clutch, adhere to

: see art. رمق.

: see ثقّب.

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- الإِمْسَاك, in relation to تَحْجِيل: see an unusual application of it in art. طلق, conj. 4.

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

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- إِنَّهُ لَذُو تَمَاسُكٍ (assumed tropical:) Verily he possesses intelligence. (TA.) And مَابِهِ تَمَاسُكٌ (tropical:) There is no good in him. (TA.) See مُسْكَةٌ.

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

[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.

[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.)

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.)

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.)

: see art. سكن.

or مَسَاكٌ A kind of needles: see مِدَادٌ.