كِرْسٌ
1.
Compacted, or caked, or a cake of, dung and urine of camels and of sheep or goats, (S, * A, * K, * TA,) in a house, and upon the traces of men's abode: (TA:) and also, compacted clay or mud: (TA:) plural أَكْرَاسٌ. (A, TA.) [Hence,] كِرْسُ الحَوْضِ
The place in which the camels stand at the watering-trough or tank, and which in consequence becomes compacted [by the mixture of their dung and urine with the soil]. (TA.)
2.
كِرْسُ بِنَاءٍ [The foundation, or lowest part of a building: see 2]. (TA.)
3.
One of the
أَكْرَاس [meaning series or strings of beads] of [the necklaces and similar ornaments called] قَلَايءِد and وُشُح
and the like: you say, قِلَادَةٌ ذَاتُ كِرْسَيْنِ [a necklace of two such series], and ذَاتُ أَكْرَاسٍ ثَلَاثَةٍ [of three such series], when you join one part to another [in several places, by larger beads: see قِلَادَةٌ مُكْرَسَةٌ, below]. (Lth, K. *)