عصل

عَصَلٌ ذ [inf. n. of عَصِلَ, q. v.:] A twisting in the عَسِيب [or bone, or slender part, or part where the hair grows, ] of the tail (S, O, K) of the horse, (K,) so that a portion of the inner side upon which is no hair appears, (S, O,) or so that it hits [ the flesh of the part of the thigh that is called ] his كَاذَة and [ the flesh upon the socket of the hip, or the vein in the thigh, that is called ] his فَائِل. (K, TA. [In the CK, قَائِلَهُ is erroneously put for فَائِلَهُ.]) And Crookedness with hardness: (K:) or crookedness and strength or hardness of a canine tooth. (S, O.) -A2- Also sing. of أَعْصَالٌ signifying The intestines into which the food passes from the stomach; (As, S, O, K;) and it (the sing.) is also pronounced ↓ عِصْلٌ. (K.) ― -b2- And Wreathed, or twisting, and curved, sands: occurring in this sense in a trad. (TA.) ― -b3- And Certain trees which, when the camel eats thereof, cause him to void thin dung: (S, O:) or the trees called دِفْلَى [q. v.]: (K:) or certain trees resembling the دِفْلَى, which the camels eat, and after which they drink water every day: or, as some say, [ trees of the kind called ] حَمْض that grow upon, or at, the waters: (TA:) a single tree thereof is called عَصَلَةٌ. (S, O, K. [See also عَضَلَةٌ, in art. عضل.]) [Accord. to Forskål (Flora Aegypt. Arab. pp. cxiv. and 110) now applied to a species of Ocymum which he terms serpyllifolium. ]