استمات

[He sought death: &c.: see مُسْتَمِيتٌ].

إِسْتَمِيتُوا صَيْدَكُمْ, and دَابَّتَكُمْ, Wait until ye ascertain that your game, and your beast of carriage, has died. (A.)

استمات [properly, He sought, or courted, death;] i. q. استقتل; (S, K; in article قتل;) meaning he cared not for death, by reason of his courage. (JM, in article قتل.)

استمات (assumed tropical:) He (a man) was pleased with death; content to die. (TA.)

استمات (assumed tropical:) He (a man, TA.) tried every way, or did his utmost, in seeking a thing. (IAar, K.)

استمات, verbal noun إِستِمَاتٌ, (occurring thus with the final ة elided, (TA,) (assumed tropical:) He (a man, and a camel, IAar,) became fat after having been emaciated, (IAar, K.)

استمات (tropical:) It (a thing) became relaxed, loose, or flabby. (A.)

استمات لِينًا (assumed tropical:) It attained the utmost degree of softness: said of a fine skin, that is likened to the thin pellicle that adheres to the white of an egg: and of other things, as also استمات فِى اللِّينِ: and in like manner, فِى الصَّلَابَةِ, in hardness. (TA.) See مُسْتَمِيتٌ

And see 1.