أَمْسَكَ
1.
He retained; he withheld. (Msb.)
2.
He maintained: he was tenacious, or niggardly.
3.
He, or it, held fast a thing: and arrested it.
4.
أَمْسَكَهُ
He held, retained, detained,
restrained, stayed, confined, imprisoned, or withheld, him. (K.)
5.
أَمْسَكَ عَنِ الأَمْرِ
He held, refrained, or abstained, from the thing. (Msb.)
6.
أَمْسَكَهُ
He grasped it, clutched it, laid hold upon it; or seized it, (قَبَضَ عَلَيْهِ) بِيَدِهِ
with his hand: (Msb:) or he took it; or took it with his hand, (أَخَذَهُ,) namely, a rope, &c.: (Mgh:) or he held, or clung, to it: (TA:) [as also بِهِ
تَمَسكَ]. Also, أَمْسَكَ بِهِ signifies [the same; or] he laid hold upon, or seized, somewhat of his body, or what might detain him, as an arm or a hand, or a garment, and the like: but أَمْسَقَهُ may signify he withheld him, or restrained him, from acting according to his own free will. (Mugh, article بِ.)
7.
أَمْسَكَ بَطْنَهُ [It bound, or confined, his belly (or bowels)]: said of medicine. (S, O, Msb, K; all in article عقل.)
8.
الإِمْسَاك, in relation to تَحْجِيل: see an unusual application of it in article طلق, conj. 4.