حَشْوٌ

, like the verbal noun, (TA,) Stuffing; (PS;) [i. e.] what is put into a pillow, or cushion, &c.: (K, TA:) and [hence] cotton: and the seeds used for seasoning food, [and the rice &c.,] with which the belly of a lamb is stuffed: plural مَحَاشٍ, deviating from rule. (TA.)

(tropical:) The soul of a man. (K, TA.)

(assumed tropical:) [A parenthesis;] a redundant part, or portion, of speech, or of a sentence, (K, TA,) upon which nothing is syntactically dependent. (TA. [See Har pp. 85 and 86.])

(assumed tropical:) [A digression.]

(assumed tropical:) The portion of either hemistich of a verse that is comprised between the first and last foot. (KT, &c.)

(assumed tropical:) Small, or young, camels, (S, K,) among which are no great, or old, ones; (S, TA;) as also حَاشِيَةٌ: (S, K:) so called because they enter, or occupy the spaces, among the latter; or because they go against the sides of the latter: (TA:) according to ISk, (S,) الحَاشِيَتَانِ signifies [the camel termed] اِبْنُ المَخَاضِ and [that termed] اِبْنُ اللَّبُونِ: (S, and K in article حشى:) the plural [of حَاشِيَةٌ] is حَوَاشٍ. (TA.) It is said in a tradition respecting the poorrate, أَمْوَالِهِمْ حُذْ مِنْ حَوَاشِى, i. e., according to IAth, (assumed tropical:) Take thou of the small, or young, of their camels; such as those termed ابن المخاض and ابن اللبون. (TA. [But see another explanation of this saying voce حَاشِيَةٌ in article حشى.])

And حَشْوٌ and حَاشِيَةٌ signify also (assumed tropical:) The like of mankind; (S;) [i. e.] حَاشِيَةٌ signifies (tropical:) the lower or lowest, baser or basest, meaner or meanest, sort, or the rabble, or refuse, of mankind, or of the people; (TA in article حشى, and Har p. 61;) as also حَشْوٌ [which is of frequent occurrence in this sense]; (KL;) and حِشْوَةٌ; (S, TA;) such as servants and the like. (Har ubi suprà, in explanation of حاشية. [See also this word in article حشى.]) You say, جَاءَ فُلَانٌ مَعَ حَاشِيَتِهِ (assumed tropical:) Such a one came with those who were in his quarter and protection: but this may be from حَشًا signifying “a region, quarter, or tract;” servants and followers being in the quarter and protection of their master. (Har ubi suprà.) And فُلَانٌ بَنِى فُلَانٍ مِنْ حِشْوَةِ (assumed tropical:) Such a one is of the lower or lowest, &c., of the sons of such a one. (S.)