مِغْلَاقٌ

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مِغْلَاقٌ : see غَلَقٌ. [Hence] one says, فُلَانٌ مِفْتَاحٌ لِلْخَيْرِ مِغْلَاقٌ لِلشَّرِّ [Such a one is a key to that which is good, a lock to that which is evil].
2 And i. q. مِرْتَاجٌ [A thing with which a door is closed, or made fast, affixed behind the door, in the part next to the lock]. [See art. رتج: and see مِعْلَاقٌ, which seems to have the same, or a similar, meaning.])
3 And رَجُلٌ مِغْلَاقٌ. and قَوْمٌ مَغَالِيقُ, A man, and a company of men, by means of whom (عَلَى يَدَيْهِ, Msb, and عَلَى أَيْدِيهِمْ, TA,) the pledge is made a forfeit (يُغْنَقُ). And ذُو مِغْلَاقٍ means اَلَّذِى تُغْلَقُ عَلَى يَدِهِ قِدَاحُ المَيْسِرِ [app. One by means of whom the arrows in the game called الميسر are withheld from the rest of the players; i. e. by his winning]: or, accord. to Z, يُغْلِقُ الحُجَّةَ عَلَى الخَصْمِ [app. one who closes the argument against the adversary in a dispute]. (TA in art. علق.)
4 See also مِغْلَقٌ.

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