حجم

حَجْمٌ حجم A rising, protuberant, or prominent, part of a thing: (S:) a projection, protrusion, prominence, or protuberance; (S, Mgh;) and a rising, or an elevation: (Mgh:) or the part of a thing that one feels beneath his hand: (ElGhooree, Mgh:) or the part of a thing that one feels projecting, protruding, prominent, or protuberant, beneath his hand: pl. حُجُومٌ. (K.) One says, لَيْسَ لِمِرْفَقِهِ حَجْمٌ There is no projection, protrusion, prominence, or protuberance, to his elbow. (S.) Lh says that حَجْمُ العَظْمِ means One's perceiving the feel of the bones [or bone ] behind the skin: thus explaining it after the manner of explaining inf. ns.: and ISd says, I known not whether it be in his opinion an inf. n. or a simple subst. (TA.) And Lth says that الحَجْمُ means One's perceiving the feel of a thing beneath a garment: [and that] one says, مَسَسْتُ بَطْنَ الحُبْلَى فَوَجَدْتُ حَجْمَ الصَّبِىِّ فِى بَطْنِهَا [which plainly means, I felt the belly of the pregnant woman, and perceived the bulging of the child in her belly ]. (Mgh, TA.) It is said [of a woman's garment] in a trad., لَا يَصِفُ حَجْمَ عِظَامِهَا [lit. (tropical:) It does not describe the projecting of her bones ]: meaning, the garment does not stick to her body so as to tell what projects of her bones: it is made to be a describer by way of comparison. (IAth, TA.) ― -b2- [In post-classical works it is often used as signifying Bulk, bigness, or magnitude. ]