جس

مَجَسٌّ مجس (A, TA) and ↓مَجَسَّةٌ (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K) The place which one feels with his hand, (A,* Mgh, K, TA,) for the purpose of testing it, that he may form a judgment of it: (Mgh:) and ↓ the latter, the place which the physician feels [to know if a patient be hot or cold]: (S, Msb:) pl. مَجَاسُّ. (S, A, Msb, K.) You say, ↓مَجَسَّتُهُ حَارَّةٌ [The place in which one feels him is hot]. (A, TA.) And كَيْفَ تَرَى مَجَسَّهَا [How dost thou find the place in which one feels her?]; referring to a sheep or goat; to which one answers, "Indicative of fatness." (A.) ― -b2- [Hence, (assumed tropical:) Anything external which indicates the internal condition. ] It is said in a prov., (S, A, Msb, K,) relating to camels, (Msb,) أَفْوَاهُهَا مَجَاسُّهَا, (S, A, K,) or مَجَاسُّهَا أَفْوَاهُهَا, (Msb,) or أَحْنَاكُهَا مَجَاسُّهَا, (A, K,) (assumed tropical:) [ Their mouths, or their palates, are the things which indicate their internal condition: ] for if they eat well, he who looks at them sufficiently knows their fatness, (S, Msb, K,) without feeling them: (S, K:) if one see them eat well, it is as though he felt them: (A, TA:) or, accord. to AZ, they feel the herbage, to test it, with their heads [or mouths] and their palates: so that, accord. to his explanation, the term مجاسّ is tropically applied to these parts. (TA.) The prov. relates to external evidences of things explaining their internal qualities. (K) [And hence,] رَعَتِ الاـِبِلُ الكَلَأَ بِمَجَاسِّهَا, (K) (tropical:) The camels cropped the herbage with their mouths. (TA.)― -b3- You say also, فُلَانٌ وَاسِعُ المَجَسِّ, like as you say رَحْبُ الذِّرَاعِ (tropical:) [app. meaning Such a one is liberal, munificent, or generous ]: and in the contrary case, ضَيِّقُ المَجَسِّ, (A,) or ↓ المَجَسَّةِ, (K,) or both, (TA,) signifying غَيْرُ رَحْبِ الصَّدْرِ (tropical:) [app., not liberal ]; (K, TA;) and not وَاسِعُ السَّرْبِ [which is explained as meaning of ample bosom, and judgment, and love; and of ample way, or course of proceeding: but I rather incline to think that the right reading is وَاسِعُ السِّرْبِ, and the meaning, of ample, or large, mind, or heart ]. (TA.) You also say, لَضِيقًا ↓ اـِنَّ فِى مَجَسَّتِكَ (A) or مَجَسِّكَ (TA) (tropical:) [app,. Verily in thy bosom, or mind, or heart, is narrowness; or in thee is illiberality. ]