مسك

4 أَمْسَكَ ذ He retained; he withheld. (Msb.) ― -b2- He maintained: he was tenacious, or niggardly. ― -b3- He, or it, held fast a thing: and arrested it. ― -b4- أَمْسَكَهُ He held, retained, detained, restrained, stayed, confined, imprisoned, or withheld, him. (K.) ― -b5- أَمْسَكَ عَنِ الأَمْرِ He held, refrained, or abstained, from the thing. (Msb.) ― -b6- أَمْسَكَهُ He grasped it, clutched it, laid hold upon it; or seized it, (قَبَضَ عَلَيْهِ) بِيَدِهِ with his hand: (Msb:) or he took it; or took it with his hand, (أَخَذَهُ,) namely, a rope, &c.: (Mgh:) or he held, or clung, to it: (TA:) [as also بِهِ ↓ تَمَسكَ]. Also, أَمْسَكَ بِهِ signifies [ the same; or] he laid hold upon, or seized, somewhat of his body, or what might detain him, as an arm or a hand, or a garment, and the like: but أَمْسَقَهُ may signify he withheld him, or restrained him, from acting according to his own free will. (Mugh, art. بِ.) ― -b7- أَمْسَكَ بَطْنَهُ [ It bound, or confined, his belly (or bowels )]: said of medicine. (S, O, Msb, K; all in art. عقل.) ― -b8- الاـِمْسَاك, in relation to تَحْجِيل: see an unusual application of it in art. طلق, conj. 4.