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حَظِرٌ حظر Trees with which a حَظِيرَة is made. (A, K.) ― -b2- And Fresh thorns. (K.) وَقَعَ فِى الحَظِرِ الرَّطْبِ (assumed tropical:) He fell into that to which he was not equal, (K, TA,) is a prov., originating from the fact of the Arabs' collecting fresh thorns, and making of them enclosures, into which a man sometimes falls so that he becomes caught therein. (TA.) And جَآءَ بِالحَظِرِ الرَّطْبِ (tropical:) He came with, or brought, a large number of cattle, and of men: or an odious lie: (K:) [or calumny, or slander, and falsehood:] is said of a calumniator, or slanderer, and liar, who kindles by his calumnies the fire of enmity, and makes it to burn up. (A.) And أَوْقَدَ فِى الحَظِرِ الرَّطْبِ (tropical:) He uttered calumny, or slander: (K:) or he went about with calumny, or slander, and foul conduct. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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