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حُزَّةٌ حز حزه حزة : see حَزٌّ. -A2- Also A piece of flesh-meat cut off lengthwise: (S, K:) or only of liver: (K, TA:) not of a camel's hump, nor of flesh, or other thing: (TA:) or it signifies also a piece cut off of anything, such as a melon &c.: used in this sense by the people of Syria: (TA:) pl. حُزَزٌ. (Msb.) ― -b2- (tropical:) The neck: (S, Msb, K:) accord. to some: (Msb:) so termed metaphorically. (S.) So in a trad., أَخَذَ بِحُزَّتِهِ He took hold of his neck. (S, TA.) -A3- حُزَّةُ السَّرَاوِيلِ i. q. حُجْزَتُهُ: (IAar, Az, S, Msb, K:) but disallowed by As. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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