م س ك

مَسَّكَ بِالنَّارِ : see ثقّب .

أَمْسَكَ He retained; he withheld. (Msb.) ― -b2- He maintained: he was tenacious, or niggardly. ― -b3- He, or it, held fast a thing: and arrested it. ― -b4- أَمْسَكَهُ He held, retained, detained, restrained, stayed, confined, imprisoned, or withheld, him. (K.) ― -b5- أَمْسَكَ عَنِ الأَمْرِ He held, refrained, or abstained, from the thing. (Msb.) ― -b6- أَمْسَكَهُ He grasped it, clutched it, laid hold upon it; or seized it, ( قَبَضَ عَلَيْهِ ) بِيَدِهِ with his hand: (Msb:) or he took it; or took it with his hand, ( أَخَذَهُ ,) namely, a rope, &c.: (Mgh:) or he held, or clung, to it: (TA:) [as also بِهِ ↓ تَمَسكَ ]. Also, أَمْسَكَ بِهِ signifies [the same; or] he laid hold upon, or seized, somewhat of his body, or what might detain him, as an arm or a hand, or a garment, and the like: but أَمْسَقَهُ may signify he withheld him, or restrained him, from acting according to his own free will. (Mugh, art. بِ .) ― -b7- أَمْسَكَ بَطْنَهُ [It bound, or confined, his belly (or bowels)]: said of medicine. (S, O, Msb, K; all in art. عقل .) ― -b8- الاـِمْسَاك , in relation to تَحْجِيل : see an unusual application of it in art. طلق , conj. 4.

تَمَسَّكَ see 4 and 8. ― -b2- تَمَسَّكَ بِحَبْلِهِ He held fast by his covenant: see أَعْصَمَ .

تَمَاسَكَ He withheld, or restrained, himself: (PS:) he was able, or powerful; as also تَمَالَكَ , q. v. (KL.) ― -b2- مَا تَمَاسَكَ أَنْ فَعَلَ كَذَا He could not restrain himself from doing so; syn. مَا تَمَالكَ . (S.) ― -b3- تَمَاسَكَ It held together. ― -b4- اـِنَّهُ لَذُو تَمَاسُكٍ (assumed tropical:) Verily he possesses intelligence. (TA.) And مَابِهِ تَمَاسُكٌ (tropical:) There is no good in him. (TA.) See مُسْكَةٌ .

اِمْتَسَكَ بِهِ He clutched, or griped, him, or it; i. q. بِهِ ↓ تَمَسَّكَ . (MA.)

اِسْتَمْسَكَ البَطْنُ [The belly (or bowels) became bound, or confined]. (TA in art. عقل .) ― -b2- اِسْتَمْسَكَ بِهِ [sometimes] He sought to lay hold upon it. (Bd, in ii. 257.) ― -b3- اِسْتَمْسَكَ : see an ex. voce صِرْعَةٌ .

مِسْكٌ [Musk: it is obtained from the muskdeer, moschus moschiferus; being found in the male animal, in a vesicle near the navel and prepuce.] It is masc. and fem. (IAmb, TA voce ذَكِىٌّ .)

مَسَكٌ Tortoise-shell; syn. ذَبْلٌ : (K:) bracelets made of tortoise-shell ( ذَبْلٌ ), or of عاج [ivory]: (S, Msb:) bracelets and anklets made of horn and of عاج : n. un. with مُسْكَةٌ . (K.)

مُسْكَةٌ Intelligence: (Msb:) or full intelligence, (K, TA,) and judgment; judgment and intel-ligence to which one has recourse; as also مُسْكٌ , not ↓ مَسِيكٌ , as in the K; (TA;) i. q. تَمَاسُكٌ . (Mgh.) You say, لَيْسَ لَهُ مُسْكَةٌ He has no intel-ligence. (Msb.) ― -b2- لَيْسَ بِهِ مُسْكَةٌ He has no strength. (Msb.)

مُسْكَانٌ : see art. سكن .

مِسَاكٌ or مَسَاكٌ A kind of needles: see مِدَادٌ .

مَسِيكٌ : see مُسْكَةٌ .

مَسَّاكاتٌ [in the CK, art. روض , written مُسّاكات ,] Places, in land, or in the ground, to which the rain-water flows, and which retain it. (TA.) See ضَابِطَةٌ .

مُمْسَكٌ , said of a horse, white on both fore and kind leg on the same side: see مُحَجَّلٌ .

مُتَمَاسِكٌ Compact in the limbs, (TA in art. بدن ,) or flesh. (TA in this art.)