حُشَاشَةٌ

The [last] remains of the spirit (S, A, * Msb, K) in the heart, (TA,) [or of life;] in a sick man, (S, Msb, K,) and in one who is wounded; (K;) as also ↓ حُشَاشٌ, (S, Msb, K,) the ة being sometimes elided. (Msb.)

And (assumed tropical:) Any remains, or relic. (TA.) You say, مَا بَقِىَ مِنَ المُرُوْءَةِ إِلَّا حُشَاشَةٌ تَتَرَدَّدُ فِى أَحْشَاءِ مُحْتَضَرٍ (tropical:) [There remained not, of manliness, save a last relic going to and fro, or wavering, in the entrails of one at the point of death]. (A, TA.) And مَا بَقِىَ مِنَ الشَّمْسِ إِلَّا حُشَاشَةٌ نَازِعٌ (tropical:) [There remained not, of the sun, save a last departing relic]. (A, TA.)