مِذْرًى
1.
(S, M) and
مِذْرَاةٌ (M) A wooden implement, (S, M,) or a small wooden implement, (so in one copy of the S,) having [several] ex tremities [or prongs], (S,) with which one winnows (S, M) wheat, and with which the heaps of grain are cleared [from the straw &c.]: (S) or the former word signifies the thing with which the wheat is carried to be winnowed: and the latter, the wooden implement with which one winnows. (T.)
2.
Also, the former word, The extremity of the buttock: (AO, T, M, K:) or
مِذْرَوَانِ signifies the two extremities of the two buttocks; (A'Obeyd, T, S, M, K *) or the two uppermost parts of the two buttocks; (Meyd in explaining a prov. cited below;) and it has no singular; (A'Obeyd, T, S, M, Meyd, K;) for if the singular were مِذْرًى, the dual would be مِذْرَيَانِ. (A'Obeyd, T, S, M, Meyd.) Hence, (Meyd,)
جَاءَ يَنْفُضُ مِذْرَوَيْهِ [He came shaking the two extremities, or the two uppermost parts, of his buttocks]; (S, Meyd, K;) a prov., applied to one behaving insolently (بَاغٍ), and threatening; (S, K; *) or to one threatening vainly: (Meyd, and Har p. 603:) and
جَاءَ يَضْرِبُ مِذْرَوَيْهِ [He came striking. &c.]; a prov. also, applied to him who has come empty, not having accomplished that which he sought. (Har ubi suprà.)
3.
مِذْرَوَانِ also signifies The two sides of the head: (M, K:) or مَذَارٍ signifies the temples of the head; and the singular is مِذْرًى; according to AA. (S.)
4.
Also,
مِذْرَوَانِ, The two places, of a bow, upon which lies the string, in the upper portion and the lower: (AHn, S, M, K: *) and in this sense it has no singular: (S:) or, according to AA, its singular is مِذْرًى. (M.)