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حَشْرَجٌ ذ Water that is beneath the ground, unperceived, in the wide water-channels that contain small pebbles, and which, when one has dug to the depth of a cubit, gushes forth abundantly: waters of this description are called by the Arabs أَحْسَآءٌ [pl. of حِسْىٌ] and كِرَارٌ [pl. of كَرٌّ] and حَشَارِجُ: and sweet water, of the water of a حِسْى: (Az, TA:) or water that runs, clear and shallow, over pebbles, or over small pebbles: (TA:) what is termed حِسْىٌ, among pebbles: (ISk, S, K:) or what is termed حِسْىٌ, having pebbles in it: (K accord. to the TA:) or what resembles that which is termed حِسْىٌ, in which waters collect: or a small, or round, hollow, or cavity, in a mountain, in which water becomes clear, (Az, K, TA,) after collecting: (Az, TA:) or water in a small, or round, hollow, or cavity, in a mountain. (A.) ― -b2- Soft foraminous stones (كَذَّان) of the ground: n. un. with ة. (K.) ― -b3- A small, (A, TA,) or thin, (K,) and clean, (TA,) كُوز [or mug], (A, K, TA,) in which water is cooled, (A,) of the manufacture of El-Heereh. (K.) ― -b4- The cocoanut. (Kr, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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