Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

كَرَّازٌ ذ The ram that carries the خُرْج [i. e. the كُرْز q. v.] of the pastor: (S, Msb, K:) he goes before the people, (TA,) and has no horns; (S, Msb;) because that which has horns (الأَقْرَنُ) diverts himself with smiting others with his horns. (S.)

2 كرّسهُ ذ , (TA,) inf. n. تَكْرِيسٌ, (K, TA,) He put it, or placed it, namely, anything, one part upon another. (TA.) ― -b2- He put it together, one part to another. (TA.) ― -b3- He founded it, namely, a building. (K, TA.)

4 اكرست الدَّارُ ذ The house had in it compacted dung and urine of camels or of sheep or goats: S, A, * TA:) and in like manner you say of a place: (TA:) and اكرست الدّابَّةُ The beast of carriage had upon it, (K, TA,) i. e., upon its tail, (TA,) compacted dung and urine. (K, TA.) See كِرْسٌ.

5 تكرّس ذ It (anything) became put, or placed, one part upon another. (TA.) ― -b2- It became compacted and cohering; (A, * TA;) as also ↓ تكارس. (TA.) ― -b3- It (the foundation of a building) became hard and strong. (TA.) -A2- He collected together fire-wood, &c. (Msb.)

6 تَكَاْرَسَ see 5.

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. *)

كَرِسٌ ذ : see مُكْرِسٌ.

كُرْسِىٌّ ذ and (sometimes, S, Msb) كِرْسِىٌّ (S, Msb, K) A throne; syn. سَرِيرٌ: (K:) a chair: (TK:) a seat not larger than is sufficient for one person: (Bd, ii. 256:) [and a stool: ] pl. كَرَاسِىٌّ (S, Msb, K) and sometimes كَرَاسٍ, agreeably with a rule mentioned by ISk. (Msb.) It is the place [or seat] of the king, and of the learned man: and hence, as used in the Kur ii. 256, it is explained as signifying (tropical:) Dominion: (A:) and (tropical:) the power of God, whereby He holds the heavens and the earth: (TA:) and (tropical:) knowledge: (A, K:) which last explanation is ascribed to I'Ab: but the truth is, that I'Ab explained it as there signifying the [ foot-stool of God; or] place of the feet: but as to the عَرْش [of God], this is immeasurable: (Az, TA:) or it signifies the sphere of the stars. (TA, art. عرش.) [Hence, also, you say,] هُوَ مِنْ أَهْلِ الكُرْسِىِّ (tropical:) He is of the people of science. (TK.) [And hence,] الكَرَاسِىُّ is also used [elliptically] to signify (tropical:) The learned men; accord. to Ktr. (A.) ― -b2- Also, A prop, or support, for a wall. (TA.) ― -b3- [ذَاتُ الكُرْسِىِّ The Constellation Cassiopeia: see خَضِيبٌ.]

كِرْيَاسٌ ذ A privy on the top of the roof of a house, (S, A, * Msb, K,) with a conduit from the ground, (K,) or, as in some lexicons, to the ground: one that is below is not so called: (TA:) or the privy of an upper chamber: (MF:) of the measure فِعْيَالٌ, (Az, Msb, K,) from كِرْسٌ, meaning, “ compacted dung and urine of camels, or of sheep or goats: ” (Az, * A, * K, TA:) so called because of the filth that adheres to it, and becomes compacted: (Az, TA:) incorrectly said by some to be also written كِرْبَاسٌ, with the single-pointed letter [ب]: the pl. is كَرَايِيسُ. (TA.)

كُرَّاسٌ ذ : see what next follows.

كُرَّاسَةٌ ذ [ A quire, or parcel, of paper, generally consisting of five sheets, forming ten leaves, of a book; also vulgarly called كَرَّاسَةٌ and كَرَّاسٌ;] one of what are termed ↓ كُرَّاسٌ and كَرَارِيسُ; [كُرَّاسٌ being a coll. gen. n. and كَرَارِيسُ a pl.;] (S, A, K;) a portion of a صَحِيفَة [i. e. book or volume ]: (A, K:) so called because compacted: (TA:) or from تَكَرَّسَ signifying “ he collected together ” fire-wood, &c. (Msb.) You say, فِى هٰذِهِ الكُرَّاسَةِ عَشْرُ وَرَقَاتٍ [ In this quire of a book are ten leaves ]. (A.) And هٰذَا الكِتَابُ عِدَّةُ كَرَارِيسَ [ This book is composed of a number of quires ]. (A.) And قَرَأْتُ كُرَّاسَةً مِنْ كِتَابِ سِيبَوَيْهِ [ I read a quire of the Book of Seebaweyh ]. (A.) And التَّاجِرُ مَجْدُهُ فِى كِيسِهِ وَالعَالِمُ مَجْدُهُ فِى كَرَارِيسِهِ [ The merchant's glory is in his purse, and the learned man's glory is in his quires of books ]. (A.)

مُكْرَسٌ ذ : see مُكْرِسٌ. ― -b2- قِلَادَةٌ مُكْرَسَةٌ and ↓ مُكَرَّسَةٌ A necklace in which the pearls or other beads are strung upon two strings, and these are joined together by divisions of large beads: so in the TS and K, excepting that in the latter, فِى خَيْطٍ is erroneously put for فِى خَيْطَيْنِ. (TA.) [See كِرْسٌ, last signification.] And [in like manner], ↓ نَظْمٌ مُكَرَّسٌ and مُتَكَرِّسٌ A string of beads one above another. (TA.)

رَسْمٌ مُكْرِسٌ ذ (S) (in the L and TA مُكْرَسٌ, but the former, being agreeable with the verb, (see 4,) is probably the right reading,] Traces of men's abode in which is a compacted mixture of dung and urine of camels or of sheep or goats. (S, L, * TA. * [And accord. to the second and third of these authorities, ↓ كَرِسٌ seems to signify the same.])

مُكَرَّسٌ ذ : see مُكْرَسٌ: the former, in two places.

مُتَكَرِّسٌ ذ : see مُكْرَسٌ: the former, in two places.

1 كَرِشَ ذ , said of skin: see 5. -A2- كَرِشَ الرَّجُلُ, aor. كَرَشَ , (K, TA,) inf. n. كَرَشٌ, (TA,) (tropical:) The man came to have a numerous family, or household, after a while. (Sgh.) And (tropical:) The man came to have an army, or a military force, after having been alone. (K, TA.)

2 كرّش ذ inf. n. تَكْرِيشٌ, He made what is termed مُكَرَّشَة. (Az, K.) You say, كَرِّشُوا لَنَا مِنْ لَحْمِ جَزُورِكُمْ Make ye for us a مكرّشة of the flesh of your slaughtered camel. (TA.) -A2- (tropical:) He contracted his face; or contracted it much; [ making wrinkles in it like the plies of a كَرِش:] (K, TA:) and ↓ استكرش also signifies (tropical:) he shrank; contracted his face; frowned, or looked sternly or austerely or morosely. (Sh, TA.)

5 تكرّش ذ (tropical:) It (a man's face, S, A, K, and his skin, A, TA, or the skin of his face, or any skin, TA) contracted, or shrivelled, or shrank, (S, IF, A, K, TA,) and became like the كَرش: (IF, TA:) and ↓ كَرِشَ, aor. كَرَشَ , (A, K, TA,) inf. n. كَرَشٌ, (A, TA,) signifies the same, (A, K, TA,) said of skin, (K, TA,) when touched by fire. (TA.) You say, كَلَّمْتُهُ بِكَلَامٍ فَتَكَرَّشَ وَجْهُهُ (tropical:) I spoke some words to him and his face contracted. (A, TA.) -A2- تكرّشوا (tropical:) They collected, or assembled, themselves together. (Sgh, K.)

10 استكرشت الاـِنْفَحَةُ ذ The stomach of a sucking kid became a كَرِش: (S, K:) i. e., when he pastured upon herbage; (K;) for it is called انفحة as long as the kid does not eat; but when he eats, it is called كرش. (S.) ― -b2- Also استكرش He (a kid, and a boy,) became large in his stomach: or became hard in his palate, and wide in his belly, after he had become large: (TA:) or he (a lamb or kid or calf) became large in his belly: (IAar:) or he (a lamb or kid) became large in his belly, and ate much: (TA:) or he (a kid, A, and a boy, Az, TA) became large in his belly, and began to eat: (Az, A, TA,) but some disapprove of its being said of a boy, asserting that one says of a boy اـِسْتَجْفَرَ. (TA.) ― -b3- See also 2.

كِرْشٌ ذ : see كَرِشٌ.

كَرِشٌ ذ and ↓ كِرْشٌ [The stomach, or man, of any ruminant animal; ] the part of any ruminant, (S, K,) or of the animal that has a خُفّ, [here meaning of the camel, ] and of such as has a divided hoof, (A, Msb,) that corresponds to the مَعِدَة of a man: (S, A, Msb, K:) [it is in most cases four-fold; consisting of the first stomach, commonly called the paunch, which is the largest, and has no rugæ upon its internal surface, but a villous coat, having innumerable blunt papillæ which give it a general roughness, and from this the food is forced back into the mouth to be ruminated, as it is also from the second; the honeycomb stomach, which is the second, and which is so called from the cells which form its internal coat; the omasum, which is the third, and smallest, stomach, by some called the millet, but commonly the manyplies, because its internal surface has many plies, or folds, and strata super strata; and the abomasum, or fourth stomach, commonly called the rennetbag, or runnet bag, and the red, or reed, which is next in size to the paunch, and has an internal villous coat like that of the human stomach, but with longer and looser inner plies, or folds, and in this alone the true digestive process takes place:] but it is only thus called after the animal has begun to eat; being previously called اـِنْفَحَةٌ: (S, TA:) [or, accord. to some, the term is applied to the first and second stomachs, together; for it is said that] it empties itself into the قَطِنَة [or third stomach ], as though it were يَدُ جِرَابٍ [so in my original, but this seems to be a mistranscription for لَهُ جِرَابٌ, meaning a provisionbag for the animal ]: and it also pertains to the have or rabbit, and the jerboa: and is used [tropically] for that of man (TA:) it is of the fem gender: (S, K:) pl. [of pane.] أَكْرَاشٌ (TA) and [of mult.] كُرُوشٌ. (Msb, TA.) ― -b2- Hence the saying, (S, TA,) اـِنْ وَجَدْتُ اـِلَى ذٰلِكَ فَا كَرِشٍ, [in the CK, erroneously, فَاكْرِشْ.] meaning, (tropical:) If I find to that a way; (S, K, * TA;) said by a man upon whom one has imposed a difficult task; and originating from the fact that a man divided a sheep, or goat, in pieces, and put them into its stomach to cook them; and it was said to him, “ Put in the head ” whereupon he replied in the above words. (S, TA.) You say also, مَا وَجَدْتُ اـِلَيْهِ فَا كَرِشٍ (tropical:) I have not found to him, or it, a way. (TA.) And لَوْ وَجَدْتُ اـِلَيْهِ فَا كَرِشٍ, and بَابَ كَرِشٍ, and أدْنَى فِى كَرِشٍ, meaning, (tropical:) Had I found to him, or it, as much way as the mouth of a stomach, and the entrance of a stomach, and the least mouth of a stomach, لَأَتَيْتُهُ [ I had come to him, or I had done it ]. (Lh, TA.) And it is said in a trad. of El-Hajjáj, لَوْ وَجَدْتُ اـِلَى دَمِكَ فَا كَرِشٍ لَشَرِبَتِ البَطْحَاآءُ مِنْكَ, meaning, (tropical:) Had I found a way to [ shed ] thy blood [ the small pebbles of the bottom of the water-course had drunk from thee ]. (TA.) ― -b3- [Hence also,] you say, of land (أَرْض), اـِغْبَرَّتْ جِلْدَتُهَا وَرَقَّتْ كَرِشُهَا [lit. Its skin became dusty, and its stomach became thin ]; meaning, (tropical:) it became sterile. (TA.) -A2- And [hence,] (tropical:) A receptacle for perfumes, and for clothes: in this sense also fem.: and a place of collection of anything. (TA.) -A3- And (tropical:) A man's family, or household: and his young children: (A, K:) or his family, or household, consisting of his young children. (S, Msb.) You say, جَاآءَ يَجُرُّ كَرِشَهُ (tropical:) He came dragging along his family, or household. (A, TA.) And عَلَيْهِ كَرِشٌ مِنْ عِيَالٍ (tropical:) Upon him is dependent a large family. (A, * TA, in art. بقر.) And هُمْ, (S,) or لَهُ, (A,) كَرِشٌ مَنْثُورَةٌ, (S, A,) (tropical:) They are, (S,) or he has, (A,) scattered young children. (S, A.) And تَزَوَّجَ فُلَانَةَ فَنَثَرَتْ لَهُ كَرِشَهَا, (S, A, *) and بَطْنَهَا, (S,) (tropical:) He married, or took to wife, such a woman, and she bore to him many children. (S, A.) [See also art. نثر.] ― -b2- Also, (tropical:) A company, or congregated body, (S, A, Msb, K,) of men: (S, A, Msb:) pl. أَكْرَاشٌ. (A.) Hence the saying of Mohammad, الأَنْصَارُ كَرِشِى وَعَيْبَتِى (S, TA) (tropical:) The Ansár are my company, and my companions, whom I acquaint with my secrets, and in whom I trust, and upon whom I rely: (TA:) or the meaning is, they are my auxiliaries, from whom I derive aid; because the camel and the beast with a divided hoof draw the cud from the stomach: (TA:) or the depositories of my secrets and trusts, like as the كرش is the place of the food of the beast: (A:) or the objects of my love and compassion like young children. (Msb.) [And hence, app.,] الكَرِشَانِ is an appellation applied to [the tribes of] ElAzd and 'Abd-el-Keys. (S.) ― -b3- Also, (tropical:) The main part, or body of a people or company of men: (A, TA:) pl. أَكْرَاشٌ and كُرُوشٌ: or, as some say, these are pls. having no sing. [in this sense.] (TA.) -A4- ثَوْبُ أَكْرَاشٍ [app. from some peculiarity in its colours or texture,] (tropical:) A kind of garment, or cloth, of the description termed بُرُود of [ the fabric of ] El-Yemen. (Az, TA.)

أَكْرَشُ ذ (tropical:) A man large in the belly: or, as some say, having large property: (TA:) and [the fem.] كَرْشَاآءُ a woman large in the belly (ISk, S, K *) and wide. (TA.) Also the latter, (tropical:) A she-ass bulky in the flanks: (S, K:) or bulky in the belly and flanks. (A.) And the same applied to a foot (قَدَم), (tropical:) Having much flesh, and even in the part of the sole which is generally hollow, (S, K,) and short in the toes. (S.) And the same applied to a leathern bucket (دَلْو), (tropical:) (tropical:) Having swollen sides: (A:) or large and with swollen sides. (TA.) ― -b2- Also the fem., (assumed tropical:) Distant relationship. (K.) You say, بَيْنَهُمْ رَحِمٌ كَرْشَاآءُ (assumed tropical:) Between them is a distant relationship. (TA.)

تَكْرِيشَةٌ ذ What is cooked in the stomachs of ruminants. (AA, K.) See also what next follows.

مُكَرَّشَةٌ ذ [ A sort of haggess; or man stuffed with flesh-meat, or flesh-meat and fat, and cooked; ] a piece of the stomach of a ruminant, stuffed with flesh-meat, and fastened together with a skewer, and cooked: (A:) or a sort of food, made of flesh-meat and fat, in a piece cut out from the stomach of a camel; (K;) a sort of food of the people of the desert, made by taking flesh-meat marbled with fat (لَحْم أَشْمَط), well cut up into small pieces, and putting with it fat cut up in like manner, then putting it into a piece cut out from the stomach of a camel, after it has been washed, and its smooth side which is without any villous substance or feces has been cleansed, and fastening its edges together with a skewer, and digging for it a hole for fire, of the size thereof, and throwing into it heated stones, and lighting a fire over them, so that they become of a red heat, like fire, when the coals are put aside from them, and the مكرّشه is buried therein, and hot ashes are put over it; then some thick and tough firewood is kindled over it, and it is left until it is thoroughly well cooked, whereupon it is taken out, having become like one piece, the fat having melted with the flesh, and it is eaten with dates, being sweet. (Az, TA.)

كِرْشَبٌّ ذ i. q. قِرْشَبٌّ: (K:) or the former signifies Advanced in years, and hard, gross, or coarse: and the latter, a great eater, or voracious. (T.) The ك is said to be substituted for ق, or viciously pronounced for the latter letter. (MF.)

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Q. 1 كَرْفَأَتِ القِدْرُ ذ The pot frothed, or raised a scum, when about to boil. (S, K.) -A2- كَرْفَأَ, inf. n. كَرْفَأَةٌ; and ↓ تكرفأ; (like كرثأ and تكرثأ, K, which are said to be changed from the former; TA;) It (a collection of clouds) became large in quantity, and confused, and heaped up. (K.) ― -b2- كَرْفَؤُوا They became mixed together. (K.)

Q. 2 تَكَرْفَاَ see 1.

كِرْفِئٌ ذ i. q. كِرْثِئٌ; (K;) Clouds high and piled up, one upon another. (S) And كِرْفِئَةٌ A portion of such clouds. (S.) ― -b2- كِرْفِئٌ An egg-shell. (A'Obeyd, S.) It occurs again in art. كرف. (TA.)

كِرْفِئَةٌ ذ A ceratin tree, also called شَفَلَّحٌ. (K.)

كَرَفْسٌ ذ , (S, Msb, K,) so written in the Bári' and the T, but in some copies of the S, كَرْفَسٌ, [which is wrong,] (Msb,) [The herb smallage; apium graveolens of Linnæus,] a well known herb, or leguminous plant, (S, Msb, K,) of the hottest of leguminous plants (منْ أَحَرِّ البُقُولِ, TA, [but this is probably a mistake for مِنْ أَحْرَارِ البُقُولِ of the leguminous plants that are eaten without being cooked, or that are slender and succulent or soft or sweet, ]) the utilities of which are great; diuretic; a disperser of winds and flatulence; a cleanser of the kidneys and liver and bladder, opening obstructions thereof; a strengthener of the venereal faculty, especially its seeds pounded with sugar and clarified butter, wonderful when drunk three days, (K,) upon an empty stomach, with avoidance of hurtful things, (TA,) but injurious to the young in the womb, and to the pregnant, and to those affected with epilepsy: (K:) said by Lth to be a foreign word introduced into the Arabic language, (TA.) and thought to be so by Az: (Msb:) in the O said to be arabicized; and, in the language of the people of Ghazneh, called كرفح [or كرفج?] (TA.)

كُرْفُسٌ ذ Cotton: (K:) [like كُرْسُفٌ, from which it appears to be formed by transposition: see also كِرْبَاسٌ.]

كُرْكُبٌ ذ , like كُرْكُمٌ, A certain plant of sweet odour. (K.) The former word is a syn. of the latter. (TA.)

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Q. 1 كَرْمَحَ ذ , inf. n. كَرْمَحَةٌ, i. q. كَرْتَحَ, (S, art. كردح, and CK, and a MS copy of the K,) He (a short man) ran with short steps, and quickly: (S, ubi supra:) or i. q. كَرْبَحَ, the ب being changed into م, (TA,) he ran at a slower pace than that termed كَرْدَمَةٌ. (L, TA.) ― -b2- كَرْمَحْنَا فِى اآثَارِ القَوْمِ We ran heavily in the footsteps of, or after, the people, (AA, S, ubi supra, L.)

Q. 1 كرنب ذ , inf. n. كَرْنَبَةٌ, He fed a guest with كَرْنِيب. (K.) Ex. كَرْنِبُوا لِضَيْفِكُمْ فَاـِنَّهُ لَتَْحَانُ Feed your guest with كرنيب, for he is hungry. (TA.) ― -b2- Also, He ate [كرنيب, or] dates with milk. (K.) ― -b3- AHei and others assert the ن to be augmentative; but in the T, L, and K it is implied that it is radical. (MF.)

كُرْنُبٌ ذ , with damm; [so in the copies of the K in my hands, and in the O, and so accord. to the TA; but I think that the correct reading is كُرُنْبٌ, as the word is written by Golius, in one place, and by Freytag; although, in the K, by the words “ with damm, ” in the case of a quadriliteral word, is generally meant “ with damm to the first and third letters ”;] and كَرَنْبٌ; (K;) but it is commonly pronounced with damm [app. meaning to the first and second letters: كُرُنْب being the name now commonly given to the brassica oleracea, or cabbage; in Greek κράμβη ]: (TA:) the [ vegetable also called ] سِلْقٌ [properly beet; for which, possibly, cabbage may have been mistaken]: (AHn, K:) or a species thereof, (L, K,) sweeter and more tender than the قُنَّبِيط; of which the wild kind is bitter; and the quantity of two drachms of its roots, dried and pulverized, mixed with wine (شَرَاب), is a tried antidote against the bite of a viper. (Ibn-El-Beytár, K.) It is said, by the botanists, to be a Nabathean word, arabicized. (MF.)

كَرْنِيبٌ ذ and كِرْنِيبٌ (K) and كرناب (so in the TA) i. q. مَجِيعَ, (K,) which is the same as كُدَيْرَاءُ: (IAar:) Dates with milk. (T.)

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1 كَزَّ ذ , [second pers. كَزُزْتَ,] (K,) aor. كَزُ3َ , (MS, TA,) inf. n. كَزَازَةٌ (S, A, K) and كُزُوزَةٌ, (A, K,) It dried, or dried up; or became stiff, rigid, or tough; and contracted. (S, A, K.) You say, كَزَّتْ يَدُهُ His hand became dry, or stiff, rigid, or tough, and contracted. (A.) ― -b2- [Hence,] كَزَّتْ خُطَاهُ (tropical:) His steps were [ contracted, or] near together. (A, K.) ― -b3- [Hence also,] كَزَّتْ نَفْسُهُ and ↓ اكتزّت (tropical:) [ His soul became contracted; meaning, he became niggardly ]. (A.) And الرَّجُلُ ↓ اكتزّ (tropical:) The man shrank [ from giving ]. (K, * TA.) You say, فُلَانٌ لَا يَهْتَزُّ وَلٰكِنَّهُ يَكْتَزُّ (tropical:) [ Such a one does not rejoice, or is not active, or prompt, and brisk, or cheerfully excited, to give, but he shrinks from giving ]. (A, TA.) [كَزَزٌ (q. v. infra) seems to be an inf. n. of which the verb is كَزَّ, second pers. كَزِزْتَ, aor. كَزَ3َ , in the sense of ↓ اكتزّ as explained above.] ― -b4- كُزَّ He (a man) shrank, or became contracted, in consequence of the cold: (S:) or he became affected by what is termed كُزَاز: (A, K:) or he became affected by a rheum. (TA.) -A2- كَزَّهُ البَرْدُ and الدَّاآءُ [ The cold, and disease, made him to shrink, or become contracted, and to be affected with a tremour ]. (A.) ― -b2- كَزَّ الشَّىْءَ, (S, K,) aor. كَزُ3َ , inf. n. كَزٌّ, (TA,) He made the thing narrow, or strait. (S, K.) ― -b3- كَزَّتِ المَرْأَةُ دُمْلُجَهَا, (A, TA,) aor. كَزُ3َ , (TA,) (tropical:) The woman filled her armlet with her arm. (A, TA.)

4 اكزّهُ ا@للّٰهُ ذ God smote him, or afflicted him, with what is termed كُزَاز. (K.)

8 اـِكْتَزَ3َ see 1, in three places.

كَزٌّ ذ Dry, or dried up; or stiff, rigid, or tough; and contracted: (A, K:) pl. كُزٌّ. (K.) You say, يَدٌ كَزَّةٌ A dry, or stiff, rigid, or tough, and contracted, hand. (A.) And خَشَبَةٌ كَزَّةٌ A stiff, rigid, or tough, (TA,) or hard, (A,) and crooked, piece of wood. (A, TA.) And قَنَاةٌ كَزَّةٌ A hard and crooked spear or spear-shaft. (TA.) And قَوْسٌ كَزَّةٌ A stiff, rigid, or tough, bow: (S, A, K:) or a bow whereof the arrow does not go far, by reason of the narrowness of the former: (TA:) Aboo-Ziyád says, that the bow thus called is the smallest of bows: (AHn, TA:) pl. قِسِىٌّ كُزَّاتٌ. (A.) And بَكْرَةٌ كَزَّةٌ A narrow pulley-sheave, that makes a loud creaking (S, K) by reason of its narrowness. (TA.) And ذَهَبٌ كَزٌّ Tough gold: (A:) or very hard gold. (K.) And جَمَلٌ كَزٌّ A hardy, strong camel. (TA.) ― -b2- رَجُلٌ كَزٌّ, (S, A,) and كَزٌّ اليَدَيْنِ, (S, A, K,) (tropical:) A niggardly man. (S, A, K,) of little beneficence, (TA,) and of little compliance: (A, TA:) pl. كُزٌّ. (S.) ― -b3- وَجْهٌ كَزٌّ (assumed tropical:) A foul, or an ugly, face. (K.)

كَزَزٌ ذ Hardness and crookedness in a piece of wood, or in a spear or spear-shaft. (TA.) ― -b2- (tropical:) Niggardliness, (K,) and littleness of compliance and of beneficence. (TA.) See 1.

كُزَازٌ ذ (S, A, K) and ↓ كُزَّازٌ, (IAar, A, K,) or, accord. to Az, the latter is the correct form, and the former is vulgar, (A,) A contraction and tremour arising from cold: (A:) or a tremour arising from intense cold: (IAar, K:) or a certain disease arising from intense cold; (S, K;) being a spasmodic contraction so occasioned: or, accord. to the physicians, arising from the egress of much blood: (TA:) or a certain disease arising from cold, in consequence of which the patient trembles until he dies. (A.)

كُزَّازٌ ذ : see كُزَازٌ.

مَكْزُوزٌ ذ Made narrow, or strait. (S.) ― -b2- A man affected by what is termed كُزَاز: (S, A, K:) or affected by a rheum. (TA.)

كُزْبٌ ذ i. q. كُسْبٌ. (K.) ― -b2- [Coll. gen. n., A kind of ] hard trees. (K.)

كَزَبٌ ذ Smallness and contraction of the مُشْط (or metatarsal bones ) of the foot; which is a defect. (K.)

كَوْزَبٌ ذ Avaricious, or niggardly, and narrowminded. (K.)