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حُصَاصٌ حصاص Mange, or scab: (Ibn-' Abbád, K:) because the hair falls off in consequence of it. (TA.) -A2- Vehemence of running, (As, S, Mgh, K,) of an ass, (Mgh,) and quickness thereof: (As, S:) [see 1, last sentence but one:] or, accord. to 'Ásim Ibn-Abi-n-Nujood, (S,) an ass's straightening and erecting the ears, and moving about, or wagging, the tail, and running: (S, K:) accord. to some, (S,) an emission of wind from the anus, with a sound; (S, Mgh, K;) as A'Obeyd says, in relation to a trad. in which that which it signifies is attributed to the devil as the effect of his hearing the call to prayer; but he adds that the saying of 'Ásim is more pleasing to him; and it is also the saying of As, or like it. (S.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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