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شِصَارٌ ذ The small sharp-pointed piece of wood, or prickle, (K,) or the small sharp-pointed pieces of wood, or prickles, (IDrd, S,) with which the operation termed تَزْنِيدٌ [which is that described above in the explanation of شَصَرَ النَّاقَةَ] is performed; (IDrd, S, K;) as also ↓ شِصْرٌ : (K:) or ↓ شِصْرَانِ , or شِصَارَانِ, is a term applied to two pieces of wood, which are thrust through the edge of the rectum of a she-camel, and then bound with a strong string of the fibres of the palm-tree, behind them: this is done when they desire to make a she-camel affect the young one of another: they take a stuffed دُرْجَة [q. v.], and insert it into her rectum, and transfix the rectum with two sharp-pointed pieces of wood, which they bind as above described: this operation is termed ↓ شَصْرٌ and تَزْنِيدٌ. (ISh.) [See also 1.] ― -b2- Accord. to the T, A piece of wood, which is bound between the two edges of a she-camel's vulva. (TA.) ― -b3- And A piece of wood, which is inserted between the nostrils of a she camel. (K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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