Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ط

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مُطْعِمَةٌ ذ , (S, K,) like مُحْسِنَةٌ, (K,) [i. e.] with kesr to the ع, accord. to IAar, (S,) and like مُكْرَمَةٌ, (K, [i. e. ↓ مُطْعَمَةٌ , but I think it most probable that it is correctly ↓ مِطْعَمَةٌ , like مِكْسَحَةٌ &c., as being the name of an instrument, agreeably with a remark respecting it in what follows,]) (tropical:) A bow: (S, K, TA:) called by the former appellation because it feeds its owner with the game: (IAar, S, TA:) and by the latter appellation because one takes the game by means of it, and often shoots with it. (TA.) ― -b2- And المُطْعِمَةُ, (K, TA,) or, as written by Z, with fet-h, [i. e. ↓ المُطْعَمَةُ , or, as I think more probable, ↓ المِطْعَمَةُ ,] (tropical:) The غَلْصَمَة [or epiglottis; because it is said to throw the meat and drink into the gullet]. (K, TA.) And (tropical:) [The place thereof; i. e.] the حَلْق [or fauces; or upper part of the throat]: so in the saying, أَخَذَ فُلَانٌ بِمطعمة فُلَانٍ i. e. (tropical:) Such a one seized the حَلْق of such a one, squeezing it; said only in a case of throttling and fighting. (AZ, TA.) ― -b3- And المُطْعِمَتَانٍ (tropical:) The two corresponding anterior toes of a bird; (S, K, TA;) i. e. the two talons with which the bird seizes the flesh-meat. (TA.)