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أَحْوَذِىٌّ ذ Quick in journeying, or in pace; one who goes a journey of ten nights in three. (L.) And hence, (tropical:) Quick in everything that he undertakes: quick, sharp, and active in affairs: (L:) active and skilful: (K:) active in a thing by reason of his skilfulness: (AA, S, L:) applied [as meaning active by reason of expertness] to the wing of a bird of the kind called قَطًا, by a poet. (S, L,) namely, Homeyd Ibn-Thowr: (S:) quick in his affairs, who prosecutes them, or carries them on, well: (L:) one who prosecutes, or carries on, affairs in the best manner, by reason of his knowledge thereof: (A:) one who manages things skilfully, well, or thoroughly: (Msb:) ready, or prompt, in affairs, who masters them, and to whom nothing is out of his way, or sphere, or compass; (As, S, L, K;) as also ↓ حَوِيذٌ : (L, * K:) one who overcomes, or masters. (L.) And أَحْوَزِىٌّ signifies the same. (S and K &c. in art. حوز.) ― -b2- It is applied by a poet to thick water (مَآءٌ مِنَ الطَّثْرَةِ) as meaning (assumed tropical:) Quick in moving the bowels. (S, L.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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