فلز
فِلِزٌّ (
Lth,
IDrd,
S,
A,
O,
K, &c.) and فِلَزٌّ and فُلُزٌّ, (Ibn-'Abbád,
O,
K,) the first of which is what is commonly known, (
TA,) White copper (نُحَاس أَبْيَض [
app. a sort of bronze in which the relative quantity of the tin is unusually large] whereof are made cast cooking-pots (
Lth,
O,
K,
TA) of large size, and mortars in which substances are pounded: (
TA:) or the metals; gold and silver and copper and the like: (
A'Obeyd,
A,
O,
K: *) or the substance [i. e. recrement] that is removed [or blown away] by the blacksmith's bellows from molten metals: (
S,
O,
K:) or the dross, or recrement, of iron, (
O,
K,) that is removed [or blown away] by the blacksmith's bellows: (
O:) or stones: (
O,
K:) its primary meaning is [said to be] hardness, and ruggedness. (
IDrd, O.) الفِلِزَّاتُ [
pl. of الفِلِزُّ (not to be mistaken for الفِلَذَاتُ)] signifies The seven metals; namely, gold, silver, copper, iron, lead, tin [thus I here render الأُسْرُبّ], and tutenag [thus I render الخَارصِينِى, following De Sacy and others]. (
Kzw.)
b2: And hence, as being likened to the فلزّ above described, (
TA,) (
tropical:) A strong, hard, and thick, or coarse, man. (
K, *
TA.) And (
tropical:) A niggard: (Ibn-'Abbád,
O,
K,
TA:) as though he were hard iron, upon which nothing would make any impression. (
TA.)
b3: And A thing upon which swords are tested by striking it therewith. (Ibn-'Abbád,
O,
K.)
