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1 حَزَرَهُ حزر حزره حزرة , aor. حَزُرَ and حَزِرَ , inf. n. حَزْرٌ (S, M, Msb K) and مَحْزَرَةٌ, (Th, K,) He computed, or determined, its quantity, measure, size, bulk, proportion, extent, amount, sum, or number: (S, Mgh, * Msb, K:) [more commonly,] he computed by conjecture its quantity or measure &c.; syn. خَرَصَهُ, (S, K,) and قَدَّرَهُ بِالحَدْسِ; (M;) he took its quantity or measure &c. by the eye. (TK.) [He conjectured it; and so ↓ حزّرهُ , inf. n. تَحْزِيرٌ: perhaps post-classical: whence عِلْمُ التَّحْزِيرِ The science of divination.] You say, حَزَرَ النَّخْلِ He computed by conjecture the quantity of the fruit upon the palm-trees. (A, Msb.) And حَزَرْتُ قِرَاءَتَهُ عِشْرِينَ آيَةً (tropical:) I computed his recitation, or reading, to be twenty verses [of the Kur-án]. (A.) And حَزَرْتُ فُدُومَهُ يَوْمَ كَذَا (tropical:) I computed his arrival to be on such a day. (A.) And اِحْزِرْ نَفْسِكَ هَلْ تَقْدِرُ عَلَيْهِ (tropical:) Measure thyself, whether thou be able to do it. (A.) -A2- حَزَرَ, (S, M, K,) aor. حَزُرَ , inf. n. حَزْرٌ and حُزُورٌ, (M,) It (milk, S, M, K, and beverage of the kind called نَبِيذ, S, K) became sour, or acid. (S, M, K.) It is said in a prov., عَدَا القَارِصُ فَحَزَرَ [explained in art. قرص]. (A.) ― -b2- Hence, (TA,) (tropical:) It (a man's face) was, or became, [sour, i. e.] frowning, contracted, stern, austere, or morose. (K, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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