ضَاغِطٌ

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ضَاغِطٌ A slitting in the arm-pit of a camel, and abundance of flesh [in that part, pressing against the side]: and i. q. ضَبٌّ: or a thing like a bag: a tumour in the armpit of a camel, like a bag, straitening him: (Meyd: see مُعَرَّكٌ:) or skin collected together: or the base of the callous protuberance upon the breast of a camel pressing against the place of the arm-pit, and marking, or scarring, and excoriating, it. Accord. to IDrd, بَعِيرٌ بِهِ ضَاغِطٌ means A camel whose arm-pit comes in contact with his side so as to mark it, or scar it.

def.2 A watcher, keeper, or guardian; a confidential superintendent; over a person; so called because he straitens him; or over a thing. You say, أرْسَلَهُ ضَاغِطًا عَلَى فُلَانٍ He sent him as a watcher, &c., over such a one. And hence what is said in the trad. of Mo'ádh, when his wife asked him, on his return from collecting the poor-rates in El-Yemen, where was the present which he had brought for his wife, and he answered, كَانَ عَلَىَّ ضَاغِطٌ [There was over me a watcher], or كَانَ مَعِى ضَاغِطٌ [There was with me a watcher], meaning God, who knows the secrets of men; or he meant, by ضاغط, the trust committed to him by God, which he had taken upon himself; but his wife imagined that there was with him a watcher who straitened him, and prevented his taking to please her.

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