حَسَكٌ
Various species of thistle, and other prickly plants
[is applied, app. in the classical language, as it is in the present day, to Various species of thistle, and other prickly plants: also to the heads of thistles and the like: and particularly to the caltrop, or tribulus: and hence the explanations here following:] the حَسَك [or prickly heads] of the [plant called] سَعْدَان: (S:) or a certain herb, (Aboo-Ziyád, Mgh, TA,) inclining to yellowness, (Aboo-Ziyád, TA,) having [a head of] prickles of rounded form: (Aboo-Ziyád, Mgh, TA:) seldom, or never, does any one walk upon it, when it has dried up, without putting upon his feet boots or sandals: and the ants transport its produce [or heads] to their nests: (Aboo-Ziyád, TA:) a certain plant, the produce [or head] whereof (which is rough [or prickly], TA) clings to the wool of sheep, (K,) and to the fur of camels, in their places of pasturing: (TA:) its leaves are like those of purslane (الرِّجْلَة), or narrower, and at its leaves are compact and hard prickles, having three forks: [hence it seems to be a species of three-horned caltrop: or for “ three, ” we should perhaps read four: (see another application of the word in what follows:)] the drinking [of an infusion] thereof has the effect of crumbling the stone of the kidneys and bladder; and the drinking of the expressed juice of its leaves is good for the venereal faculty, and for difficulty in the discharge of urine, and for the bite of vipers; and the sprinkling it in the dwelling kills fleas: (K:) also, accord. to Aboo-Nasr, the produce of the [plant called] نَفَل: (TA:) and sharp. hard prickles or thorns: (TA in art. مسك:) n. un. with ة: (S, Mgh:) which some hold to apply to any fruit, or produce, of a plant, that is of the kind termed عُقْدَةٌ [i. e. forming a compact and roundish head]; and hence, to the pod of the cotton-plant: and it also signifies a prickle, or thorn. (TA.) [Hence,] ↓ إِنَّهُ لَحَسَكَةٌ (tropical:) Verily he is rough. (A, TA.) And إِنَّهُمْ لَحَسَكٌ أَمْرَاسٌ (assumed tropical:) Verily they are strong: and of one person you say مَرِسٌ ↓ حَسَكَةٌ. (TA.) And مَسَكَةٌ ↓ هُوَ حَسَكَةٌ (tropical:) He is courageous: (K and TA in art. مسك:) and of a number of persons you say حَسَكٌ مَسَكٌ. (TA in that art., q. v.) [See also حَسِكٌ.] ― -b2- See also حَسِيكَةٌ ― -b3- Also [(assumed tropical:) Caltrops, as meaning] a kind of instrument used in war, (S, K,) made like the حَسَك mentioned in the first sentence of this paragraph, (S,) or like the prickles of the حَسَك, (K,) of iron, (S, K,) or of canes, (K,) and sometimes of wood, (TA,) and cast, (K,) or set up, (TA,) around the army, (K, TA,) in the ways of the horses. (TA.) ― -b4- And (tropical:) Rancour, malevolence, malice, or spite; and enmity; (K, TA;) as also ↓ حَسَكَةٌ, (K,) and ↓ حَسِيكَةٌ and ↓ حُسَاكَةٌ. (S, K. [The last in the CK written حَساكَة; but expressly said in the TA to be with damm, and so written in copies of the S and K.]) You say, ↓ فِى صَدْرِهِ عَلَىَّ حَسِيكَةٌ and ↓ حُسَاكَةٌ [In his bosom is rancour, &c., against me]. (S.)