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5 تحمّض حمض تحمض [app. signifies, in its primary acceptation, He (a camel) betook himself to the pasture termed حَمْض after eating for a time of that termed خُلَّة. (See also 1 and 4 and 2.) ― -b2- And hence,] (tropical:) He shifted from one thing to another thing. (TA.) ― -b3- [Hence also,] one says to a man when he comes threatening, أَنْتَ مُخْتَلَّ فَتَحَمَّضْ (tropical:) [Thou art disordered in temper, therefore sooth thyself]: (S, A:) from خُلَّةٌ and حَمْضٌ. (S.) [See also خُلِّىٌّ, in art. خل.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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