شَاخِصٌ

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شَاخِصٌ [part. n. of the intrans. verb شَخَصَ]. [Hence,] بَصَرٌ شَاخِصٌ [An eye fixedly open: or raised: or sight stretched and raised: see 1]: you say, سَمِعْتُ بِقُدُومِكَ فَقَلْبِى بَيْنَ جَنَاحَىَّ رَاقِصٌ وَبَصَرِى تَحْتَ حِجَاجِى شَاخِصٌ [I have heard of thy coming, and my heart is throbbing between my two sides, and my eye beneath my bone of the eyebrow fixedly open, &c.]. With the pl., أَبْصَارٌ, you say شَاخِصَةٌ, and شَوَاخِصُ, or شُخُوصٌ [like شُهُودٌ as pl. of شَاهِدٌ; if not an Verbal.Noun, as which it may be applied, in the place of an epithet, to a pl. subst.].
2 سَهْمٌ شَاخِصٌ An arrow passing beyond the butt, or object of aim, going above it. You say, رُمِىَ بِالشَّاخِصَاتِ [He was shot at with arrows which passed beyond him, going above him: perhaps doubly tropical, meaning he was assailed with invectives which did not harm him].
3 شَاخِصٌ also signifies A man prosecuting war [during three or more days together,] not on alternate days: and of such it is said in a trad., that he may shorten prayer.

def.2 شَاخِصٌ as the act. part. n. of the trans. verb, [for شَاخِصٌ بَصَرَهُ,] [A man raising his eye, or sight, and looking fixedly; as does a dying man: or stretching and raising his sight: or] a man opening his eyes and not moving his eyelids.

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