ر س س

أَرْسَ3َ see above.

رَسٌّ The beginning, or commencement, of a thing. (K.) And hence, (K,) رَسُّ الحُمَّى , and ↓ رَسِيسُهَا , The beginning, or commencement, (M, A, K,) or first touch, (S,) of fever, (S, M, A, K,) before it becomes vehement, or severe; (A;) i. e., when the person attacked thereby stretches on account of it, and becomes languid in his body, and relaxed, or heavy, sluggish, or torpid, or confused in his intellect: (M, TA:) or the first that a man feels of the touch of fever, before it takes him forcibly, and becomes apparent. (As, TA.) Accord. to Fr, you say, أَخَذَتْهُ الحُمَّى بِرَسٍّ , meaning, The fever became settled in his bones. (TA.) [Hence also,] رَسُّ الحُبِّ , and ↓ رَسِيسُهُ , The beginning, or commencement, of love: (K:) or a remain, or relic, or trace, of love: (M:) or الهَوَى ↓ رَسِيسُ signifies the first, or original, feeling ( أَصْل ) of love. (Aboo-Málik, TA.) [Hence also,] بَلَغَنِى رَسٌّ مِنْ خَبَرٍ The first of news reached me: (TA:) or somewhat of news reached me: (S, M:) [or news not true reached me: for,] accord. to AZ, you say, أَتَانَا رَسٌّ مِنْ خَبَرٍ , and مَنْ خَبَرٍ ↓ رَسِيسٌ , meaning, News not true came to us: (TA:) or ↓ رَسِيسٌ [alone] signifies news not true. (K.)

رَسِيسٌ : see رَسٌّ , throughout.