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خِشَاشٌ ذ The wooden thing that is inserted in the bone of the nose of the camel, (S, A, K,) to which the nose-rein is tied, in order that he may be quickly submissive: (TA:) the بُرَة is of brass, (S, TA,) or of silver; (TA;) and the خِزَامَة is of hair: (S:) or the thing that is put in the nose; and the برة is the thing that is put in the flesh: (Lh:) or what is in the bone, when it is wood, or a stick; and the عِرَان is what is in the flesh, above the nose: (As:) a wooden thing, or stick, that is put in the bone of the nose of the camel: (Msb:) n. un. with ة: (S, Msb:) pl. أَخِشَّةٌ. (A, Msb.) [Hence the saying,] جَعَلَ الخِشَاشَ فِى أَنْفِهِ وَقَادَهُ إِِلَى الطَّاعَةِ بِعُنْفِهِ (tropical:) [He put the خشاش in his nose, and drew him to obedience by his violence]. (A, TA.) [And hence, also,] it signifies غَضَبٌ, (IAar, K,) as used in the saying, حَرَّكَ خِشَاشَهُ, [lit., He put in motion his خِشَاش: meaning, (assumed tropical:) he roused, or excited, his anger; or] he made him angry. (IAar.) -A2- الخِشَاشُ, and ↓ الخَشَاشُ , (S, K,) the latter form being sometimes used, (S,) which indicates that the former is the more chaste, but, accord. to MF, several authorities say the contrary, (TA,) and ↓ الخُشَاشُ , (K,) or الأَرْضِ ↓ خَشَاشُ , (A 'Obeyd, Msb,) and خِشَاشُ الأَرْضِ, (Msb,) The creeping things of the earth: n. un. with ة, which is syn. with الحَشَرَةُ and الهَامَّةُ: (Msb:) the حَشَرَات (A' Obeyd, S, K) of the earth, (A' Obeyd, K,) and its هَوَامّ, and [other] creeping things, (A 'Obeyd,) such as sparrows and the like: (A 'Obeyd, K: *) or خِشَاشُ الأَرْضِ, and الطَّيْرِ, signify the small ones of beasts or creeping things [of the earth], and of birds: (A:) IAar is related to have said that it is ↓ خِشْخَاشٌ , contr. to what is said by the lexicologists in general: and these things are said to have their appellation from their entering into the earth and concealing themselves; but this assertion is not valid: (ISd:) in a trad., for من خشاش الارض, one relation substitutes ↓ مِنْ خَشِيشِهَا , which has the same meaning: and some say that it is ↓ خُشَيْش , a contracted dim. of خشاش; or ↓ خُشَيِّش , without contraction: (TA:) and ↓ الخَشَاشُ signifies the bad [meaning ignoble] kinds of birds; this being with fet-h only: (As:) or birds that do not prey: (IAar, TA voce عُقَابٌ:) خِشَاشٌ, with kesr, also signifies the serpent of the mountain; which does not suffer one to survive; and the أَفْعَى is the serpent of the plain; (El-Fak'asee, K;) which like wise does not suffer one to survive: (K:) or a great and abominable ثُعْبَان: or a serpent like the أَرْقَم, but smaller: or a small, tawny serpent, smaller than the ارقم: (TA:) or a white serpent, which seldom hurts, between the حُفَّاث and the ارقم: (Aboo-Kheyreh:) or such as is light, or active, and small in the head, of serpents: explained also as signifying the serpent, without restriction: (TA:) and, (K,) or as some say, (TA,) such as has no power of defence, [مَا لَا دِفَاعَ لَهُ, as in the CK and a MS copy of the K, for which we find in some copies of the K, and in the TA, ما لا دِمَاغَ لَهُ such as has no brains, which is doubtless a mistake,] of beasts or creeping things of the earth, and of birds, (K,) such as the ostrich, and the [bustard called] حُبَارَى, and the كَرَوَان [or stonecurlew], and [the bird called] مُلَاعِبُ ظِلِّهِ, and the [harmless kinds of] serpent: (TA:) or what is small in the head, and slender, of beasts or creeping things: and the kite; and [the bird called] مُلَاعِبُ ظِلِّهِ: (Aboo-Muslim:) the pl. is خشّآء [app. خُشَّآءُ, originally خُشَشَآءُ, unless a mistake for أَخِشَّآءُ, originally أَخْشِشَآءُ]. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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