Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

وَسُوطٌ ذ : see وَسَطٌ, as an epithet, in two places.

وَسِيطٌ ذ : see وَسَطٌ, as an epithet, in five places. ― -b2- A mediator, or an intercessor, for the purpose of accommodation, (O, K,) between people, (O,) or between two persons engaged in mutual altercation or litigation. (K.)

وَسَاطَةٌ ذ [originally an inf. n.: (see 1:) ― -b2- and hence, as a subst., Mediation, or intercession ]. (S, K: see 5.) ― -b3- وَسَاطَةُ الدَّنَانِيرِ The best of deenárs. (TA.)

[ وَسِيطَةٌ ذ A mean, or means: pl. وَسَائِطُ.]

وَاسِطٌ ذ : see وَسَطٌ, as a subst., and also as an epithet. ― -b2- وَاسِطُ الكُورِ, (Lth, S, K,) or الرَّحْلِ, (ISh, Az, M,) and ↓ وَاسِطَتُهُ, (Lth, M, K,) and ↓ مَوْسِطَتُهُ, (Lh, M, [or perhaps ↓ مُوسِطَتُهُ, corresponding to ↓ مُؤْخِرَتُهُ,]) The fore-part of the camel's saddle: (S, K:) accord. to Lth, (Az, TA,) the part, of the camel's saddle, which is between the تَادِمَة and the اآخِرَة; (Az, M, L;) but this is a mistake; (Az, L;) for the واسط of the camel's saddle is one of the شَرْخَانِ, (ISh, Az, L,) which are its two extremities, [or upright pieces of wood, ] like the قَرَبُوسُانِ of the horse's saddle, (Az, L,) between which the rider sits; (ISh, Az, L;) it is the extremity which is next to the head of the camel; (Az, L;) the tall forepart next to the breast of the rider, (ISh, Az, L,) against which the breast of the rider sometimes strikes; (TA, in art. نحز;) the اآخِرةَ being the extremity which is next to the tail of the camel; (Az, L;) the hinder part of the saddle, which is its tall and broad piece of wood that is against (تُحَاذِى) the head of the rider: (ISh, Az, L:) the former of these is not called واسط as being a middle part between the اآخرة and the قادمة, as Lth says; nor has the camel's saddle any [part called] قادمة. (Az, L.) ― -b3- الوَاسِطُ also signifies The piece of wood that is in the middle, between the two pieces called the عِضَادَتَانِ, in the yoke that is upon the neck of a bull which draws a cart or the like. (L in art. عضذ.)

وَاسِطَةٌ ذ The jewel that is in the middle of a قِلَادَة [or necklace], which is the best thereof; (S;) the large pearl (دُرَّة) that is in the middle thereof, which is the most precious of the beads thereof. (L.) ― -b2- [In modern Arabic, A means of doing a thing. You say, بِوَاسِطَةِ كَذَا By means of such a thing. ― -b3- Also, An intermediary, interposer, or agent between parties; a go-between. ] ― -b4- See also وَاسِطٌ. ― -b5- هُوَ فِى وَاسِطَةٍ مِنَ العَيْشِ (assumed tropical:) He is in a good condition of life. (Er-Rághib, TA, in art. حف.)

أَوْسَطُ ذ ; fem. وُسْطَى; pl. masc. أَوَاسِطُ; pl. fem. وُسَطٌ: see وَسَطٌ, as a subst., in two places; and as an epithet, throughout.

مُوسَطٌ ذ What is in the middle of a بَيْت [i. e. house, or tent, &c.], particularly. (Ibn-'Abbád, K.)

مَوْسِطَةٌ ذ , or مُوسِطَةٌ: see وَاسِطٌ.

قَتَلَ فُلَانًا مُوَسَّطًا ذ He slew such a one cut [ in the middle, or midst, ] in two halves. (TA.) [This mode of slaughter, termed تَوْسِيطٌ, was often practised under the rule of the Egyptian Sultáns; many instances thereof being mentioned by ElMakreezee and other historians. See De Sacy's Chrest. Ar., 2nd ed., vol. i. p. 468.]

مُتَوَسِّطٌ ذ : see وَسَطٌ, as an epithet, in two places.

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R. Q. 1 [وَشْوَشَ, inf. n. وَشْوَشَةٌ, He spoke in a low, faint, gentle, or soft, manner, with confusedness; accord. to an explanation, given by Khaleefeh, of the inf. n.; or the word of which he gave that explanation was وَسْوَسَةٌ, with س: (see وَسْوَسَ:) or he spoke confusedly, so as to be hardly intelligible: or he spoke in a low, faint, gentle, or soft, manner: (see وَشْوَشَةٌ below: and see R. Q. 2:) in the present day it signifies he whispered: and وَشْوَشَهُ, he whispered to him. ] -A2- وَشْوَشْتُهُ, [or rather, app., وَشْوَشْتُهُ اـِيَّاهُ,] I gave or handed, it to him in a small quantity. (K.)

R. Q. 2 تَوَشْوَشُوا ذ They were in a state of commotion, and spoke together one to another, or some of them to others, in a low, faint, gentle, or soft, manner. (IDrd, K.)

وَشْوَشٌ ذ : see وَشْوَاشٌ.

وَشْوَشَةٌ ذ Speech with confusedness, (S, K,) so as to be hardly intelligible: (TA:) or confused speech: or low, faint, gentle, or soft, speech: or such a word or saying. (TA.) See R. Q. 1. -A2- Lightness, activity, or agility. (K.)

وَشْوَشِىٌّ ذ : see وَشْوَاشٌ.

وَشْوَاشٌ ذ Light, active, or agile; (Lth, S, K;) applied to a man; (S;) and to an ostrich; (AA, K;) and so ↓ وَشْوَاشَةٌ applied to a she-camel; (K;) or this last, so applied, signifies quick, and light or active or agile; and so وَشْوَاشٌ applied to a he-camel; and ↓ وَشْوَشٌ applied to a he-camel and to a man. (TA.) You say also, الذِّرَاعِ ↓ رَجُلٌ وَشْوَشِىُّ, meaning, نشَنَشِييُّهُ, (K,) i. e., A man slender in the [ fore ] arm, and light, or active, in work. (AO, TA.)

وَشْبٌ ذ [app. meaning Fleshy ] is from the expression تَمْرَةٌ وَشْبَةٌ, (in one copy of the K, وَشْبَاءُ, TA,) A date having a thick لِحَاآء [i. e. pulp, or flesh ]. (K.) Of the dial. of El-Yemen. (TA.)

وِشْبٌ ذ sing. of أَوْشَابٌ, (K,) which is the same as أَوْبَاشٌ (S, K) and أَشْوَابٌ, (TA,) [but see this last word, in art. شوب,] and signifies, A medley, or mixed multitude; (K;) or sundry, or separate sorts of people; (S;) and young men of the baser sort. (TA.) A term of dispraise only. (Marg. note in a copy of the S.)

1 وَشَجَتِ العُرُوقُ والأَغْصَانُ ذ The roots and branches became entangled together. (S.) ― -b2- وَشَجَ, aor. يَشِجُ, inf. n. وَشْجٌ and وَشِيجٌ, It (anything) became entangled, intermixed, confused, or intricate. (TA.) ― -b3- وَشَجَتْ فِى قَلْبِهِ أُمُورٌ وَهُمُومٌ (tropical:) Affairs, and griefs, or solicitudes, became perplexing in his heart. (TA.) ― -b4- قَدْ وَشَجَتْ بِكَ قَرَابَةُ فُلَانٍ, aor. تَشِجُ, K,) (tropical:) The relationship of such a one to thee has become intricate; (S, K, TA;) like as the roots and branches of trees become intricate. (TA.)

2 وَشّج القَرَابَةَ ذ , inf. n. تَوْشِيجٌ, (tropical:) He (God) made the relationship intricate. (S, K.) ― -b2- وشّج اللّٰهُ بَيْنَهُمْ (tropical:) God joined and mixed them together. (TA.) ― -b3- وشّج He laced together a مَحْمِل [or basket in which grapes are carried to the dryingplace] with a leather thong, or the like, (such as a شَرِيط, TA,) lest anything should fall from it. (K.)

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.)

وَشِيجَةٌ ذ The root (عِرْق) of a tree. (S, K.) ― -b2- See وَاشِجَةٌ. ― -b3- وَشِيجَةٌ [ An implement made of ] fibres of the palm tree (ليف) twisted, and then tied (or, as in some lexicons, attached in the manner of a net, TA,) between two pieces of wood, (or a net between two pieces of wood, TA,) upon which reaped wheat &c. are carried. (S, K.)

وَاشِجٌ ذ Anything entangled, intermixed, confused, or intricate. (TA.)

وَاشِجَةٌ ذ (S, K) and ↓ وَشِيجَةٌ (TA) (tropical:) Intricate relationship; or intricate uterine relationship; (S, K;) and close. (TA.) Ex. بَيْنَهُمْ وَاشِجَةُ رَحِمٍ Between them is an intricate and close relationship. (TA.)

أَمْرٌ مُوَشَّجٌ ذ An intricate, or a confused, affair. (TA.)

2 وشّح المَرْأَةَ ذ , inf. n. تَوْشِيجٌ, He put on the woman a وِشَاح, q. v. (S, K.) ― -b2- See 5. ― -b3- وشّحهُ وِشَاحًا (tropical:) He struck him a blow upon the place of the وِشَاح. (TA.)

5 توشّحت ذ , (S, K,) and ↓ اتّشحت, (K,) She (a woman) put on, or decked herself with, a وِشَاح q. v. (S, K.) ― -b2- تّوشح بِثَوْبِهِ, (S, K, &c.,) and بِهِ ↓ اتّشح, (Msb,) (tropical:) i. q. تَقَلَّدَ: (K:) but MF disapproves of this explanation: (TA:) or He put his garment under his right arm-pit, and threw it [meaning a portion of it ] over his left shoulder, like as the مُحْرِم does; (T, Msb;) like تَأَبَّطَ and اِضْطَبَعَ: (T:) or he threw a portion of his garment over his left shoulder, and drew its extremity under his right arm, and tied the two extremities together in a knot upon his bosom. (M.) Also, He wrapped himself up in his garment. (L.) ― -b3- الثَّوْبَ ↓ وشّحهُ, as also أَشَّحَهُ (tropical:) He put on him the garment in the manner described in the explanation of the phrase توشّح بِثَوْبِهِ. (M, L.) ― -b4- توشّح بِسَيْفِهِ (S, K, &c.) (tropical:) i. q. تَقَلَّدَهُ: (K:) [or i. q. ] توشّح بِحَمَائِلِ سَيْفِهِ He put the suspensories of his sword over his left shoulder, leaving the right bare: (T:) and توشّح بِنِجَادِهِ [signifies the same]. (A.) ― -b5- توشح بِلِجَامِهِ (L) (tropical:) He threw the bit and bridle of his horse upon his shoulder, and put his arm through it, so that it became like a وِشَاح. (Expos. of the Mo'allakát printed at Calcutta, p. 171.) [See the verse of Lebeed quoted below.] ― -b6- توشّح ا@مْرَأَةً (tropical:) Inivit feminam: (A, TA:) or he embraced a woman round the neck, and turned her over. (TA.)

8 اـِوْتَشَحَ see 5, in two places.

اـِأُشَاحٌ ذ : see وِشَاحٌ.

وِشَاحٌ ذ and وُشَاحٌ, (S, K,) also written ↓ اـِشَاحٌ and أُشَاحٌ, and by poetic licence ↓ وِشْحَنٌّ, (S.) An ornament worn by women, (L,) [ consisting of ] two series (كِرْسَانِ) of pearls and jewels strung or put together in regular order, which two series are disposed, or placed, contrariwise, (يُخَالَفُ بَيْنَهُمَا,) one of them being turned (مَعْطُوف) over the other [ so that they cross each other ]: (L, K:) or a thing woven of leather, and adorned with jewels, like a قِلَادَة, worn by a woman: (Msb:) or a wide [ piece, or thing, of ] leather, (K,) or a thing woven of leather, in a wide, or broad, form, (S,) and adorned with jewels, which a woman binds (تَشُدُّهُ) between her shoulders and her flanks: (Lth, S, Mgh, K:) or a قِلَادَة of the belly, which is sometimes long, so that the redundant portions of its two extremities are thrown over the shoulders: (Mgh:) or one of a pair of necklaces which a woman makes to hang down upon her sides; one upon her right side, and the other upon her left: (W. 144:) [hence it seems to be of different kinds; one kind consisting of two ornaments resembling necklaces, one of which rests upon the right shoulder and against the left flank, the other resting upon the left shoulder and against the right flank; another kind seems, from an expression in the A, “ a woman bearing a وِشَاح, and وِشَاحَيْنِ, ” to be one such ornament; another, an ornament resembling a necklace, thrown over the head, so as to rest upon the shoulders, crossing in front, and passing round the loins, and is tied or crossed in front, and of which the redundant portions are thrown over the shoulders: see also كَشْحٌ:] pl. وُشُحٌ and أَوْشِحَةٌ (S, K) and وَشَائِحُ: (M, K:) the last thought by ISd to be formed as though from وشاحة. (L.) ― -b2- Lebeed says: وَلَقَدْ حَمَيْتُ الحَىَّ تَحْمِلُ شِكِّتِى فُرُطٌ وِشَاحِى اـِذْ غَدَوْتُ لِجَامُهَا [ And I have protected the tribe; a swift, outstripping, horse, whose bit and bridle were my وِشَاح when I went away, bearing my arms: see توشّح بلجامه]: he relates his having gone forth as a scout for his people, mounted on his camel, with his horse by his side, and bearing its bit and bridle like a وشاح, so that he might bit the horse if he perceived the enemy. (L.) ― -b3- وِشَاحٌ (assumed tropical:) A bow: (L:) [so called because of the manner in which it is worn]. ― -b4- وِشَاحٌ (M) and ↓ وِشَاحَةٌ (M, K) (assumed tropical:) A sword: (M, K:) so called because of the manner in which it is worn: see 5. (M.) ― -b5- هِىَ غَرْثَى الوِشَاحِ, [and عَطْشَى الوِشَاحِ, or عَطِشَةُ الوِشَاحِ, and جَائِعَةُ الوشاح,] (tropical:) She is slender in the belly and flanks. (K.) [See also art. غرث.]

وِشَاحَةٌ ذ : see وِشَاحٌ.

وَشْحّاآءُ ذ A she-goat (S, K) that is black, (L,) with a white mark, or with two white marks, like a وِشَاح; expl. by مُوَشَّحَةٌ بِبَيَاضٍ. (S, L, K.)

مُوَشَّحٌ ذ (tropical:) A garment, and a cock, having two marks like a وِشَاح. (L.) ― -b2- مُوَشَّحَةٌ (tropical:) A gazelle, and a sheep, and a bird, having two streaks, or strips, one on each side. (L.) [See صُلْصُلٌ.]

1 وَشَرَ ذ , (S, K,) inf. n. وَشْرٌ, (TA,) He sawed a piece of wood with a مِيشَار; a dial. form of أَشَر; (S, K;) i. q. نَشَرَ. (K.) ― -b2- وشَرَتْ, aor. تَشِرُ, (Msb,) inf. n. وَشْرٌ, (S, K,) She (a woman) sharpened (S, Msb, K) her teeth, (S, K,) or her canine teeth, (Msb.) and made them thin [ and serrated ], (S, Msb, K,) meaning their edges: (TA:) [as also أَشَرَتْ.] See وَاشِرَةٌ.

10 استوشرت ذ She (a woman) asked for her [ teeth or] canine teeth to be sharpened and made thin [ and serrated ]. (Msb.)

وُشُرٌ ذ a dial. form of أُشُرٌ [ A serration and a sharpness of the extremities of the teeth]. (Sgh, K.)

وَاشِرَةٌ ذ A woman who sharpens and makes thin [ and serrated ] the [ teeth, or] canine teeth. (Msb.) It is said in a trad., لَعَن اللّٰهُ الوَاشِرَةَ وَالمُوتَشِرَة [ May God curse her who sharpens and makes thin and serrated the teeth, or the canine teeth, and her who orders one to do this, or who asks for it to be done ]. (S, TA.) An old woman does this in order to make herself like the young. (TA.)

مُؤَشَّرُ العَضُدَيْنِ ذ , applied to the beetle, [meaning, Having the fore-shanks formed thin, and serrated; ] as also without ء. (K.)

مِيشَار ذ , without ء, A saw; a dial. form of مِئْشَارٌ. (S, * K.)

مُوتَشِرَةٌ ذ A woman who orders one to sharpen teeth and to make them thin [ and serrated ]: (L:) or who asks for this to be done; as also ↓ مُسْتَوْشِرَةٌ: (K:) if with ء, it is from أَشْرٌ, not وَشْرٌ; and if without ء, accord. to the regular way it should be مُتَّشِرَةٌ. (K.)

مُسْتَوْشرَةٌ ذ : see مُوتَشِرَةٌ.

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2 وصّصت ذ , (AZ, TA,) or ↓ وَصْوَصَتْ, (M,) She (a girl, M,) put on, or wore, her نِقَاب [a kind of fare-veil ], (AZ, TA,) or her قِنَاع [a kind of head-covering ], (M,) in such a manner that nothing was seen but her eyes: (AZ, M, TA:) تَوْصِيصٌ and تَرْصِيصٌ signify the same: (AZ, S, CK:) the former is of the dial. of Temeem: (AZ, TA:) or both the above verbs signify she (a woman) contracted her نقاب (K, TA) so that it shewed nothing but her eyes: (TA:) or وصوصت signifies she (a woman) put her نقاب near to her eyes. (Fr. TA.)

R. Q. 1 وَصْوَصَتْ ذ : see 2, throughout. ― -b2- وَصْوَصَ He looked through a hole such as is termed وَصْوَصٌ. (K.) ― -b3- He (a whelp) opened his eyes. (K.) -A2- وَصْوَصَ عَيْنَهُ He (a man) contracted his eye in order to obtain a sure view. (IDrd, M.)

وَصَائِصٌ ذ : see وَصْوَصٌ.

وَصْوَصٌ ذ , (S,) or ↓ وَصْوَاصٌ, (M,) or both, (K,) the latter on the authority of Lth, (TA,) A hole in a veil or the like, of the size of the eye, through which one looks. (S, M, K.) And وَصَاوِصُ, [the pl. of the former, or of either,] The narrow parts of the apertures for the eyes of a بُرْقُع [a kind of woman's face-veil ]; (M, TA;) as also وَصَائِصُ. (TA.)

وَصْوَاصٌ ذ : see وَصْوَصٌ. ― -b2- A small بُرْقُع [a kind of face-veil ]: (S, M:) pl وَصَاوِصُ (S,) signifying small بَرَاقِع worn by a girl. (K.) ― -b3- بُرْقُعٌ وَصْوَاصٌ A بُرْقُع that is contracted [ so as to show nothing but the eyes ]. (M, TA.)

1 وَصِئَ ذ , as also صَئِئَ, (mentioned by Lb, TA,) It (a garment) was, or became, dirty. (K.)