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حُشَاشَةٌ ذ The [last] remains of the spirit (S, A, * Msb, K) in the heart, (TA,) [or of life;] in a sick man, (S, Msb, K,) and in one who is wounded; (K;) as also ↓ حُشَاشٌ , (S, Msb, K,) the ة being sometimes elided. (Msb.) ― -b2- And (assumed tropical:) Any remains, or relic. (TA.) You say, مَا بَقِىَ مِنَ المُرُوْءَةِ إِِلَّا حُشَاشَةٌ تَتَرَدَّدُ فِى أَحْشَآءِ مُحْتَضَرٍ (tropical:) [There remained not, of manliness, save a last relic going to and fro, or wavering, in the entrails of one at the point of death]. (A, TA.) And مَا بَقِىَ مِنَ الشَّمْسِ إِِلَّا حُشَاشَةٌ نَازِعٌ (tropical:) [There remained not, of the sun, save a last departing relic]. (A, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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