موت

مُسْتَمِيتٌ ذ A courageous man, who seeks, or courts death: (K:) a man who seeks to be slain; who cares not, in war, for death: (S:) abandon- ing, or devoting, himself to death, (مسْتَرْسِلٌ لِلْمَوْتِ,) as also مُسْتَقْتِلٌ. (A.) ― -b2- (assumed tropical:) Abandoning, or devoting himself to a thing, or affair; syn. مُسْتَرْسِلٌ لِأَمْرٍ. (S, K.) ― -b3- هَوَ مُسْتَمِيتٌ اـِلَى كَذَا, as also مُسْتَهْلِكٌ, (tropical:) He [ is devoted to such a thing, so that he ] imagines that he shall die if he do not attain it. (A.) ― -b4- Ru-beh says, وَزَبَدُ البَحْرِ لَهُ كَتِيتُ وَاللَّيْلُ فَوْقَ المَاءِ مُسْتَمِيتُ [ And to the froth of the sea there was a sound like that of boiling, and night impended over the water ]. (S.) [It is implied in the S that مستميت here signifies مُسْتَرْسِل.] ― -b5- (assumed tropical:) One who feigns himself to be insane, or possessed by a devil; not being really so. (TA.) ― -b6- (assumed tropical:) One who feigns lowliness, or submissiveness, in voice, &c., to this man until he feeds him, and to this until he feeds him, and, when he is satiated, is ungrateful to his benefactors. (TA.) ― -b7- (assumed tropical:) One who makes a show of being good and quiet or tranquil, and is not so in reality. (Ibn-El-Mubárak.) -A2- مُسْتَمِيتٌ The thin pellicle that adheres to the white of an egg. (K.) [See 10: and see also مُسْتَمِيثٌ, in art. ميث.]