فَرِيصٌ
Root: فرص
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فَرِيصٌ
One who shares in water with another, each taking of it in turn. You say, هُوَ
فَرِيصِى [He is my sharer in water, each of us taking thereof in turn]; and in like manner, .
def.2 فَرِيصٌ is also, like فَرَائِصُ, pl. of فَرِيصَةٌ; [or, rather, فَرِيصٌ is a coll. gen. n., whereof the n. un. is فَرِيصَةٌ ;] which signifies The portion of flesh [or muscle] between the side and the shoulder-blade which incessantly trembles, or quakes, in a beast: or the portion of flesh which is in the part extending from the مَرْجِع [or lower part, next the armpit,] of the shoulder-blade to the arm, on either side, and which trembles, or quakes, when the man, or beast, is frightened: or the portion of flesh which is by the نَغْض of the كَتِف, [which may app. be here rendered with sufficient exactness the cartilage of
2 فَرِيصُ العُنُقِ The external jugular veins (أَوْدَاج) of the neck: n. un. with ة: or the tendons, or sinews, (عَصَب,) and veins, of the neck: so, app., says A 'Obeyd, in the following words of a trad.: إِنِّى لَأَكْرَهُ أَنْ أَرَى الرَّجُلُ ثَائِرًا فَرِيصُ رَقَبَتِهِ قَائِمًا عَلَى مُرَيْئَتِهِ يَضْرِبُهَا [Verily I hate to see the man having the tendons, or sinews, and veins, of his neck swelling with anger, rising against his little wife, beating her]: for these are what swell out in anger: or, accord. to IAar, the meaning is, the hair of the فريص, which term is metaphorically used in relation to the neck, though it [really] has no فَرَائِص, because anger causes its veins to swell out [like as fright causes the فَرِيص properly so called to tremble or quake]: فَرِيسٌ is a dial. var. of the same. [See فَرَصَهُ, last signification.]
def.2 فَرِيصٌ is also, like فَرَائِصُ, pl. of فَرِيصَةٌ; [or, rather, فَرِيصٌ is a coll. gen. n., whereof the n. un. is فَرِيصَةٌ ;] which signifies The portion of flesh [or muscle] between the side and the shoulder-blade which incessantly trembles, or quakes, in a beast: or the portion of flesh which is in the part extending from the مَرْجِع [or lower part, next the armpit,] of the shoulder-blade to the arm, on either side, and which trembles, or quakes, when the man, or beast, is frightened: or the portion of flesh which is by the نَغْض of the كَتِف, [which may app. be here rendered with sufficient exactness the cartilage of
2 فَرِيصُ العُنُقِ The external jugular veins (أَوْدَاج) of the neck: n. un. with ة: or the tendons, or sinews, (عَصَب,) and veins, of the neck: so, app., says A 'Obeyd, in the following words of a trad.: إِنِّى لَأَكْرَهُ أَنْ أَرَى الرَّجُلُ ثَائِرًا فَرِيصُ رَقَبَتِهِ قَائِمًا عَلَى مُرَيْئَتِهِ يَضْرِبُهَا [Verily I hate to see the man having the tendons, or sinews, and veins, of his neck swelling with anger, rising against his little wife, beating her]: for these are what swell out in anger: or, accord. to IAar, the meaning is, the hair of the فريص, which term is metaphorically used in relation to the neck, though it [really] has no فَرَائِص, because anger causes its veins to swell out [like as fright causes the فَرِيص properly so called to tremble or quake]: فَرِيسٌ is a dial. var. of the same. [See فَرَصَهُ, last signification.]
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