Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ز

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أَزْوَرُ ذ Inclining; (K;) crooked; wry; distorted: (A:) [fem. زَوْرَآءُ:] pl. زُورٌ. (K.) ― -b2- Having that kind of distortion in the زَوْر (or middle of the breast [&c.] TA) which is termed زَوَرٌ. (K, TA.) ― -b3- A dog whose breast (جَوْشَنُ) صَدْرِهِ) is narrow, (K,) and the كَلْكَل [app. meaning the part between the two collar-bones] projecting, as though his, or its, sides had been squeezed. (TA.) ― -b4- A wry neck. (TA.) ― -b5- [A beast] that looks from the outer angles of his eyes (K) by reason of his vehemence and sharpness of temper: (TA: [see also زَوْرٌ:]) or a camel (TA) that goes with an inclination towards one side, when his pace is vehement, though without any distortion in his chest. (K.) [See also زِوَرٌّ. Hence, app.,] الزَّوْرَآءُ is a name of Certain camels (مَال) that belonged to Uheyhah (S, K) Ibn-El-Juláh ElAnsáree. (S.) ― -b6- زَوْرَآءُ (tropical:) A bow: (S, A, K:) because of its curving. (S.) ― -b7- (tropical:) A bent bow. (TA.) ― -b8- (tropical:) A menáreh (مَنَارَة) deviating from the perpendicular. (A.) ― -b9- (tropical:) A well (بِئْر) deep: (S, K, * TA:) or not straightly dug. (TA.) ― -b10- (tropical:) A land, (أَرْض, S, K,) and a desert, (مَفَازَة, A, or فَلَاة, TA,) far-extending, (S, A, K, TA,) and turning aside: (TA:) and أَزْوَرُ is applied [in the same sense] to a country, (TA,) and to an army. (S, TA.) ― -b11- (tropical:) A saying, or phrase, (كَلِمَة,) bad, and crooked, or distorted. (A.) -A2- Also زَوْرَآءُ [as an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates] (assumed tropical:) A [drinking-cup or bowl of the kind called] قَدَح. (S, K.) ― -b2- And (assumed tropical:) A certain vessel (K) for drinking, (TA,) oblong, like the تَلْتَلَة. (TA.) -A3- هُوَ أَزْوَرُ عَنْ مَقَامِ الذُّلِّ (A) (tropical:) He is most remote from the station, or state, of baseness, or ignominiousness. (TA.)