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ضَجَمٌ ذ inf. n. of ضَجِمَ [q. v.]: (MA, K: *) [as a simple subst.,] Distortion, or crookedness, (S, K,) [in an absolute sense; and particularly,] in the mouth; and in the side of the mouth; and in the lip; and in the chin; and in the neck: (K:) and in the nose; (Lth, TA;) its inclining towards one side (Lth, S, TA) of the face: (S, TA:) and in one of the shoulders: (S, TA:) and, accord. to the M, in the bill [for خط in the TA (an obvious mistranscription) I read خَطْم] of the male ostrich: and sometimes in the mouth together with the nose: (TA:) and in like manner (tropical:) in a well: and (tropical:) in a wound. (K, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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