خَارِصٌ خارص One who computes by conjecture the quantity of the fruit upon palm-trees: pl. خُرَّاصٌ. (A, * TA.) ― -b2- (tropical:) A liar; (Msb, TA;) as also ↓ خَرَّاصٌ . (S, A, Msb, TA.) قُتِلَ الخَرَّاصُونَ, in the Kur [li. 10], (TA,) means, (tropical:) Slain be the liars; (Fr, Zj, A, Bd, TA;) i. e., cursed be they; (Bd;) who say that Mohammad is a poet, and the like thereof, conjecturing that which they know not: (Fr, TA:) or it may mean, they who only opine, and do not ascertain; and therefore act according to that which they know not. (Zj, TA.) -A2- See also خَرِصٌ.
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