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أَخْوَصُ ذ A man (S, Mgh) having the eye sunk, or depressed; (S, Mgh, K;) having the quality of the eye termed خَوَصٌ: [see 1:] fem. خَوْصَآءُ: (TA:) which is [also] applied to the eye, meaning sunk, or depressed: (Mgh:) or small, and sunk, or depressed: (A:) and to a ewe, meaning having one of her eyes black, and the other white: (AZ, K:) or having one eye black, and the other, with the rest of the body, white: (TA:) pl. خُوصٌ, which, prefixed to العُيُون, is applied to camels. (A.) ― -b2- [Hence,] بِئْرٌ خَوْصَآءُ (tropical:) A deep well; a well of which the bottom is deep; (A, K, TA;) of which the beasts see not the water: (TA:) because one contracts his eyelids (يَتَخَاوَصُ) in looking into it: (A, TA:) or خوصاء applied to a well (رَكِيَّة), signifies of which the water has sunk into the earth. (TA.) And the same epithet applied to a [mountain of the kind called] هَضْبَة, (A,) or قَارَة, (K,) (tropical:) High; lofty: (A, K:) because one contracts his eyelids in looking at it. (A, TA.) And رِيحٌ خَوْصَآءُ (tropical:) A hot wind: (K:) or a vehemently-hot wind: (A:) that makes the eye to blink, or contract the eyelids, (تَكْسِرُهَا,) by reason of heat: (K, * TA:) in which one does not see without blinking, or contracting the eyelids. (A.) And ظَهِيرَةٌ خَوْصَآءُ (tropical:) A summer mid-day vehemently hot: (A:) or most vehemently hot; (K, TA;) in which one cannot look without blinking, or contracting the eyelids. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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