خَلَجَ

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خَلَجَI , Present.T ـِ or ـُ Verbal.Noun خَلْجٌ; and اختلج ; and تخلّج ; He drew, dragged, pulled, strained, stretched, extended, lengthened, or protracted, a thing: and he pulled out or up, displaced, removed, or took away, a thing, and a person. Thus in the saying, أَخَذَ بِيَدِهِ فَخَلَجَهُ بَيْنِ صَحْبِهِ [He took his hand, and pulled him out from amid his companions]: and خَلَجَ رُمْحَهُ مِنَ المَطْعُونِ [He pulled out his spear from the person pierced]: and اختلج رُمْحًا مَرْكُوزًا [He pulled out a spear stuck in the ground]. [See also an ex. in a verse cited voce مَطْرَبٌ.] El-'Ajjáj says, فَإِنْ يَكُنْ هٰذَا الزَّمَانُ خَلَجَا فَقَدْ لَبِسْنَا عَيْشَهُ المُخَرْفَجَا meaning And if this time has taken away, and exchanged for another, a state [in which we were, we have long enjoyed its plentiful life].
2 [Hence,] خُلِجَ, said of a stallion-camel, He was taken away from the females that had passed seven or eight months since the period when they last brought forth, before he had become too languid to cover any longer. And خَلَجَ, Present.T ـِ He weaned his offspring, or the offspring of his she-camel: he separated a young camel from the mother. And خَلَجَتْ وَلَدَهَا She weaned her offspring: so accord. to Lh, who does not particularize any kind [of animal]. And خَلَجَ نَاقَةً He weaned the offspring of a she-camel. And مِنْ بَيْنِهِمْ [He was taken away from among them]: said of the dead.
3 خَلَجَنِى كَذَا, Present.T ـِ Such a thing occupied me; busied me; or diverted me, by employing my attention, from other things. You say, خَلَجَتْهُ أُمُورُ الدُّنْيَا [The affairs of the world occupied him, &c.]. And خَلَجَتْهُ Busying [or distracting] affairs busied [or distracted] him. And a poet says, وَ أَبِيتُ تَخْلِجُنِى الهُمُومُ كَأَنَّنِى دَلْوُ السُّقَاةِ تُمَدُّ بِالأَشْطَانِ [And I pass the night,] anxieties busying me [as though I were the bucket of the waterers, drawn from the well by the ropes].
4 تَخْلِجُ السَّيْرَ, said of a fleet she-camel, She goes, journeys, or travels, quickly. And خَلَجَ فِى مِشْيَتِهِ: see 5.
5 خَلَجَ, Present.T ـِ also signifies He put in motion, or into a state of commotion. You say, خَلَجَ حَاجِبَيْهِ, and عَيْنَيْهِ, He put in motion, or into a state of commotion, his eyebrows, and his eyes.
6 And خَلَجَ, Present.T ـِ and ـُ Verbal.Noun خَلْجٌ, He made a sign [by a motion] بِعَيْنِهِ with his eye, and بِحَاجِبَيْهِ with his eyebrows. And خَلَجَهُ بِحَاجِبِهِ, Present.T and Verbal.Noun as above, He made a sign to him with his eyebrow. And خَلَجَهُ بِعَيْنِهِ He made a sign to him with his eye; winked to him. And خَلَجَتْنِى بِعَيْنِهَا She made a sign to me with her eye, or winked to me, to indicate a time or place of appointment, or something that she desired.
7 See also 8, in two places.

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