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حَوْشَبٌ

Root: حشب

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حَوْشَبٌ The fetlock-joint (مَوْصِلُ الوَظِيفِ) in the pastern (رُسْغ) of a beast: or, as also and حشيبى , a bone in the inside of the hoof, between the tendons (عَصَب) and the وَظِيف [or shank; app. the lower pastern-bone]: or the contents (حَشْو) of the hoof: or a small bone, like a سُلَامَى [or finger-bone, a description aptly applying to either of the pastern-bones, the upper of which seems to be here meant], at the extremity of the وَظِيف, between the head thereof and the place where the hoof is set on, entering into the جُبَّة: (As, S: [see this last word (جبّة), to which various significations are assigned; here said in the TA to be that which contains the حوشب and دَخِيس , between, or amid, the flesh and the tendons:]) or the bone of the رُسْغ [or pastern]: or a name applied to each of the two bones of the pastern (رسغ) of a horse.

def.2 Lean, and lank in the belly.
2 And Bigbellied: or big in the sides: or swollen, or inflated, in the sides: or swollen in the belly, and short: (Skr p. 57: [see an ex. in a verse cited voce مُجْرٍ in art. جرو:]) bearing two contr. significations: fem. with ة: pl. حَوَاشِبُ.

def.3 The male hare: and [so in the K; but accord. to the TA, “ or ”] the calf. Also, accord. to the K, the “ male fox: ” but this is a mistake, occasioned by the occurrence of the words حَوْشَب and قَعْنَب together in a verse: the latter of these two signifies the “ male fox. ”

def.4 A company of men; as also حَوْشَبَةٌ : a large number of men collected together.


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