ع • ص • ل

, (K, TA,) aor. عَصُلَ , inf. n. عَصْلٌ, (TA,) He made the عود [or piece of wood, or branch, or the like,] crooked: -A2- and عَصِلَ, aor. عَصَلَ , [inf. n. عَصَلٌ, q. v.,] It was crooked naturally [or originally]: thus in the K: or, as in some copies, [and among them my MS. copy, and the CK,] the latter verb has this meaning: and it is added, تَعْصِيلًا ↓ فَإِنْ كَانَ اعْوِجَاجُهُ بِهِ قُلْتَ عَصَّلَ [app. meaning that this last verb signifies it became crooked of itself, i. e., by some accident of its growth]. (TA.) And عَصِلَ, aor. عَصَلَ , [inf. n. عَصَلٌ,] signifies also It was crooked, with hardness: (K, TA:) and it was crooked and strong or hard; said of the canine tooth of a camel; as is the case only when he has become advanced in age: and, said of the same, [simply,] it became strong or hard; as also ↓ أَعْصَلَ. (TA.) Also, said of a horse, He had that twisting of the tail which is signified by the term عَصَلٌ expl. below. (K, * TK.) -A3- عَصَلَ, (K, TA,) aor. عَصُلَ , inf. n. عَصْلٌ, (TK,) said of a man, and of other than man, (TA, [in the TK said of a boy,]) also signifies He urined; made water: (K, TA: [in the CK, مالَ is erroneously put for بَالَ:]) it occurs in a trad. as said of a fox that made water upon the head of an idol. (TA.)

See عَصَلَ العُودَ.

Also, inf. n. تَعْصِيلٌ, It (an arrow) twisted when shot. (TA. [But see مُعَصِّلٌ.]) Also, (AA, O,) inf. n. as above, (AA, O, K,) said of a man, (AA, O,) He was, or became, slow, dilatory, late, or backward. (AA, O, K.)

, applied to a horse, Having a twisting of the عَسِيب [of the tail, such as is termed عَصَلٌ, expl. above]: pl. عِصَالٌ, (K, * TA,) which is extr.; or, in the opinion of ISd, this is pl. of ↓ عَصِلٌ. (TA.) And Crooked, with hardness; as also ↓ عَصِلٌ; (K, TA;) both applied to anything: (TA:) pl. as above. (K, TA.) And [simply] Crooked; applied in this sense to a canine tooth; and to an arrow: pl. عُصْلٌ: (K, TA: [in the CK and in my MS. copy of the K, وَكَكِتَابٍ الأَعْوَجُ وَالسَّهْمُ المُعْوَجُّ is erroneously put for وَلِلنَّابِ الأَعْوَجِ وَالسَّهْمِ المُعْوَجِّ:]) or [the pl.] عُصْلٌ is applied in this sense to arrows: and أَعْصَلُ applied to a canine tooth signifies crooked and strong or hard; (S, O, TA;) and ↓ عَصِلٌ likewise signifies crooked and strong or hard, and old; applied to the canine tooth of a camel, because it is thus only when the camel has become advanced in age: and the former, applied to an arrow, signifies also scanty in the feathers. (TA.) Also Crooked in the shank, (S, O, K, TA,) dry, or tough, in the body: (TA:) pl. عُصْلٌ: (K:) and the sing., applied to a man, [simply,] dry, or tough, in the body; and so [the fem.] عَصْلَاءُ applied to a woman: (TA:) or this, thus applied, signifies having no flesh upon her, (K, TA,) and dry, or tough: (TA:) and [the pl.] عُصْلٌ is applied to camels as meaning lank in their bellies. (O.) Also (K, TA, in the CK “ or ”) Keeping, or clinging, to a thing, and favourably inclined to it. (K, TA.) And أَمْرٌ أَعْصَلُ (tropical:) An affair, or a case, that is hard, troublesome, or distressing. (TA.)

He grasped, or laid hold upon, his staff. (IKh, O, K.)

and العُنْصَلَاءُ: see the next preceding paragraph.

and العُنْصَلُ, and ↓ العُنْصُلَاءُ and العُنْصَلَاءُ, (S, O, K, [in the O, and a second time in the K, mentioned in art. عنصل,]) What is called (S, O, K) by the physicians (S, O) الإِسْقَالُ, (S, O, K,) pronounced with إِمَالَة [i. e. el-iskélu, notwithstanding the ق, which is generally an obstacle to امالة], and in some of the books of the physicians written with ى, [i. e. الإِسْقِيلُ,] (O,) or only known to them as thus pronounced; (TA;) [i. e. scilla, or squill; particularly the officinal squill;] i. q. البَصَلُ البَرِّىُّ; (O, K;) also called بَصَلُ الفَأْرِ; (K;) [see art. بصل;] and a vinegar is prepared from it: (S, TA:) IAar says that it is a certain plant in the deserts, of which they assert that longing pregnant women desire it and eat it, and that it is what is called البَصَلُ البَرِّىُّ: AHn says, it consists of leaves like the leek, appearing extended and lank: and in one place he says, it is a certain tree [or plant] of the plain, or soft, tracts, growing in places of water and moisture, in like manner as does the مَوْزَة [?], and it has a blossom like that of the white سَوْسَن [or lily], of which the bees eat, and make honey; and the oxen, in cases of drought, eat its leaves, which are mixed for them in the fodder: (TA:) it is good for the alopecia, and hemiplegia (الفَالِج), and sciatica; and the vinegar thereof, for chronic cough, and asthma, and the rattles; and strengthens the weak body: (K:) the pl. is عَنَاصِلُ. (S, O.) أَخَذَ فِى طَرِيقِ العُنْصُلَيْنِ (S, O) and طريق العُنْصُلِ, (S,) [He entered upon, or took to, the road of العنصلين and العنصل,] a road from El-Yemámeh to El-Basrah, is said of a man as meaning (assumed tropical:) he went astray: (S, O:) but AHát says that he asked As respecting طريق العنصلين, and he pronounced the latter word with fet-h to the ص; adding that it should not be pronounced with damm; and that the saying originated from ElFarezdak's mentioning, in his poetry, a man who went astray in this road. (O.) One says also, سَلَكَ طَرِيقَ العنصلينِ, meaning (assumed tropical:) He pursued that which was false, vain, or futile. (TA.)

, applied to an arrow, Strong, or hard. (K, * TA.)

[inf. n. of عَصِلَ, q. v.:] A twisting in the عَسِيب [or bone, or slender part, or part where the hair grows,] of the tail (S, O, K) of the horse, (K,) so that a portion of the inner side upon which is no hair appears, (S, O,) or so that it hits [the flesh of the part of the thigh that is called] his كَاذَة and [the flesh upon the socket of the hip, or the vein in the thigh, that is called] his فَايءِل. (K, TA. [In the CK, قَايءِلَهُ is erroneously put for فَايءِلَهُ.]) And Crookedness with hardness: (K:) or crookedness and strength or hardness of a canine tooth. (S, O.) -A2- Also sing. of أَعْصَالٌ signifying The intestines into which the food passes from the stomach; (As, S, O, K;) and it (the sing.) is also pronounced ↓ عِصْلٌ. (K.) And Wreathed, or twisting, and curved, sands: occurring in this sense in a trad. (TA.) And Certain trees which, when the camel eats thereof, cause him to void thin dung: (S, O:) or the trees called دِفْلَى [q. v.]: (K:) or certain trees resembling the دِفْلَى, which the camels eat, and after which they drink water every day: or, as some say, [trees of the kind called] حَمْض that grow upon, or at, the waters: (TA:) a single tree thereof is called عَصَلَةٌ. (S, O, K. [See also عَضَلَةٌ, in art. عضل.]) [Accord. to Forskål (Flora Aegypt. Arab. pp. cxiv. and 110) now applied to a species of Ocymum which he terms serpyllifolium.]

See أَعْصَلُ.

Also An arrow crooked in [the portion called] its مَتْن [q. v.]. (TA.) And شَجَرَةٌ عَصِلَةٌ A crooked tree, (S, O, TA,) that cannot be straightened by reason of its hardness. (TA.)

A stick, or staff, with a crooked, or bent, head, with which one reaches, or takes hold of, [or draws towards him,] the branches of a tree. (IDrd, O, K.) And The [kind of goff-stick called] صَوْلَجَان [q. v.]; as also ↓ مِعْصِيلٌ. (O, K.)

One who is hard upon his debtor. (O, K.)

An arrow that twists when it is shot: (S, O, K:) or, accord. to 'Alee Ibn-Hamzeh, it is correctly مُعَضِّلٌ, with the pointed ض; from عَضَّلَتْ meaning “ the egg twisted, or became difficult [to be excluded], in her inside. ” (TA.)