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aor. , (inf. n. لَحَجٌ, S,) It (a sword, S, K, or other thing, S) stuck fast in the scabbard, (S, K,) and would not come forth; like لَصِبَ. (S.) ― -b2- لَحِجَ الخَاتَمُ فِى الإِصْبَعِ The sealring stuck fast upon his finger. (A.) ― -b3- لَحِجَ بَيْنَهُمُ الشَّرُّ Evil stuck fast between, or among, them. (TA.) ― -b4- لَحِجَ بِمَكَانٍ He clave fast to a place; kept fast, or close, to it. (TA.) ― -b5- لَحِجَ فِى الأَمْرِ He entered into an affair and became entangled in it so that he could not extricate himself. (TA.) ― -b6- لَحَجَ إِلَيْهِ, aor. , inf. n. لَحْجٌ; and ↓ التحج; He inclined to him, or it. (TA.) By the following words of Ru-beh, " أَوْ تَلْحَجُ الأَلْسُنُ مِنَّا مَلْحَجَا " is meant, Or tongues speak of us, and incline from what is good to that which is bad. (L.) [For منها, in the L, I have substituted منّا. ملحج seems to be an inf. n.] ― -b7- لَحَجَ إِلَيْهِ, [and ↓ التحج, Golius, from Ibn-Maaroof,] He had recourse to him or it for protection or concealment. (K.) ― -b8- لَحِجَ It (a thing) became strait, narrow, or confined. (TA.)

, inf. n. تَلْحِيجٌ; and عَلَيْهِ ↓ لَحْوَجَهُ, inf. n. لَحْوَجَةٌ; He rendered the news, or information, confused to him, and told him something different from that which was in his mind: (S, K:) or the phrase with the former verb signifies he told him news, or a piece of information, different * from that which was in his mind; and that with the latter verb, he rendered the news, or information, confused to him. (Az.) See 5.

, He caused him to incline to him, or it. (TA.) ― -b2- الحجهُ إِلَيْهِ, (K,) and ↓ التحجهُ, (S, K,) He constrained, compelled, or necessitated, him to have recourse to, or to do, it, (S, K.)

, and عليه ↓ لَحْوَجَهُ, He represented the affair to him not as it was in his mind. (L.) See 2.

see 1 and 4.

استلحج البَابَ [app. He found the door stuck fast]: (A:) [but I think it not improbable that the right reading is البَابُ; and the meaning, the door stuck fast].

: see 2 and 5.

: see لُجْحٌ.

A strait, narrow, or confined, place. (S, K.)

(K) and ↓ مُلْتَحَجٌ (As, S, K) A place to which one has recourse for protection or concealment; a place of refuge; an asylum. (As, S, K.) ― -b2- مَلَاحِجُ Strait, narrow, or confined, places. (S, K.) ― -b3- مَلَاحِيجُ Narrow roads in mountains. (TA.)

A confused and crooked business. (L.)

A lock that is not [or, app., that cannot be] opened. (A.)

see مَلْحَجٌ.