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مِذْرًى ذ (S, M) and ↓ مِذْرَاةٌ (M) A wooden implement, (S, M,) or a small wooden implement, (so in one copy of the S,) having [ several ] ex tremities [or prongs ], (S,) with which one winnows (S, M) wheat, and with which the heaps of grain are cleared [ from the straw &c. ]: (S) or the former word signifies the thing with which the wheat is carried to be winnowed: and the latter, the wooden implement with which one winnows. (T.) -A2- Also, the former word, The extremity of the buttock: (AO, T, M, K:) or ↓ مِذْرَوَانِ signifies the two extremities of the two buttocks; (A'Obeyd, T, S, M, K *) or the two uppermost parts of the two buttocks; (Meyd in explaining a prov. cited below;) and it has no sing.; (A'Obeyd, T, S, M, Meyd, K;) for if the sing. were مِذْرًى, the dual would be مِذْرَيَانِ. (A'Obeyd, T, S, M, Meyd.) Hence, (Meyd,) ↓ جَاآءَ يَنْفُضُ مِذْرَوَيْهِ [ He came shaking the two extremities, or the two uppermost parts, of his buttocks ]; (S, Meyd, K;) a prov., applied to one behaving insolently (بَاغٍ), and threatening; (S, K; *) or to one threatening vainly: (Meyd, and Har p. 603:) and ↓ جَاآءَ يَضْرِبُ مِذْرَوَيْهِ [ He came striking. &c. ]; a prov. also, applied to him who has come empty, not having accomplished that which he sought. (Har ubi suprà.) ― -b2- ↓ مِذْرَوَانِ also signifies The two sides of the head: (M, K:) or مَذَارٍ signifies the temples of the head; and the sing. is مِذْرًى; accord. to AA. (S.) ― -b3- Also, ↓ مِذْرَوَانِ, The two places, of a bow, upon which lies the string, in the upper portion and the lower: (AHn, S, M, K: *) and in this sense it has no sing.: (S:) or, accord. to AA, its sing. is مِذْرًى. (M.)