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2 ضَرَّجَ see above, in two places. ― -b2- One says also, ضرّج أَنْفَهَ بِدَمٍ, (S, O,) or بِالدَّمِ, (K,) He made his nose to bleed. (S, O, K.) ― -b3- And ضرّج الثَّوْبَ, (S, O, K,) inf. n. تَضْرِيجٌ, (S, O,) He dyed the garment, or piece of cloth, of a red colour, (S, O, K,) making it less fully dyed than that which is termed مُشْبَع, and more so than that which is termed مُوَرَّد. (S, O.) ― -b4- [Hence,] ضرّج الكَلَامَ, (A, K,) inf. n. as above, (O,) (tropical:) He embellished the speech, (A, O, K,) and amplified it, (A,) as one does in excuses, or pleas, (O,) with truth, or with falsehood. (A, O.) ― -b5- ضرّجت جَيْبَهَا She (a woman) loosened her جَيْب [or opening at the neck and bosom of her shift or the like, so that the edges were not drawn together, or buttoned]. (O, K: * in the latter, ضرّج الجَيْبَ, inf. n. as above.) ― -b6- ضرّجنا الإِِبِلَ We urged on the camels, in making a hostile, or predatory, incursion. (O, K. *)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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