عسج

1 عَسَجَ ذ , (K,) aor. عَسِجَ , (L, TA,) inf. n. عَسْجٌ (L, TA, and so in some copies of the S, in other copies of the S and in the O عَسَج [which is wrong],) and عَسِيجٌ and عَسَجَانٌ, (O, L, TA,) He [a camel] stretched out his neck in going along [ quickly: or went a pace quicker than that termed الذَّمِيل, but not so quick as that termed الوَسْجِ: see وَسَجَ]. (S, O, L, K, TA.) ― -b2- And عَسَجَ, aor. عَسِجَ , inf. n. عَسَجَانٌ, He (a beast) limped, halted, or was slightly lame: so in the M. (TA.) -A2- And Arab of the desert said, when the lion was desiring to devour him, and he [the lion] therefore betook himself to a tree [or shrub] of the species termed عَوْسَج, يُبْصِرُنِى لَا أَحْسَبُهْ يَعْسِجُنِى بِالخَوْتَلَهْ meaning يَخْتِلُنِى بِالعَوْسَجَةِ يَحْسَبُنِى لَا أُبْصِرُهُ [ He conceals himself, to seize me, by means of the 'owsajeh: thinking that I shall not see him: the transpositions in the verse being app. meant to be understood as occasioned by the terror of the man; for the words of the explanation may be read so as to have the same metre as those of the verse]. (TA.) -A3- عَسِجَ المَالُ, [aor. عَسَجَ ,] The camels became diseased from pasturing upon the [ shrubs called ] عَوْسَج. (O, K, TA.)