ح • ر • ن

aor. حَرُنَ ; (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) and حَرُنَ; (S, Msb, K;) inf. n. حِرَانٌ (Mgh, Msb, K) and حُرُونٌ, (Mgh, Msb,) or the former is a simple subst., and the latter is the inf. n., (S,) and حُرَانٌ; (K;) said of a horse (S, Mgh, Msb, K) or similar beast, (Msb, K,) He was, or became, restive, or refractory, and, when vehemently running, stopped: (S:) or stopped, and was restive, or refractory: (Mgh:) or stopped when one desired to call into action his power of running: said peculiarly of a solid-hoofed animal: (M, K:) or, accord. to Lh, one says also حرنت النَّاقَةُ, meaning the she-camel stood still, and would not move from her place: and حِرَانٌ is used by AO in relation to a she-camel. (TA.) And حَرَنَ, inf. n. حُرُونٌ i. q. تَأَخَّرَ [He went back or backwards, drew back, receded, &c.]. (As, TA.) حَرَنَ بِالمَكَانِ, inf. n. حُرُوُنَةٌ, [perhaps a mistranscription for حُرُونٌ,] He kept, or clave, to the place, and did not quit it. (TA.) حَرَنَ فِى البَيْعِ (tropical:) He did not exceed nor fall short in selling. (S, K, TA.) -A2- حَرَنَ القُطْنَ He separated and loosened the cotton [by means of a bow and a kind of wooden mallet, by striking the string of the bow with the mallet]; syn. نَدَفَهُ. (K.)

an epithet applied to a horse (S, Mgh, Msb, K) or similar beast, (Msb, K,) [meaning Restive, or refractory, &c.,] from حَرَنَ (S, Mgh, Msb, K) or حَرُنَ: (S, Msb, K:) pl. حُرُنٌ, with two dammehs. (TA.) Also An animal of the chase that does not quit the higher, or highest, part of the mountain. (S, K.)

a subst. from حَرَنَ said of a horse [or similar beast; i. e. Restiveness, or refractoriness, &c.]: (S:) or an inf. n. (Mgh, Msb, K.)

(S, K) and ↓ مَحَارِنُ (S [in which the latter occupies the first place, the former occurring in an ex.,]) (tropical:) The bees that stick to the honey, and are extracted with the مَحَابِض, (S, K, TA,) or wooden implements with which the honey itself is extracted: (TA:) or the bees that stick in the hive, and are with difficulty extracted: or the bees that die in the honey: (T, TA:) sing. ↓ مِحْرَانٌ (K.) And The pods of cotton. (K.)

Honey: (K:) pl. مَحَارِينُ. (So in the TA, as from the K.) See also the pl. below.

The wooden implement (a kind of mallet) with which, together with a bow, by striking with the former the string of the latter, cotton is sepa rated and loosened; syn. مِنْدَفٌ. (K.)