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أَحَصُّ ذ [Having the hair shaven off, or rubbed off, or fallen off, either wholly or partly], applied to the head; pl. حُصٌّ: (A:) a man having little hair upon the head: (S, K:) or a man having no hair; (Mgh;) a man whose hair has all gone; fem. حَصَّآءُ, applied to a woman: (Et-Tirmidhee:) also, [a man] having no hair upon his breast: and a man suffering from a protracted disease, whose hair does not grow long: (TA:) and a horse having little hair in the fetlock, and in the tail; which is a fault; (TA;) as also ↓ حَصِيصٌ ; (K, * TA;) on the authority of IDrd: (TA:) and the fem., a she-camel having no fur upon her: and the masc., a tail having no hair upon it: and ↓ مَحْصُوصٌ applied to the back of the neck, of which the hair has been shaven off. (TA.) You say also رَجُلٌ أَحَصُّ اللِّحْيَةِ A man whose beard has become short, its hair having broken off in pieces: and لِحْيَةٌ حَصَّآءُ a beard that has become short in like manner. (TA.) And طَائِرٌ أَحَصُّ الجَنَاحِ (S, A, K) A bird having little plumage in the wing: (K:) or whose plumage of the wing has gradually fallen off and become scattered: (S, * TA:) pl. as above. (S.) ― -b2- (tropical:) A sword having in it, or upon it, no أَثْر [or diversified wavy marks, streaks, or grain]. (K, TA.) ― -b3- Applied to a man, (A,) (tropical:) Unlucky; (AZ, A, K;) unpropitious; in whom is no good: (AZ, A:) and the fem., applied to a woman, also signifies (tropical:) unlucky; (K, TA;) in whom is no good. (TA.) And hence, (A,) or because they keep pace together in their prices (يُمَاشِيَانِ أَثْمَانَهُمَا) until they grow old and weak, when their prices become diminished and they die, (S,) الأَحَصَّانِ signifies (tropical:) The slave and the ass. (S, A, K.) ― -b4- (tropical:) [A man] who cuts, or severs, the tie of relationship. (TA.) ― -b5- رَحِمٌ حَصَّآءُ: see حَاصَّةٌ. ― -b6- سَنَةٌ حَصَّآءُ (S, A, K) (tropical:) A sterile year, in which is no good: (S, K:) or a year of drought, in which is little herbage: or a year in which is no herbage. (TA.) ― -b7- يَوْمٌ أَحَصُّ (tropical:) A day intensely cold. (TA.) It was said to a man of the Arabs, “ Which of the days is the most cold? ” and he answered, الأَحَصُّ الأَزَبُّ; (TA;) the former meaning, (tropical:) The day whose sun rises (K TA) the horizon being red, (TA,) and its sky (سَمَاؤُهُ), accord. to the copies of the K, but correctly its north wind (شَمَالُهُ), (TA,) being clear, (K, TA,) and such that a touch is not felt by reason of the cold; and it is that in which there are no clouds, and of which the cold does not abate: and the latter meaning, the day in which blows the wind called النَّكْبَآء driving along clouds in which is no water, wherein no sun rises, and in which is no rain. (TA.) Z says, (TA,) it was said to one of them, “ Which of the days is the coldest? ” and he answered, الأَحَصُّ الوَرْدُ وَ الأَزَبُّ الهِلَّوْفُ, i. e., The clear, [in which the horizon is red,] and the cloudy, in which blows the wind called النَّكْبَآء. (A, TA.) ― -b8- رِيحٌ حَصَّآءُ (tropical:) A wind that is clear, without dust. (K, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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