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قِشْرٌ ذ The covering of a thing, whether natural or accidental; (M, K;) i. e., of anything; (M;) [the exterior part, peel, rind, bark, coat, crust, integument, skin, or covering, of a branch, plant, fruit, or the like; a coat such as one of those of an onion or other bulbous root, as is shown in the K, voce مُصَّاخٌ; a case, husk, shale, shard, or shell, such as covers a seed or seeds or an egg; a crust, a scab, a substance consisting of scales or laminæ and any similar thing, that peels off from the skin &c.; the skin of fruits &c.;] of a branch [and the like], the part which is like the skin of a human being; and hence the قِشْر of a melon and the like: (Msb:) pl. قُشُورٌ. (S, M, Msb, K.) ↓ قِشْرَةٌ is a more particular term [signifying A piece, or particle, of peel, rind, bark, &c.]: (S:) and likewise signifies the skin of a هَبْرَة [or piece of flesh-meat] which remains when its liquor has been sucked; as also ↓ قُشْرَةٌ . (M.) ↓ قُشَارٌ also signifies the same as قِشْرٌ: and likewise the skin [or slough] of a serpent. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] قِتْرٌ also signifies (tropical:) The dress, or apparel, of a man; (S;) any dress, or apparel: (M, K:) and a garment; (TA;) as also ↓ قِشْرَةٌ : (M, TA:) and the pl. is قُشُورٌ. (M, K.) You say, عَلَيْهِ قِشْرٌ حَسَنٌ (tropical:) [Upon him is goodly apparel]. And خَرَجَ بَيْنَ قِشْرَتَيْنِ نَظِيفَتَيْنِ (tropical:) He went forth in two clean garments. (TA.) And in a trad. of Keyleh it is said, كُنْتُ إِِذَا رَأَيْتُ رَجُلًا ذَا رُوَآءٍ وَذَا قِشْرٍ طَمَحَ بَصَرِى إِِلَيْهِ (tropical:) [I used, when I saw a man of goodly aspect, and of apparel, to raise my eyes towards him]. (S.) ― -b3- [Hence, also,] ↓ قُشَارٌ signifies (assumed tropical:) The refuse, or lowest or basest or meanest sort, of mankind, or of people. (IAar, in TA, arts. بشر and خشر.) See also قُشَارَهٌ. ― -b4- And see قُشْرٌ.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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