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, [second pers. كَزُزْتَ,] (K,) aor. , (MS, TA,) inf. n. كَزَازَةٌ (S, A, K) and كُزُوزَةٌ, (A, K,) It dried, or dried up; or became stiff, rigid, or tough; and contracted. (S, A, K.) You say, كَزَّتْ يَدُهُ His hand became dry, or stiff, rigid, or tough, and contracted. (A.) ― -b2- [Hence,] كَزَّتْ خُطَاهُ (tropical:) His steps were [contracted, or] near together. (A, K.) ― -b3- [Hence also,] كَزَّتْ نَفْسُهُ and ↓ اكتزّت (tropical:) [His soul became contracted; meaning, he became niggardly]. (A.) And الرَّجُلُ ↓ اكتزّ (tropical:) The man shrank [from giving]. (K, * TA.) You say, فُلَانٌ لَا يَهْتَزُّ وَلٰكِنَّهُ يَكْتَزُّ (tropical:) [Such a one does not rejoice, or is not active, or prompt, and brisk, or cheerfully excited, to give, but he shrinks from giving]. (A, TA.) [كَزَزٌ (q. v. infra) seems to be an inf. n. of which the verb is كَزَّ, second pers. كَزِزْتَ, aor. , in the sense of ↓ اكتزّ as explained above.] ― -b4- كُزَّ He (a man) shrank, or became contracted, in consequence of the cold: (S:) or he became affected by what is termed كُزَاز: (A, K:) or he became affected by a rheum. (TA.) -A2- كَزَّهُ البَرْدُ and الدَّآءُ [The cold, and disease, made him to shrink, or become contracted, and to be affected with a tremour]. (A.) ― -b2- كَزَّ الشَّىْءَ, (S, K,) aor. , inf. n. كَزٌّ, (TA,) He made the thing narrow, or strait. (S, K.) ― -b3- كَزَّتِ المَرْأَةُ دُمْلُجَهَا, (A, TA,) aor. , (TA,) (tropical:) The woman filled her armlet with her arm. (A, TA.)

God smote him, or afflicted him, with what is termed كُزَاز. (K.)

see 1, in three places.

Dry, or dried up; or stiff, rigid, or tough; and contracted: (A, K:) pl. كُزٌّ. (K.) You say, يَدٌ كَزَّةٌ A dry, or stiff, rigid, or tough, and contracted, hand. (A.) And خَشَبَةٌ كَزَّةٌ A stiff, rigid, or tough, (TA,) or hard, (A,) and crooked, piece of wood. (A, TA.) And قَنَاةٌ كَزَّةٌ A hard and crooked spear or spear-shaft. (TA.) And قَوْسٌ كَزَّةٌ A stiff, rigid, or tough, bow: (S, A, K:) or a bow whereof the arrow does not go far, by reason of the narrowness of the former: (TA:) Aboo-Ziyád says, that the bow thus called is the smallest of bows: (AHn, TA:) pl. قِسِىٌّ كُزَّاتٌ. (A.) And بَكْرَةٌ كَزَّةٌ A narrow pulley-sheave, that makes a loud creaking (S, K) by reason of its narrowness. (TA.) And ذَهَبٌ كَزٌّ Tough gold: (A:) or very hard gold. (K.) And جَمَلٌ كَزٌّ A hardy, strong camel. (TA.) ― -b2- رَجُلٌ كَزٌّ, (S, A,) and كَزٌّ اليَدَيْنِ, (S, A, K,) (tropical:) A niggardly man. (S, A, K,) of little beneficence, (TA,) and of little compliance: (A, TA:) pl. كُزٌّ. (S.) ― -b3- وَجْهٌ كَزٌّ (assumed tropical:) A foul, or an ugly, face. (K.)

Hardness and crookedness in a piece of wood, or in a spear or spear-shaft. (TA.) ― -b2- (tropical:) Niggardliness, (K,) and littleness of compliance and of beneficence. (TA.) See 1.

(S, A, K) and ↓ كُزَّازٌ, (IAar, A, K,) or, accord. to Az, the latter is the correct form, and the former is vulgar, (A,) A contraction and tremour arising from cold: (A:) or a tremour arising from intense cold: (IAar, K:) or a certain disease arising from intense cold; (S, K;) being a spasmodic contraction so occasioned: or, accord. to the physicians, arising from the egress of much blood: (TA:) or a certain disease arising from cold, in consequence of which the patient trembles until he dies. (A.)

: see كُزَازٌ.

Made narrow, or strait. (S.) ― -b2- A man affected by what is termed كُزَاز: (S, A, K:) or affected by a rheum. (TA.)