مَعِرٌ

A man, (S,) and a head, (A,) whose hair is falling off, or has fallen off; (S, A;) as also ↓ أَمْعَرُ and ↓ مُتَمَعِّرٌ: (A:) or having little hair; (TA;) as also ↓ أَمْعَرُ: (S:) and the first and second, a camel's foot (خُفّ) of which the hair (both شَعَر and وَبَر) has gone: and ↓ مَعْرَاءُ, a forelock (نَاصِيَة, K, or that of a horse, TA,) of which all the hair has gone. (K.)

Hair, and plumage, and the like, little in quantity, or scanty; as also ↓ أَمْعَرُ: and the latter, hair falling off. (K.)

[Hence,] (tropical:) A man who is niggardly, or avaricious, having little beneficence; (K;) unpropitious, mean, and hard, or difficult. (TA.)

(assumed tropical:) A man having little flesh. (TA.)

قَاعٌ مَعِرٌ, and أَرْضٌ مَعِرَةٌ, (tropical:) A plain, and land, destitute of herbage: (A:) or the latter, according to Yaakoob, land having little herbage: and ↓ مَكَانٌ أَمْعَرُ a place having little herbage. (S.)