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حَشٌّ ذ (S, Mgh, Msb, K) and ↓ حُشٌّ , (S, Msb, K,) but the former is the more common, (Msb,) and ↓ حِشٌّ , (K,) A garden: (El-Fárábee, S, Mgh, Msb, K: *) or a garden of palm-trees: (AHát, Msb:) pl. حِشَّانٌ (S, Msb) and حُشَّانٌ. (Msb.) ― -b2- Hence, (tropical:) A privy; (El- Fárábee, S, A, Mgh, Msb, K;) likewise called بَيْتُ الحَشِّ or ↓ الحُشِّ : (Msb:) because they used to ease themselves in the gardens: (S, Mgh, Msb, K:) then, when they made privies, they applied thus this appellation: (Msb:) and in like manner, ↓ مَحَشٌّ ; but accord. to the Abridgment of the 'Eyn., this is proper, not tropical: (Msb:) or this last, also written ↓ مِحَشٌّ , signifies the same; (TA;) or a place in which human ordure has become collected: (K:) the pl. of حشّ as applied to a privy is حُشُوشٌ (S, Mgh, K) and حُشُّونَ. (Ibn-'Abbád, K.) -A2- See also مَحَشَّةٌ.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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