Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ز

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2 زَجَّ3َ see 4. -A2- زَجَّجَتْ حَاجِبَهَا, (S, A,) or زجّج حَاجِبَهُ, (K, TA,) inf. n. تَزْجِيجٌ, (TA,) She, or he, made her, or his, eyebrow narrow and long: (S, K:) [or made it arched: (see 1, last sentence:) or made it narrow and long and arched: (see زَجَجٌ below:)] or clipped the redundant portions of the hair thereof: or lengthened it [in appearance] with إِِثْمِد [i. e. antimony, or ore of antimony, or a black collyrium; like as the ancient Egyptians were accustomed to do, as appears from their paintings and sculptures; and like as some of the Arab women still do; extending a black line towards the ear, and also a similar line from the outer angle of the eye]. (TA.) In the following verse of the poet Er-Rá'ee, “ إِِذَا مَا الغَانِيَاتُ خَرَجْنَ يَوْمًا
وَزَجَّجْنَ الحَوَاجِبَ وَالعُيُونَا
” [the last of these significations may be intended; so that it may be rendered, When the females content with their husbands, or with their beauty, &c., shall go forth (or went forth) one day, and shall lengthen (or lengthened) with black collyrium the eyebrows and the eyes: or] كَحَلْنَ is meant to be understood before العُيُونَا. (S.) ― -b2- Hence, from تَزْجِيحُ الحَوَاجِبِ as signifying “ the clipping of the redundant portions of the hair of the eyebrows, ” زجّج مَوْضِعَهَا, occurring in a trad., referring to a hole made in a piece of wood in which a thousand deenars and a writing had been inserted, is expl. as meaning He made even, and adjusted, the place thereof: or, accord. to IAth, it may be that the hole was in the end of the piece of wood, and so it may mean he made a زُجّ [q. v.] upon the place thereof, to hold it fast, and to preserve what was in it. (TA.)