مُجْمِدٌ
Root: جمد
Full Definition
2 The person who is entrusted with the management of affairs in a game of chance (قِمَار [here meaning the game called المَيْسِر]): [i. q. ضَرِيبٌ:] or the person entrusted with the management of affairs among a people or party, who does not take part in the game called المَيْسِر, except that he shuffles the arrows (يَضْرِبُ بِهَا) for the players, and has them placed in his hands, and is confided in with respect to them, and compels him who has incurred an obligation to fulfil it: or one who takes no part in the game called المَيْسِر, (who is called بَرَمٌ,) but who sometimes shuffles, or deals forth, the arrows, (يُفِيضُ بِهَا,) for the players; so in the following verse of Tarafeh:
[And of many a yellow arrow, changed in colour by fire, I have awaited the sound over the fire, and I have deposited it in the hand of one taking no part in the game but only shuffling, or dealing forth, the arrows for the players]; meaning, I have awaited its sound, which was like an answer proceeding from it, when I straightened it and marked it, over the fire: [or, accord. to the EM , where we find حِوَارَهُ in the place of حَوِيرَهُ, the meaning is, and of many a yellow arrow, &c., I have awaited the returning and gaining, while we were assembled at the fire, &c.:] or مجمد here means a man taking with both his hands so as not to let anything go forth from them: or, accord. to As, it here means a man entering upon Jumádà, which was in that [the poet's] time a month of cold: or one whose arrow does not gain anything in the game called المَيْسِر: or a person in whom one confides, and who is tenacious of that which is in his hand or possession, and not to be deceived.وَأَصْفَرَ مَضْبُوحٍ نَظَرْتُ حَوِيرَهُ عَلَى النَّارِ وَٱسْتَوْدَعْتُهُ كَفَّ مُجْمِدِ
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