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2 زَحَّرَ see 1. -A2- زحّر النَّاقَةَ, inf. n. تَزْحِيرٌ, He put a ball (كُرَة) into a nose-bag (مِخْلَاة), and inserted it into the vulva of the she-camel whose young one had died during the period between the time [that should have been that] of bringing him forth and a month of the last part thereof, [i. e. during the last month of her proper period of gestation,] and left it for a night, having stopped up her nose, then drew forth the ball, having prepared another young camel, which he then showed to her, the nose being still stopped up, whereupon she thought that it was her young one, and that she had at that time brought it forth, then he unstopped her nose, and brought it near, and she affected it, and yielded her milk. (K, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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