ودج

وَدَجٌ ذ , (S, K,) also written with kesreh, [app. وِدْجٌ, but perhaps وَدِجٌ,] (Msb,) and وِدَاجٌ, (S, K,) [A name given to each of the external jugular veins; ] a certain vein in the neck; (S, K;) one of two veins, which are called the وَدَجَانِ: (T, S, &c.:) these are two veins extending from the head to the lungs; and the pl. is أَوْدَاجٌ: (M:) or two great veins on the right and left of the pit between the clavicles: (Msb, TA:) they are by the side of the وَرِيدَانِ, [here app. meaning the two carotid arteries, ] and are of the number of the veins in which the blood [ merely ] runs, whereas the وريدان are for pulsation and for [the diffusion of] the soul, النفس [i. e النَّفْس, not النَّفَس; for, accord. to the Arabs, the animal soul (الرُّوحُ الحَيْوَانِىُّ, as is said in the KT,) diffuses itself throughout the body, from the heart, by means of the pulsing veins, or arteries]: (T, Msb, TA:) accord. to some, the ودج and وريد are the same; [meaning, that each of these names is applied to the external jugular vein:] (Msb:) or the اوداج are the veins which surround the windpipe: (TA:) or the ودج is the vein called the أَخْدَع, [elsewhere said to be a branch from the وريد, in the place where one is cupped,] which the slaughterer [ of an animal ] cuts through, thereby putting an end to life. (Msb.) ― -b2- وَدَجَانِ (tropical:) Two brothers: (S, K:) two persons mutually attached; likened to the two veins so called. (A.) بِئْسَ وَدَجَا حَرْبٍ هُمَا Two evil brothers of war are they two. (S.) -A2- وَدَجٌ (tropical:) A cause; a means whereby one attains to a thing; syn. سَبَبٌ and وَسِيلَةٌ; (K;) or, as in some lexicons, وُصْلَةٌ. (TA.) Ex. كَانَ فُلَانٌ وَدَجِى اـِلَى كَذَا Such a one was my means of attaining to such a thing. (TA.)