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1 حَاصَهُ حاص حاصه حاصة , (A, TA,) aor. يَحُوصُ, (A, K,) inf. n. حَوْصٌ (S, A, Mgh, K) and حِيَاصَةٌ, (A, TA,) He sewed it, or sewed it up or together; (S, * A, Mgh, * K, TA;) namely, a garment, or piece of cloth: (A, TA:) or he sewed it with stitches far apart: (IB, TA:) or he sewed it without a patch; and only said of a skin, or of skin, and of a camel's foot. (TA.) Hence the prov., إِِنَّ دَوَآءَ الشَّقِّ أَنْ تَحُوصَهُ [Verily the remedy for the rent is that thou sew it up]. (A, K.) [And hence the saying,] لَأَطْعَنَنَّ فِى حَوْصِهِمْ (S, A) (tropical:) I will assuredly mar what they have repaired: (A:) or I will assuredly make a hole in what they have sewed up, and I will assuredly mar what they have repaired. (S, IB.) Or لَأَطْعَنَنَّ فِى حَوْصِكَ (tropical:) I will assuredly circumvent thee, (لَأَكِيدَنَّكَ [so in copies of the K, and in the TA, but in the CK, erroneously, لَاكْبِدَنَّكَ,]) and I will assuredly labour for thy destruction. (AZ, K.) And it is said in a prov., طَعَنَ فِى حَوْصِ أَمْرٍ لَيْسَ مِنْهُ فِى شَىْءٍ, (K,) and أَمْرٍ ↓ حُوصِ , and أَمْرٍ ↓ حُوصَى , (Yoo, K,) (tropical:) He laboured at that which he could not do well, and tasked himself to do that with which he had no concern. (ISh, K.) Or طَعَنْتَ فِى حَوْصِ أَمْرٍ لَسْتَ مِنْهُ فِى شَىْءٍ (tropical:) Thou hast spoken of a thing with which thou hast no concern. (A.) You say also, قَبْلَ أَنْ أَدْخُلَ حَوْصِ النَّاسِ أَطْمَعُ فِى ضَرْبِهِمْ (tropical:) Before I penetrate into the case of the people, and test them, I am ambitious of smiting them. (A.) And مَا طَعَنْتَ فِى حَوْصِهِ (tropical:) Thou hast not attained the object of thy desire [with respect to him or it: or perhaps the right reading is حَوْصِكَ, in which case the addition which I have made should be omitted]. (IB, as quoted in the L and TA.) ― -b2- حُصْتُ عَيْنَ البَازِى, (S,) or عَيْنَ الصَّقْرِ, (A,) aor. as above, and inf. n. of both the forms mentioned above, (S,) [He seeled the falcon, or hawk; closed its eyes by running a thread through their lids.] ― -b3- حَاصَ سِقَآءَهُ He closed a rent in his skin for water or milk by inserting into it two pieces of stick or wood; not having a سِرَاد with which to sew it. (TA.) ― -b4- حَوْصٌ also signifies The making a coarctation between two things; (S, K;) and so حِيَاصَةٌ. (K.) You say حَاصَ بَيْنَهُمَا [He contracted the space between them; meaning two things]. (TK.) -A2- حَوِصَتْ عَيْنُهُ, (A, Msb,) aor. تَحْوَصُ, inf. n. حَوَصٌ, (Msb,) His eye was, or became, narrow, or contracted, in its outer angle. (A, Msb.) [But see حَوَصٌ below.] And حَوِصَ, (S, K,) aor. حَوَصٌ, (TA,) said of a man, (S,) he had, in his eye, or eyes, what is termed حَوَصٌ [as explained below]. (S, K.) [See also خَوِصَتْ عَيْنُهُ.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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