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حَوْصَلَةٌ حوصل حوصله حوصلة : see حَوْصَلٌ, in two places. ― -b2- The حَوْصَلَة of a bird (S, Msb, K) is [The stomach; the triple stomach, consisting of the crop, or craw, the second stomach, and the gizzard, or true stomach: and often, particularly, the first of these three: see جِرِّيْئَةٌ and جِرِّيَّةٌ=:] that which, to a bird, is like the مَعِدَة to a man; (K;) also called ↓ حَوْصَلَّةٌ (Msb, K) and ↓ حَوْصَلَآءُ and ↓ حَوْصَلٌ : (K:) and of an animal having a cloven hoof or a خُفّ, i. q. مَصَارِينُ [q. v.]: (Az, TA:) pl. حَوَاصِلُ. (S, TA.) ― -b3- Hence the حَوَاصِل [i. e. (assumed tropical:) Storerooms, or magazines,] of kháns: [also meaning (assumed tropical:) the cells of prisons:] of which the sing. is حَوْصَلَةٌ: not, as the vulgar say, ↓ حَاصِلٌ . (TA.) ― -b4- Also, the sing., The lower part of the belly, as far as the pubes, (K, TA,) of a man, (TA,) and of any animal: (K, TA:) or the place where the feces collect, below the navel: or the part between the navel and the pubes. (TA.) ― -b5- نَاقَةٌ ضَخْمَةُ الحَوْصَلَةِ A she-camel big in the belly. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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