be stern, be gloomy

, aor. , (IF, A, Msb,) inf. n. هَرْسٌ, (IF, S, A, Msb, K,) He bruised, brayed, or pounded, it; crushed it so as to break it; broke it, or broke it in pieces, by beating; (S, IF, Msb, TA;) namely, grain, (Msb,) or some other thing: (IF, Msb:) or he did so vehemently, or violently: (A, K:) or with something broad: or with some preservative between it and the ground. (TA.)

Grain, (Msb,) or wheat, (A,) bruised, brayed, or pounded, (A, Msb,) vehemently, or violently, (A,) with the مَهْرَاس, before it is cooked; for when it is cooked, it is termed هَرِيسَةٌ: (Msb:) [of the measure فَعِيلٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ:] from the verb above-mentioned. (K.) You say, عِنْدِى هَرِيسٌ لِلْهَرِيسَةِ I have wheat bruised, &c., for the هَرِيسَة. (A.)

Grain, (Msb,) or wheat, (TA,) bruised, brayed, or pounded, [vehemently, or violently, (see هَرِيسٌ,)] and then cooked: (Msb, TA:) [or a kind of thick pottage, prepared of cooked wheat and cooked flesh-meats much pounded together: (Golius; app. on the authority of Ibn-Maaroof:) but this is probably one of the kinds of هريسة peculiar to post-classical times; which kinds are many: see De Sacy's Relation de l'Égypte par Abd-Allatif, pp. 307 and 312:] of the measure فَعِيلَةٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولَةٌ: (Msb:) from the verb above-mentioned: (S, K:) pl. هَرَايأِسُ. (A.)

A maker, or preparer, of هَرِيسَة: (Mgh, Msb, K:) and a seller thereof. (Mgh.)

[in the M, voce جُرْنٌ, q. v., accord. to the TA, مهرس, i. e., app. مِهْرَسٌ,] A stone hollowed out, (S, Mgh, Msb,) oblong, (Mgh, Msb,) and heavy, resembling a [vessel of the kind called] تَوْر, q. v., (Mgh,) in which one bruises, brays, or pounds, and from which one performs the ablution termed وُضُوْء; (S, Mgh, Msb;) and it is also made of brass; and grain and other things are bruised in it: (Msb:) and sometimes, by a tropical application, (tropical:) one of wood, (Mgh, Msb,) used for the same purpose: (Msb:) or a mortar; syn. هَاوُونٌ; (K;) or thing in which grain is bruised: (A, TA,) and also, (A, K,) tropically, (A,) (tropical:) a hollowed stone, (A, K,) of oblong shape, (A,) from which one performs the ablution above mentioned; (A, K;) consisting of a bulky stone, which several men cannot lift nor move because of its weight, capable of holding much water. (TA.)

A certain thorny or prickly tree, (S, K, TA,) the thorns or prickles of which are like the حَسَك, (TA,) and its fruit is like the نَبِق: n. un. with ة. (K, TA.) See قُطْبٌ.