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مُتَشَمِّسٌ ذ [Sitting in or] setting himself up to [or exposing himself standing to] the sun. (K.) -A2- A man who defends what is behind his back: (ISh, TA:) a man strong (ISh, K, TA) in that which sustains or supports him; syn. قَوِىٌّ شَديدُ القُومِيَّةِ: (ISh, TA:) Sgh says شَديدُ القُوَّةِ; but the former is the right reading: (TA:) and niggardly, tenacious, or avaricious, to the utmost degree. (K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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