Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ض

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1 ضَرَسَهُ ذ , (A, TA,) aor. ضَرِسَ , (TA,) inf. n. ضَرْسٌ, (S, A, K,) He bit it: (TA:) or he bit it vehemently with the أَضْرَاس [pl. of ضِرْسٌ, q. v.]; (S, A, K;) as also ↓ ضرّسهُ : (A:) or with the ضَرْس. (T, TA.) ― -b2- He (a beast of prey) chewed his flesh, (i. e., the flesh of his prey,) without swallowing it; (A;) as also ↓ ضرّسهُ . (A, TA.) ― -b3- He bit it (namely an arrow) to try it; to know if it were hard or weak: (S:) he marked it (namely an arrow) by biting it with his أَضْرَاس, (M, A,) or with his teeth. (Az, TA.) ― -b4- (assumed tropical:) He tried him with respect to his claims to knowledge or courage. (IAar.) ― -b5- ضَرَسَتْهُ الخُطُوبُ, inf. n. ضَرْسٌ, (tropical:) Things or affairs, or calamities, tried, or tested, him; as also ↓ ضرّستهُ . (TA.) ― -b6- ضَرَسَتْهُ الحُرُوبُ, inf. n. ضَرْسٌ, (tropical:) Wars tried, or proved, him, and rendered him expert, or strong; (TA;) as also ↓ ضرّستهُ , (S, A, K,) inf. n. تَضْرِيسٌ. (S, K.) ― -b7- ضَرَسَهُمُ الزَّمَانُ, (S, A, K,) inf. n. ضَرْسٌ, (K,) (tropical:) Fortune became severe, rigorous, afflictive, or adverse, to them; (S, A, K; *) as also ↓ ضرّسهم . (A, TA.) ― -b8- ضَرَسَ نَابُهَا (tropical:) She was evil in disposition: (TA:) and ضَرْسٌ [alone] the being evil in disposition. (IAar.) ― -b9- ضَرْسٌ also signifies (assumed tropical:) The biting of blame, or reprehension. (IAar.) ― -b10- And (tropical:) The keeping silence during a day, until the night: (O, K, TA:) as though biting one's tongue. (TA.) ― -b11- And ضَرَسَ البِئْرَ, aor. ضَرِسَ (O, K, TA) and ضَرُسَ , (TA,) inf. n. ضَرْسٌ, (O, TA,) (assumed tropical:) He cased the well with stones: (O, K, TA:) or, as some say, he closed up the interstices of its casing with stones: and in like manner one says of any building. (TA.) -A2- ضَرِسَتْ أَسْنَانُهُ, (S, K,) aor. ضَرَسَ , (K,) inf. n. ضَرَسٌ, (S,) His teeth were set on edge (كَلَّتْ) by eating or drinking what was acid, or sour. (S, A, * K.) And ضَرِسَ الرَّجُلُ The man's teeth were set on edge. (TA.) It is said in a trad. of Wahb Ibn-Munebbih, that a certain bastard, of the Children of Israel, offered an offering, and it was rejected; whereupon he said, يَا رَبِّ يَأْكُلُ أَبَوَاىَ الحَمْضَ وَأَضْرَسُ أَنَا أَنْتَ أَكْرَمُ مِنْ ذٰلِكَ [O my Lord, my two parents eat sour herbage, and are my teeth set on edge? Thou art more gracious than to suffer that]: and his offering was accepted. (O in art. حمض.) [See Jer., xxxi. 29; and Ezek., xviii. 2.] ― -b2- Also ضَرِسَ, inf. n. ضَرَسٌ, (tropical:) He was angry by reason of hunger: because hunger sharpens the أَضْرَاس. (TA.) ― -b3- And ضَرِسُوا بِالحَرْبِ (assumed tropical:) They persisted in war until they fought one another. (T, O, TA.)