Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ز

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زُجٌّ ذ [The pointed iron foot, or heel, or shoe, of a spear;] the iron at the lower extremity of a spear; (S, A, Msb, K;) i. e. the iron which is fixed upon the lower extremity of a spear, and with which the spear is stuck into the ground: the iron which is fixed upon its upper extremity, and with which one pierces, being called سِنَانٌ: (ISd, TA:) pl. [of mult.] زِجَاجٌ and زِجَجَةٌ (S, Msb, K) and [of pauc.] أَزْجَاجٌ and أَزِجَّةٌ, (TA,) or this last is not allowable, (S, Msb, TA,) accord. to ISk. (Msb.) Zuheyr says, “ وَمَنْ يَعْصِ أَطْرَافَ الزِّجَاجِ فَإِِنَّهُ
يُطِيعُ العَوَالِى رُكِّبَتْ كُلَّ لَهْذَمِ
” [And he who refuses to yield to the points of the iron feet of the spears shall yield to the upper extremities thereof mounted with every sharp spear-head]: ISk says, he means that he who refuses to yield to a small thing will encounter a great thing: and Khálid Ibn-Kulthoom says, they used to meet their enemies, when they desired peace, with the iron feet of their spears turned towards them; and if they refused peace, they turned their spears' heads to them, and combated them. (TA.) [By a synecdoche, the pl.] زِجَاجٌ is also used to signify Spears, altogether. (Ham p. 147.) ― -b2- Hence, as being likened to the زُجّ of the spear, (L,) (tropical:) The extremity of the elbow, (S, L, K,) which is pointed: (L:) or the part [or joint] between the lower extremity of the os humeri and the extremity of the ulna at the elbow: (T in art. ابر:) or [simply] the elbow. (A.) You say, اِتَّكَأَ عَلَى زُجَّيْهِ (tropical:) He leaned upon his elbows: and اِتَّكَؤُوا عَلَى زِجَاجِ مَرَافِقِهِمْ (tropical:) [They leaned upon the extremities of their elbows]. (A.) ― -b3- [Hence also, (tropical:) A tush, or canine tooth:] زِجَاجُ الفَحْلِ signifies (tropical:) the tushes of the stallion-camel. (A, K.) ― -b4- [Hence also a signification mentioned by Golius on the authority of Meyd, (assumed tropical:) An iron pivot (“ subscus ferrea ”) round which a mill-stone turns.] ― -b5- Also An arrow-head: (IAar, K:) pl. زِجَجَةٌ and زِجَاجٌ (K) and أَزِجَّةٌ. (TA.)