مَصْنَعٌ

[may be sued, agreeably with analogy, as a verbal noun: and as a n. of place, and of time]. A poet says,

إِنَّ الصَّنِيعَةَ لا تَكُونُ صَنِيعَةً

حَتَّى يُصَابَ بِهَا طَرِيقُ المَصْنَعِ

[which may be rendered Verily that which is a good deed considered abstractedly, or without relation to the manner or object &c., will not be a good deed in effect except, or unless, the way of the doing, or the way that leads to the place (here meaning the object) of the doing, be rightly hit upon therewith]. (O, TA.)

In the following verse of Náfi' Ibn-Lakeet, (TA in this article and in article ريش,) wrongly ascribed by J [in arts. ريش and مرط] to Lebeed, (TA in article ريش,) and ascribed by others to other poets, (TA in article مرط,) it is explained by IAar as signifying A place that is deemed goodly [in workmanship]; synonym مُسْتَمْلَحٌ [a n. of place, according to a general rule, as well as pass. particle n.: or مَصْنَعٌ may be here more literally rendered a place of skilful workmanship]: the poet says,

مُرُطُ القِذَاذِ فَلَيْسَ فِيهِ مَصْنَعٌ

لَا الرِّيشُ يَنْفَعُهُ وَلَا التَّعْقِيبُ

(TA in the present article) meaning Having no feathers upon it, [and having in it no place exhibiting skilful workmanship, neither the feathers being of use to it] nor the binding around with sinews. (TA in article ريش.)

See also what here follows.