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رَئِيسٌ

Root: رأس

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رَئِيسٌ Hit, or hurt, in the head; as also مَرْؤُوسٌ . Hence, شَاةٌ رَئِيسٌ A sheep or goat, or a ewe or she-goat, hit, or hurt, in her head: pl. رَآسَى: you say غَنَمٌ رَآسَى.
2 Having his head broken, its skin being cleft.
3 Having his head affected, or overcome, by the disease called بِرْسَام; as also مَرْؤُوسٌ : or ↓ the latter, a man afflicted with that disease: and ↓ the same, also, a man having a complaint of his head.

def.2 The head, or headman, chief, commander, governor, ruler, lord, master, prince, or king, of a people; a person of authority; as also رَيِّسٌ and رَأْسٌ [q. v.]; and [in like manner] رَائِسٌ , syn. of this last, وَالٍ: or رَئِيسٌ signifies, [or rather signifies also,] a person high in rank or condition: its pl. is رُؤَسَآهُ, pronounced by the vulgar رُوَسَآء: in El-Yemen, ↓رَيِّسٌ is applied to one who shaves the head. (TA in art. ريس.)
2 رَئِيسُ الكِلَابِ and , [The chief, or leader, of the dogs;] the dog that is' among the other dogs, as the رَئِيس among a people: the chief of the dogs, that is not preceded by them in the chase.
3 الأَعْضَآءُ الرَّئِيسَةُ [The capital parts of an animal] are, with physicians, four; namely, the heart, the brain, the liver, and the testicles: the first three, because without every one of them the person cannot exist; and the last, because privation thereof is a privation of نَوْع [properly species]: the assertion that they are the nose, and the tongue, and the penis, is erroneous.
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