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حِصْرِمٌ حصرم The first of grapes, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) such as are crude and sour, (Msb,) or as long as they remain green: (K:) or grapes when hard: (Az, TA:) or, accord. to AHn, grapes when they have become organized and compacted: or, as he says on one occasion, [the n. un.] حِصْرِمَةٌ signifies a grape when it germinates. (TA.) The rubbing of the body in the bath with bruised, or pulverized, حصرم dried in the shade prevents the origination of [the cutaneous disorder termed] حَصَف in the year in which this is done, and strengthens the body, and cools it. (K.) ― -b2- Dates, or fruit, (تَمْرٌ, or ثَمَرٌ, accord. to different copies of the K, the latter being the reading in the M, TA,) not yet ripe. (M, K, TA.) ― -b3- Fruit plucked from the tree called the مَظّ, (K,) i. e. the wild pomegranate. (TA.) ― -b4- In the “ Jema et-Tefáreek, ” it is said to signify Grape-stones: but this requires consideration. (Mgh.) ― -b5- What is lean, dry, or withered, (syn. حَشَفٌ,) of anything. (AZ, Msb, K.) ― -b6- And hence, (Msb,) (assumed tropical:) A niggardly man; (ISk, S, Msb, K;) arrow in disposition; as also ↓ مُحَصْرَمٌ (S, TA) and ↓ مُتَحَصْرِمٌ : (K, * TA:) or ↓ مُحَصْرَمٌ means having little, or no, good. (TA.) ― -b7- Short; (K;) and فَاحِش [app. as meaning evil in disposition]; as also ↓ حُصْرُمٌ . (TA.) ― -b8- And An iron [hooked] instrument with which the bucket is extracted from a well; (K;) also called عَوْدَقٌ. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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