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حَلَلٌ حلل حلة A laxness in the legs of a beast: or in the tendons, or sinews, (K,) and weakness in the نَسَا [q. v.], (TA,) with laxness of the hock: or it is peculiar to camels: (K:) and signifies a weakness in the عُرْقُوب [i. e. hock, or hock-tendon,] of a camel; (Fr, S, O;) or in each عرقوب of a camel: (M, TA:) if in the knee, it is termed طَرَقٌ. (Fr, S.) ― -b2- And Paucity of flesh in the posteriors and thighs; or smallness and closeness of the buttocks; or paucity of flesh in the thighs; syn. رَسَحٌ; (K;) in a woman. (TA.) ― -b3- And Pain in the hips, or haunches, and the knees, in a man. (K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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