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مَحْصُورٌ

Root: حصر

Full Definition

مَحْصُورٌ Straitened: [encompassed, or surrounded:] besieged, or beset, in a fortress. Confined, kept close, imprisoned, detained, retained, restrained, withheld, or prevented; as also حَصِيرٌ . Detained, restrained, withheld, or prevented, from journeying &c.; as also حَصِيرٌ and مُحْصَرٌ : [or this last signifies made to restrain himself: see 1.] See also حَصِرٌ.
2 Suffering suppression of the feces, or constipation of the bowels: [distinguished from مَأْسُورٌ: (see حُصْرٌ:) or] it also signifies suffering suppression of the urine.

def.2 A camel having upon him [or furnished with] a حِصَار.


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