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4 أَصْمَيَ see 1, first sentence. ― -b2- اصمى عَلَى لِجَامِهِ, said of a horse, He champed his bit, (S, M, K,) and went away, or along. (S, M.) -A2- اصمى الصَّيْدَ He shot the chase, or game, in such a manner that it died (S, Mgh, Msb, K) in his sight, (S, Msb,) before him, (Mgh, Msb,) quickly, (Mgh,) or on the spot: (K:) accord. to Az, he killed it by means of his dog, in his sight; but it applies also to the case of killing with an arrow: (Msb, TA:) أَنْمَى is said when the chase, or game, goes out of one's sight (Mgh, Msb) after having been [seized by the dog or] hit [by the arrow], (Mgh,) and then dies, (Mgh, Msb,) so that one knows not whether it died by his dog or his arrow or by some accident. (Msb.) It is said in a trad., كُلْ مَا أَصْمَيْتَ وَدَعْ مَا أَنْمَيْتَ [Eat thou what thou hast pursued, or shot, so that it has died in thy sight, and leave what thou hast pursued, or shot, in the case of its dying out of thy sight]. (S, Mgh, Msb.) ― -b2- And اصمى الرَّمِيَّةَ He transpierced the animal that he shot at, or shot. (M.) And اصمت القَوْسُ الرَّمِيَّةَ The bow sent its arrow through the animal shot. (TA.) ― -b3- See also 3.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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