take a vote, cast lots

in the sense of ضَرَبَ has مَقْرَعٌ for an inf. n. (Mgh, art. غمز.) ― -b2- قَرَعَ فِى مِقْرَعِهِ i. q. ضَرَبَ فِى مِضْربِهِ. (TA in art. ضرب.) ― -b3- قَرَعَ صَفَاتَهُ (tropical:) He impugned his character; blamed or censured him; spoke against him (Mgh, art. غمز.) See مَغْمَزٌ. ― -b4- قَرَعَ بَيْنَ ظُفْرِ إِبْهَامِهِ وَظُفْرِ سَبَّابَتِهِ He fillipped with the nail of his thumb and that of his forefinger. (Lth, K, * TA, art. زنجر.) ― -b5- هُوَ الفَحْلُ لَا يُقْرَعُ أَنْفُهُ: see أَنْفٌ and قدع. ― -b6- قَرَعَ أَنْفَهُ, inf. n. قَرْعٌ, (assumed tropical:) He rejected him, repelled him, or turned him back; namely a suitor in a case of marriage. (TA, in art. بضع.) See بُضْعٌ. ― -b7- إِنَّ العَصَا قُرِعَتْ لِذِى الحِلْمِ: see Freytag's Arab. Prov. i. 55; and Har, 656. ― -b8- لَا يُقْرَعُ لَهُ العَصَا: see Freytag's Arab. Prov. ii. 543, and Har, 655, in two places. ― -b9- قَرَعَهُ بِعَصَا المَلَامَةِ: see عَصًا. ― -b10- قَرَعْتُ رَأْسَهُ بِالعَصَا and بِالسَّيْفِ: see فَرَعْتُ. ― -b11- قَرَعَ ظُنْبُوبَ بَعِيرِهِ: and قَرَعَ لِأَمْرِهِ ظُنْبُوبَهُ: &c.: see art. ظنب: and قَرَعَ لِلْأَمْرِ سَاقَهُ: see سَاقٌ.

He reproached him for his crime or the like, saying to him, Thou didst so and so. (TA, voce مُثَرِّبٌ.) ― -b2- قَرَّعَ He took, got, or won, a bet, wager, or stake. (L, in TA, voce نَدَبٌ.)

: see its syn. سَاهَمَهُ.

He ordered, or commanded, them to cast, or draw, lots, or to practise sortilege, [among themselves,] for the thing (عَلَى الشَّىْءِ): (JM:) [see an ex. in the Mgh, in this art.:] or he prepared, or disposed, them, for doing so, for the thing (على الشىء): (Msb:) or he cast, or drew, lots, or practised sortilege, among them. (K.) The first explanation is generally preferable. See أَسْهَمَ بَيْنَهُمْ.

: see تَقَارَضَا.

Worms in the belly. (TA, voce شهدانج.) But see دُودُ القَرْحِ. القَرْع is not a mistake for القَرْح: حَبُّ القَرْحِ is a corruption, found in medical books: حب القرع is a name of the tape-worm, because each joint of it resembles a grain, or seed, of the gourd. (IbrD.)

Bare pieces of ground amid herbage. (TA in art. خفى, from a trad.)

[A lot used in sortilege: lots collectively: sortilege itself. Used in all these senses in the present day, and app. in the classical times.] ضَرَبَ القُرْعَةَ He shuffled, or cast, or drew, lots; performed a sortilege.

; pl. قَرْعَى: see an ex. of the pl. in a prov. cited voce اِسْتَنَّ. ― -b2- هُوَ قَرِيعُ وَحْدِهِ: see وحد.

The higher, or highest, part of the road; the part that is trodden by the passengers; [the beaten way]. (Msb.) In law books expl. as meaning أَطْرَافُ الطَّرِيقِ; opposed to its جَادَّة.

A sudden calamity. (K.) See also Bd, and Jel, in xiii. 31, and an ex. voce اِنْفَرَجَ.

: see مَغْمَزٌ.