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هزم

7 اِنْهَزَمَ ذ It (an army) was routed, discomfited, defeated, or put to flight. (K, &c.) See حَاصَ, in art. حيص; and اِنْحَازَ, in art. حوز; from both of which it is distinguished. هَزْمَةٌ ذ The [purring, or] sound of the throat of a cat. (TA.) ― -b2- The pit between the two collar-bones. (TA, art. ترب.) ― -b3- [The pit above a horse's eye.] (K, voce وَقْبٌ.) See also خُنْعُبَةٌ, and قَلْتَةٌ: and see عُقْمٌ, where it seems to mean a stricture: it generally and properly signifies a depression, or dint: or a pit, or small hollow, resembling a dint: see also غَيْبٌ. مَهْزُومُ الصَّدْرِ ذ Depressed of breast, i. e., apparently, illiberal, niggardly: see حَوْضٌ.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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