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زَوَرٌ ذ inf. n. of زَوِرَ. (TA.) ― -b2- Inclination; (S, Msb, K;) such as is termed صَعَرٌ; (S;) crookedness; wryness; distortion. (A.) ― -b3- Distortion of the زَوْر, (Mgh, K,) which is the upper, or uppermost, part of the breast, (Mgh,) or the middle of the breast [&c.]: (TA:) or the prominence of one of its two sides above the other: (K:) in a horse, the prominence of one of the two portions of flesh in the breast, on the right and left thereof, and the depression of the other: (S:) in others than dogs, it is said by some to signify inclination [or distortion] of a thing or part which is not of a regular square form; such as the كِرْكِرَة and the لِبْدَة. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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