌ, he says, signifies roasted by means of hot stones so as to drip: or hot, roasted, flesh-meat, of which the moisture drips: this is said by Az to be the best explanation that has been given of it: or roasted flesh-meat not overdone: or roasted by being buried in the fire: or [roasted flesh-meat] for which one has dug a hole in the ground in which it is then covered over [with fire or heated stones], agreeably with a wellknown practice of the Arabs of the desert: or roasted in a hole dug in the ground, heated stones being put upon it. [See also مَرْمُوضٌ.]
2 See also 1.
3 Also Heated water: or hot water.
4 A kind of oil.
5 A perfumed preparation of خِطْمِىّ [or marsh-mallows] and the like, for washing the head.

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