كرس

كِرْسٌ ذ Compacted, or caked, or a cake of, dung and urine of camels and of sheep or goats, (S, * A, * K, * TA,) in a house, and upon the traces of men's abode: (TA:) and also, compacted clay or mud: (TA:) pl. أَكْرَاسٌ. (A, TA.) [Hence,] كِرْسُ الحَوْضِ The place in which the camels stand at the watering-trough or tank, and which in consequence becomes compacted [ by the mixture of their dung and urine with the soil ]. (TA.) ― -b2- كِرْسُ بِنَاآءٍ [ The foundation, or lowest part of a building: see 2]. (TA.) -A2- One of the أَكْرَاس [meaning series or strings of beads ] of [ the necklaces and similar ornaments called ] قَلَائِد and وُشُح and the like: you say, قِلَادَةٌ ذَاتُ كِرْسَيْنِ [ a necklace of two such series ], and ذَاتُ أَكْرَاسٍ ثَلَاثَةٍ [ of three such series ], when you join one part to another [ in several places, by larger beads: see قِلَادَةٌ مُكْرَسَةٌ, below]. (Lth, K. *)