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حَاشِيَةٌ ذ [The selvage, or selvedge, i. e.] the side, (Mgh, Msb, TA,) or each of the two sides that have no unwoven extremity, (M, TA,) or each of the two long sides that have at their two ends the unwoven threads, (T, TA,) of a garment, or piece of cloth: (S, T, M, Mgh, Msb, K:) and in like manner, of other things; (K, TA;) as, for instance, (assumed tropical:) the side of a tract of herbage, and of the mirage; and (assumed tropical:) the extremity of the مَقَام [app. meaning مَقَام إِِبْرٰهِيم in the Temple of Mekkeh]: (TA:) pl. حَوَاشٍ. (S, Mgh, Msb.) ― -b2- (assumed tropical:) The margin of a book or writing. (TA.) ― -b3- (tropical:) A writing, or writings, upon the margin [or margins] of a book: (TA:) [i. e. a marginal note, or marginal notes; an annotation, or a comment, scholium, or gloss: and hence, a series of annotations, comments, scholia, or glosses; a commentary on particular words and passages of a book; distinguished from a شَرْح, which is an exposition, explanation, or interpretation, in the form of a running commentary, comprising the entire text of the work which it expounds.] ― -b4- (assumed tropical:) An indefinite portion of property, or of cattle: (Msb:) [or a portion from the side; not selected: for, accord. to some,] the saying, خُذْ مِنْ حَوَاشِى أَمْوَالِهِمْ means (assumed tropical:) Take thou from the sides of their collections of cattle, [for the poor-rate,] without choosing [the best]: this meaning being from حَاشِيَة as used in relation to a garment, or piece of cloth, meaning the "side." (Mgh. [But see another explanation of this saying voce حَشْوٌ.]) ― -b5- حَاشِيَةٌ النَّسَبِ (assumed tropical:) The collateral relation or relations; such as the paternal uncle, and his son: as though from حاشية as meaning the “ side. ” of a garment, or piece of cloth. (Msb.) ― -b6- حَاشِيَةُ رَجُلٍ (assumed tropical:) A man's family and dependents, (K, TA,) who are under his protection. (TA.) ― -b7- See also حَاشِيَةٌ and its dual and pl. voce حَشْوٌ, in six places. ― -b8- And see حَشًى (in the present art.), last sentence but one. ― -b9- رَجُلٌ رَقِيقٌ الحَوَاشِى (assumed tropical:) A man gentle, gracious, or courteous, to his associates. (TA.) ― -b10- عَيْشٌ رَقِيقُ الحَوَاشِى (assumed tropical:) A plentiful, easy, life. (S, TA.) ― -b11- جَمْعٌ كَثِيفُ الحَوَاشِى (assumed tropical:) A congregated body crowding close together, side against side. (Har p. 294.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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