حصر

حَصُورٌ حصور One who has no sexual intercourse with women, (S, Mgh, K,) though able to have it, (K,) abstaining from them from a motive of chastity, and for the sake of shunning worldly pleasures: (TA:) or who is prevented from having it, (K, TA,) by impotence: (TA:) or who does not desire them, (IAar, A, Msb, K,) nor approach them: (IAar, K:) applied also to a horse, i. q. عِنِّينٌ. (IAar, TA in art. عجز.) In the Kur [iii. 34], applied to John the Baptist. (TA.) ― -b2- Castrated; (K;) having the penis and testicles amputated. (TA.) ― -b3- Very fearful or cautious; who abstains, or refrains, from a thing through fear. (K.) ― -b4- See also حَصِرٌ, in four places. ― -b5- Also A she-camel having a narrow orifice to the teat. (S, K.)