يبس

أَيْبَسُ ذ [comp. and superl. of يَابِسٌ]. ― -b2- [Hence the saying,] أَيْبَسُ مِنَ الصَّخْرِ (tropical:) Harder than rock. (A.) -A2- See also يَابِسٌ, near the beginning and at the end. -A3- الأَيْبَسُ, as a subst., not an epithet, (AHeyth,) The part of the shin-bone, in the middle of the shank, which, when pressed, pains one, (AHeyth, K,) and when it is broken, the leg is lost: (AHeyth:) or الأَيْبَسَانِ signifies the parts of the two shanks upon which is no flesh: (S:) or the parts of the two shanks of a horse upon which the flesh is dry, or tough: (AO:) or the shank-bones (M, TA) of the fore leg and hind leg: (TA:) or what appears of these: (M, TA:) or the parts above the كَعْباَنِ and زَنْدَانِ [app. here meaning the two ankles and wrists ]: (A:) pl. أَيَابِسُ: (S, K:) which is also applied to such parts as are like the hock, or hough, and the shank. (TA.) ― -b2- Also, the pl., Hard things upon which swords are tried. (K.)