غَرٌّ
Root: غر
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غَرٌّ
, with fet-h, A crease, wrinkle, ply, plait, or fold, in skin, accord. to Lth, from fatness, or in a skin, and in a garment, or piece of cloth; syn. كَسْرٌ, or كَسْرٌ مَتَثَنٍّ, and مَكْسِرٌ: pl. غُرُورٌ. [Hence,] غُرُورُ الفَخِذَيْنِ
The furrows [or creases or depressed lines] between the muscles of the thighs. And غُرُورُ الذِّرَاعَيْنِ
The duplicatures [or creases] between the [sinew's called] حِباَل [pl. of حَبْلٌ q. v.] of the fore arms. And غَرُّ الظَّهْرِ
The duplicature [or crease] of the
مَتْن [or flesh and sinew next the backbone]: or, as ISk says, غَرُّ المَتْنِ signifies the line of the
متن. And غُرُورُ القَدَمِ
The creases of the foot. And one says, طَوَيْتُ الثَّوْبَ
عَلَى غَرِّهِ
I folded the garment, or piece of cloth, according to its first, or original, folding. And hence طَوَيْتُهُ عَلَى غَرِّهِ meaning
2 Also A fissure, or cleft, in the earth or ground.
3 And A rivulet: or a narrow steam of water in land: so called because it cleaves the earth: pl. غُرُورٌ.
4 غُرُورٌ signifies also The streaks, or lines, of a road.
5 And الغَرَّانِ signifies Two lines by the two sides of the lower part of the عَيْر [or ridge in the middle of the iron head, or blade, of an arrow &c.].
6 See also غِرَارٌ, last sentence.
7 Also, the sing., The extremity of a tooth: pl. as above.
def.2 And The food wherewith a bird feeds its young one with its bill: pl. as above.
2 Its pl. is used in a verse of 'Owf Ibn-Dhirweh in relation to the journeying of camels, in the phrase اِحْتَسَى غُرُورَ عِيدِيَّاتِهَا, meaning
2 Also A fissure, or cleft, in the earth or ground.
3 And A rivulet: or a narrow steam of water in land: so called because it cleaves the earth: pl. غُرُورٌ.
4 غُرُورٌ signifies also The streaks, or lines, of a road.
5 And الغَرَّانِ signifies Two lines by the two sides of the lower part of the عَيْر [or ridge in the middle of the iron head, or blade, of an arrow &c.].
6 See also غِرَارٌ, last sentence.
7 Also, the sing., The extremity of a tooth: pl. as above.
def.2 And The food wherewith a bird feeds its young one with its bill: pl. as above.
2 Its pl. is used in a verse of 'Owf Ibn-Dhirweh in relation to the journeying of camels, in the phrase اِحْتَسَى غُرُورَ عِيدِيَّاتِهَا, meaning
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