حوش

8 احتوش القَوْمُ الصَّيْدَ ذ , (S, Msb, K,) and, more commonly, بِالصَّيْدِ, (Msb,) The people, or company of men, encompassed, or surrounded, the chase, or game: (Msb:) or scared it, one, or one party, to another: (S, K:) the و remaining here unchanged as it does in اِجْتَوَرُوا. (S.) And احتوشو فُلَانًا (A, TA) They encompassed, or surrounded, such a one: (A:) or they made such a one to be in the midst of them; (TA;) as also احتوشوا عَلَيْهِ, (S, K,) [and احتوشوا حَوَالَيْهِ, (M and O in art. حول,)] and ↓ تحاوشوهُ, (K,) or تحاوشوهُ بَيْنَهُمْ. (TA.) ― -b2- Hence the phrase احتوش الدَّمُ الطُّهْرَ (assumed tropical:) [ The blood invaded from every quarter the state of pureness ]; as though the blood encompassed the pureness, and enclosed it on either side. (Msb.) [Alluding to the collecting of the blood about the uterus previously to menstruation.]