حمى

حَامِيةٌ حامي حاميه حامية : see حَامٍ. ― -b2- Also A great, or wide, or great and wide, mass of stone, (حِمَارَةٌ K accord. to the TA,) or the stones, (حِجَارَة, so in some copies of the K,) with which a well is cased: (K:) pl. حَوَامٍ: (TA:) or the latter signifies the stones &c. with which a well is cased, to protect its sides from becoming dirty and disordered: (Ham p. 62:) or great and heavy stones: and also large masses of rock which are placed in the last parts of the casing [ of a well ] if it falls out through age: they dig out hollows, and build them therein, so that they suffer not the earth to come near to the casing, but repel it: (ISh:) and all the stones [ of the casing ] of a well, matching one another, none of them larger than another. (AA.) ― -b3- The circuit of the solid hoof: (Ham p. 62:) or [the dual] حَامِيَتَانِ signifies the part on the right and left of the toe of the solid hoof: (AO, S:) or [the pl.] حَوَامٍ signifies the right and left edges of the solid hoofs; (As, TA;) between them are [ the ] نُسُور [or frogs ], like hard date-stones: (Aboo-Dáwood, TA:) or the right and left sides of the solid hoof. (K.) ― -b4- [The pl. also signifies The sides of a mountain. (Freytag, from the Deewán of Jereer.)] ― -b5- Also, the sing., i. q. أُثْفِيَّةٌ [i. e. Any one of the three stones on which the cookingpot is placed ]: (AA, K:) pl. as above. (TA.) ― -b6- مَضَيْتُ عَلَى حَامِيَتِى means I went my own way. (Sgh, K.)