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1 غَزَلَتِ القُطْنَ ذ , (S, MA, O, K,) and الكَتَّانَ وَغَيْرَهُمَا, (TA,) or الصُّوفَ وَنَحْوَهُ, (Msb,) aor. غَزِلَ (S, O, Msb, K,) inf. n. غَزْلٌ, (S, MA, O, KL,) She spun the cotton, (MA, KL, PS,) and the flax, &c., (TA,) or the wool, and the like; (Msb;) and ↓ اغتزلتهُ signifies the same. (S, K.) -A2- غَزِلَ, (S, O, K, TA,) aor. غَزَلَ , (K, TA,) inf. n. غَزَلٌ, (S, O, TA,) He talked, and acted in an amatory and enticing manner, with a woman, or with women; he practised غَزَل [meaning as expl. below, i. e. the talk, and actions, and circumstances, occurring between the lover and the object of love; &c.]. (S, * O, * K, * TA.) -A3- And غَزِلَ is also said of a dog, meaning He flagged, or became remiss, in the pursuit of a young gazelle; i. e., when he had come up to it, the latter uttered a cry by reason of its fright, whereupon he turned away from it, (S, O, K, TA,) and became diverted; (S, O, TA;) or, as IAar says, when it became sensible of the presence of the dog, it became confounded, or perplexed, and clave to the ground, and he (the dog) became diverted from it, and turned away: (TA:) or he was confounded, or perplexed, in pursuing a young gazelle, by its uttering a cry in his face when he came up to it. (Meyd in explanation of a prov.: see أَغْزَلُ, below.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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