حت

حَتٌّ حت : see حُتَات. ― -b2- Also Dead; [as though strewn upon the ground, in fragments;] applied to locusts (جَرَاد): pl. أَحْتَاتٌ; (K;) its only pl. (MF.) [Hence, app.,] تَرَكُوهُمْ حَتًّا بَتًّا and حَتًّا فَتًّا (tropical:) They destroyed them. (A, TA.) ― -b3- Dates (تَمْر) not sticking together. (K, * TA.) [See also حُثٌّ.] ― -b4- (tropical:) A fleet, or swift, horse; (S, A;) as though he scraped the ground; (A;) light in pace, and wide in step: pl. as above: (S:) or a fleet, or swift, and excellent horse; (K;) that runs swiftly and much, or that furrows the ground much with his feet: (TA:) also generous and high-bred (كَرِيمٌ عَتِيقٌ [app. as applied to a horse]): (K:) and a fleet, or swift, camel: (K:) a quick-paced and light-paced camel; as also ↓ حَتْحَتٌ: (TA:) and a male ostrich. (K.) The Hudhalee says, (S,) namely, El-Aalam, (TA,) على حَتِّ البُرَايَةِ زَمْخَرِىِّ السْ سَوَاعِدِ ظَلَّ فِى شَرْىٍ طِوَالِ (S, TA:) he likens himself, says As, in his running and fleeing, to a male ostrich, as is shown by what precedes this verse: (S:) by حتّ البراية is said to be meant حَتٍّ عِنْدَ البُرَايَةِ, i. e. (tropical:) fleet, or swift, when emaciated by journeying; the subst. براية being said to be put for the inf. n. بَرْى: (A, * L:) some of the Basrees say that the poet means a camel; but As disapproves of this, because to that which he here describes he has before applied the epithet هِجَفّ: ISd says that in his opinion he likens his horse or his camel to a male ostrich, because of the epithet هجفّ, preceding, and because neither the horse nor the camel eats the colocynth, but this plant is cropped by ostriches; شرى meaning the colocynth: IJ says that شرى here signifies a tree of which bows are made; and the poet means that if the trees thus called are tall, they conceal him, and he is the more lonesome, or sad; and that if they were short, his eye would range freely, and he would be pleased, and would run gently. (L.) -A2- See also حَتَّى, near the end of the paragraph.