أَسْرٌ
1.
i. q.
إِسَارٌ, q. v. (S.) Hence the saying, هٰذَا الشَّىْءُ لَكَ بِأَسْرِهِ
This thing is for thee, or is thine,[lit.] with its thong of untanned hide [wherewith it is bound]; meaning, altogether; like as one says, بِرُمَّتِهِ. (S.) And خُذْهُ بِأَسْرِهِ
Take thou it all, or altogether. (Msb.) And جَاءَ القَوْمُ بِأَسْرِهِمْ
The people came altogether. (Aboo-Bekr.)
2.
Strength of make, or form. (M, K.) [Accord. to the copies of the K in my hands, it also signifies Strength of natural disposition; but instead of وَالخُلُق, in those copies, we should read وَالخَلْقُ, agreeably with other lexicons, as is implied in the TA: see 1.] You say, فُلَانٌ شَدِيدٌ أَسْرٍ الخَلْقِ (tropical:) Such a one is of strong, firm, or compact, make, or form. (TA.)
3.
شَدَدْنَا أَسْرَهُمْ, in the Qur'an, 76:28, means (tropical:) We have strengthened their make, or form: (S, A, Msb:) or, their joints: or, their two sphincters which serve as repressers of the urine and feces (مَصَرَّتَىِ البَوْلِ وَ الغَايءِطِ), which contract when the excrement has passed forth; or the meaning is, that these two things do not become relaxed before one desires. (IAar, K.)