وشج

وَشِيجٌ ذ Trees of which spears are made: (S, K:) or canes growing obliquely, or, as in the M, in an intricate manner: or the hardest of canes: or, as a coll. gen. n., (tropical:) spears; n. un. with ة: (TA:) [See also عِجْلَةٌ:] or, originally, the roots of canes: and afterwards applied to signify spears, themselves; so called because of their intermingling when meeting together. (Ham, p. 165.) ― -b2- تَطَاعَنُوا بِالوَشِيجِ (tropical:) They thrust one another with the spears. (A.) ― -b3- أَفْنَتِ السَّنَةُ الوَشِيجَ Drought destroyed the tangled trees, or their roots; no moisture remaining in the earth. (TA, from a trad.) ― -b4- وَشِيجٌ The roots of the sinews. (TA.) ― -b5- وَشِيجٌ (tropical:) Intricacy of relationship: (S, K:) pl. وَشَائِجُ. (TA.) Ex. بَيْنَهُمْ وَشَائِجُ النَّسَبِ There is an intricacy of relationship between them. (TA.)