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حسل

8 احتسل احتسل He hunted, caught, snared, or entrapped, the [young lizards termed] حُسُول, pl. of حِسْلٌ. (O, K. *) حِسْلٌ حسل The young one of the [kind of lizard called] ضَبّ, (AZ, S, Mgh, K,) when it first comes forth from its egg: (AZ, S, K:) it is next called غَيْدَاقٌ; then, مُطَبِّخٌ; then, خُضَرِمٌ; and then, ضَبٌّ: (S and L voce مُطَبِّخٌ: [but see this word:]) pl. [of pauc.] أَحْسَالٌ (K) and [of mult.] حُسُولٌ (S, K) and حِسْلَانٌ, with kesr, and حِسَلَةٌ, (K, TA,) with kesr and then fet-h. (TA. [In the CK حَسِلَةٌ.]) [Hence,] أَبُو الحِسْلِ, (S,) or أَبُو حِسْلٍ, and ↓ أَبُو حُسَيْلٍ , (K,) The [lizard called] ضَبّ. (S, K.) [Hence also,] لَا آتِيكَ سِنَّ الحِسْلِ, i. e. I will not come to thee ever, (S, K,) until thy death: (S:) because the tooth of the حسل does not fall out: (S, K:) a prov. (S.) حُسَيْلٌ حسيل : see حِسْلٌ [of which it is the dim.].
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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