حشو

حَشْوٌ ذ , like the inf. n., (TA,) Stuffing; (PS;) [i. e.] what is put into a pillow, or cushion, &c.: (K, TA:) and [hence] cotton: and the seeds used for seasoning food, [and the rice &c., ] with which the belly of a lamb is stuffed: pl. ↓ مَحَاشٍ, deviating from rule. (TA.) ― -b2- (tropical:) The soul of a man. (K, TA.) ― -b3- (assumed tropical:) [ A parenthesis; ] a redundant part, or portion, of speech, or of a sentence, (K, TA,) upon which nothing is syntactically dependent. (TA. [See Har pp. 85 and 86.]) ― -b4- (assumed tropical:) [ A digression. ] ― -b5- (assumed tropical:) The portion of either hemistich of a verse that is comprised between the first and last foot. (KT, &c.) ― -b6- (assumed tropical:) Small, or young, camels, (S, K,) among which are no great, or old, ones; (S, TA;) as also ↓ حَاشِيَةٌ: (S, K:) so called because they enter, or occupy the spaces, among the latter; or because they go against the sides of the latter: (TA:) accord. to ISk, (S,) ↓ الحَاشِيَتَانِ signifies [ the camel termed ] اِبْنُ المَخَاضِ and [ that termed ] اِبْنُ اللَّبُونِ: (S, and K in art. حشى:) the pl. [of حَاشِيَةٌ] is ↓ حَوَاشٍ. (TA.) It is said in a trad. respecting the poorrate, أَمْوَالِهِمْ ↓ حُذْ مِنْ حَوَاشِى, i. e., accord. to IAth, (assumed tropical:) Take thou of the small, or young, of their camels; such as those termed ابن المخاض and ابن اللبون. (TA. [But see another explanation of this saying voce حَاشِيَةٌ in art. حشى.]) ― -b7- And حَشْوٌ and ↓ حَاشِيَةٌ signify also (assumed tropical:) The like of mankind; (S;) [i. e.] حَاشِيَةٌ signifies (tropical:) the lower or lowest, baser or basest, meaner or meanest, sort, or the rabble, or refuse, of mankind, or of the people; (TA in art. حشى, and Har p. 61;) as also حَشْوٌ [which is of frequent occurrence in this sense]; (KL;) and ↓ حِشْوَةٌ; (S, TA;) such as servants and the like. (Har ubi suprà, in explanation of حاشية. [See also this word in art. حشى.]) You say, ↓ جَاآءَ فُلَانٌ مَعَ حَاشِيَتِهِ (assumed tropical:) Such a one came with those who were in his quarter and protection: but this may be from حَشًا signifying “a region, quarter, or tract;” servants and followers being in the quarter and protection of their master. (Har ubi suprà.) And فُلَانٌ بَنِى فُلَانٍ ↓ مِنْ حِشْوَةِ (assumed tropical:) Such a one is of the lower or lowest, &c., of the sons of such a one. (S.) ― -b8- See also حُشْوَةٌ. -A2- Also A stuffed garment. (Mgh.)