عص
عُصَصٌ and عُصُصٌ: see عُصْعُصٌ.
عُصُوصٌ: see what next follows.
عُصْعُصٌ (
S,
Mgh,
O,
Msb,
K) and عُصْعَصٌ (
O,
Msb) and عَصْعَصٌ (
IAar,
Mgh,
O,
K) and عُصَعِصٌ (
IAar,
K,
TA) and ↓ عُصَصٌ and ↓ عُصُصٌ and ↓ عُصْعُوصٌ (
IAar,
O,
K) and ↓ عُصُوصٌ (
L,
TA) The [caudal bone called the] عَجْب [
q. v.] of the tail; (
Zj in his “ Khalk el-Insán,”
S,
Mgh,
O,
Msb,
K;) which is felt by him who feels for it; (
Zj ubi suprà;) i. e., the [os coccygis, or] tail-bone; (
S;) the small bone between the two buttocks: (
Mgh:) or that of which the upper part is the عَجْب, and its lower part the ذَنَب: or the internal extremity of the spine; and the عَجْب is its external extremity: (
Az, in
L,
voce قُحْقُحٌ:) it is said to be the first part that is created, and the last that wastes away: (
S, O:) or
i. q. قُحْقُحٌ [
q. v.]: (
IAar, O
voce عُكْدَةٌ:)
pl. عَصَاعِصُ. (
Msb,
TA.)
b2: Also عُصْعُصٌ (
Mgh,
IAth) and عَصْعَصٌ (
Mgh) What is in the middle of the أَلْيَة [or tail, or fat of the tail,] of the sheep; (
Mgh;) [i. e.,] flesh-meat in the interior of that part: (
IAth,
TA:) this is what the doctors of practical law mean by this word in speaking of sales: (
Mgh:)
pl. as above. (
IAth,
TA.)
b3: Also عُصْعُصٌ (assumed
tropical:) A man (
IF, O) compact and strong in make. (
IF,
O,
K.)
b4: Also, (Ibn-'Abbád,
K,) or ضَيِّقُ العُصْعُصِ, (
O,
L,
TA,) (assumed
tropical:) A man (Ibn-'Abbád,
L,) unpropitious, or mean, or hard, (
L,
K,
TA,) having little, or no, good, or goodness. (Ibn-'Abbád,
O,
L,
K,
TA.) عَصْعَصَةٌ Pain of the عُصْعُص. (
O,
K.) عُصْعُوصٌ: see عُصْعُصٌ.
