كز
1 كَزَّ, [second Pers\. كَزُزْتَ,] (K,) aor. ـُ (MS, TA,) inf. n. كَزَازَةٌ (S, A, K) and كُزُوزَةٌ, (A, K,) It dried, or dried up; or became stiff, rigid, or tough; and contracted. (S, A, K.) You say, كَزَّتْ يَدُهُ His hand became dry, or stiff, rigid, or tough, and contracted. (A.) b2: [Hence,] كَزَّتْ خُطَاهُ (tropical:) His steps were [contracted, or] near together. (A, K.) b3: [Hence also,] كَزَّتْ نَفْسُهُ and ↓ اكتزّت (tropical:) [His soul became contracted; meaning, he became niggardly]. (A.) And الرَّجُلُ ↓ اكتزّ (tropical:) The man shrank [from giving]. (K, * TA.) You say, فُلَانٌ لَا يَهْتَزُّ وَلٰكِنَّهُ يَكْتَزُّ (tropical:) [Such a one does not rejoice, or is not active, or prompt, and brisk, or cheerfully excited, to give, but he shrinks from giving]. (A, TA.) [كَزَزٌ (q. v. infra) seems to be an inf. n. of which the verb is كَزَّ, second Pers\. كَزِزْتَ, aor. ـَ in the sense of ↓ اكتزّ as explained above.] b4: كُزَّ He (a man) shrank, or became contracted, in consequence of the cold: (S:) or he became affected by what is termed كُزَاز: (A, K:) or he became affected by a rheum. (TA.) A2: كَزَّهُ البَرْدُ and الدَّآءُ [The cold, and disease, made him to shrink, or become contracted, and to be affected with a tremour]. (A.) b2: كَزَّ الشَّىْءَ, (S, K,) aor. ـُ inf. n. كَزٌّ, (TA,) He made the thing narrow, or strait. (S, K.) b3: كَزَّتِ المَرْأَةُ دُمْلُجَهَا, (A, TA,) aor. ـُ (TA,) (tropical:) The woman filled her armlet with her arm. (A, TA.) 4 اكزّهُ اللّٰهُ God smote him, or afflicted him, with what is termed كُزَاز. (K.) 8 إِكْتَزَ3َ see 1, in three places.كَزٌّ Dry, or dried up; or stiff, rigid, or tough; and contracted: (A, K:) pl. كُزٌّ. (K.) You say, يَدٌ كَزَّةٌ A dry, or stiff, rigid, or tough, and contracted, hand. (A.) And خَشَبَةٌ كَزَّةٌ A stiff, rigid, or tough, (TA,) or hard, (A,) and crooked, piece of wood. (A, TA.) And قَنَاةٌ كَزَّةٌ A hard and crooked spear or spear-shaft. (TA.) and قَوْسٌ كَزَّةٌ A stiff, rigid, or tough, bow: (S, A, K:) or a bow whereof the arrow does not go far, by reason of the narrowness of the former: (TA:) Aboo-Ziyád says, that the bow thus called is the smallest of bows: (AHn, TA:) pl. قِسِىٌّ كُزَّاتٌ. (A.) And بَكْرَةٌ كَزَّةٌ A narrow pulley-sheave, that makes a loud creaking (S, K) by reason of its narrowness. (TA.) And ذَهَبٌ كَزٌّ Tough gold: (A:) or very hard gold. (K.) And جَمَلٌ كَزٌّ A hardy, strong camel. (TA.) b2: رَجُلٌ كَزٌّ, (S, A,) and كَزٌّ اليَدَيْنِ, (S, A, K,) (tropical:) A niggardly man. (S, A, K,) of little beneficence, (TA,) and of little compliance: (A, TA:) pl. كُزٌّ. (S.) b3: وَجْهٌ كَزٌّ (assumed tropical:) A foul, or an ugly, face. (K.) كَزَزٌ Hardness and crookedness in a piece of wood, or in a spear or spear-shaft. (TA.) b2: (tropical:) Niggardliness, (K,) and littleness of compliance and of beneficence. (TA.) See 1.
كُزَازٌ (S, A, K) and ↓ كُزَّازٌ, (IAar, A, K,) or, accord. to Az, the latter is the correct form, and the former is vulgar, (A,) A contraction and tremour arising from cold: (A:) or a tremour arising from intense cold: (IAar, K:) or a certain disease arising from intense cold; (S, K;) being a spasmodic contraction so occasioned: or, accord. to the physicians, arising from the egress of much blood: (TA:) or a certain disease arising from cold, in consequence of which the patient trembles until he dies. (A.) كُزَّازٌ: see كُزَازٌ.
مَكْزُوزٌ Made narrow, or strait. (S.) b2: A man affected by what is termed كُزَاز: (S, A, K:) or affected by a rheum. (TA.)
