مِهْرَاسٌ
Root: هرس
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مِهْرَاسٌ
[in the M, voce جُرْنٌ, q. v., accord. to the TA, مهرس, i. e., app. مِهْرَسٌ,] A stone hollowed out, oblong, and heavy, resembling a [vessel of the kind called] تَوْر, q. v., in which one bruises, brays, or pounds, and from which one performs the ablution termed
وُضُوْء; and it is also made of brass; and grain and other things are bruised in it: and sometimes, by a tropical application,
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