غص

غُصَّةٌ ذ A thing lying across in the throat, or fauces, so as to cause a choking, or an obstruction, thereof; (IDrd, A, * K;) a thing by which one has his throat, or fauces, choked, or obstructed; (TA;) food by which one has his throat, or fauces, choked, or obstructed; (Msb;) i. q. شَجًا; (S, K;) [which has another meaning that will be found below; and both these meanings may be intended by it in the S; but in the K, the latter only seems to be intended; for there, between it and the explanation which is here first given, we find intervening the pl., and also, in the CK, the words وَقَدْ اَغْصَصْتُهُ فاغْتَصَّ;] a thing by which one is choked (شَجًا يُغَصُّ بِهِ, Lth, JK, TA) in the حَرْقَدَة [meaning the head of the windpipe ], (Lth, TA,) or in the throat, or fauces: (JK:) pl. غُصَصٌ. (S, Msb, K.) It is said in the Kur [lxxiii. 13], وَطَعَامًا ذَا غُصَّةٍ (TA) And food that sticks fast, (Bd,) or by which one is choked, (Jel,) in the throat, or fauces. (Bd, Jel.) ― -b2- And hence, (tropical:) Choking wrath or rage. (Msb.) ― -b3- [And (assumed tropical:) Grief, or disquietude of mind; a signification often occurring; and app. intended by the explanation شَجًا in the K. See what is said on this point above.] ― -b4- Hence also, غُصَصُ المَوْتِ [ The chokings, or strangulations, of death: the deathrattles: or (assumed tropical:) the agonies of death ]. (TA.)