أَخْرَسُ

(S, &c.) Dumb; prevented from speaking by natural conformation; (Msb;) speechless, or destitute of the faculty of speech, by natural conformation, (T and Msb in article بكم,) like the beast that lacks the faculty of articulation; (T ibid;) differing from أَبْكَمُ, q. v.: (T and Msb ibid:) or tonguetied, or speechless, (K, TA,) either from inability to find words to express what he would say, or by natural conformation [of the organs of speech]: (TA:) feminine خَرْسَاءُ: (Msb:) plural خُرْسٌ (Msb, K) and خُرْسَانٌ. (K.)

جَمَلٌ أَخْرَسُ A he-camel that has no perforation to his شِقْشِقَة, for his bray to issue therefrom, so that he reiterates it therein: such a one they like to send among the [she-camels in the state in which they are termed] شَوْل, because in most instances he begets females: and نَاقَةٌ خَرْسَاءُ a she-camel that is not heard to utter the cry termed رُغَاء. (TA.)

عَلَمٌ أَخْرَسُ (tropical:) A sign of the way, (K,) [or a mountain,] from which, (A,) or at, or in, which, (فِيهِ, K,) no echo is heard: (A, K:) or a sign of the way in the mountain whereof no echo is heard: (Lth, T:) or [it seems to be applied to a mountain where no echo is heard; for] it is said when no sound of an echo is heard in the mountain. (S.)

سَحَابَةٌ خَرْسَاءُ (tropical:) A cloud that does not thunder: (A:) or a cloud in which is no thunder nor lightning, (S, K, TA,) and of which no sound is heard; which is mostly in winter. (TA.)

عَيْنٌ خَرْسَاءُ (assumed tropical:) A spring of the running whereof no sound is heard. (TA.)

صَخْرَةٌ خَرْسَاءُ (assumed tropical:) A hard and solid rock: (Akh, TA:) and عِظَامٌ خُرْسٌ (assumed tropical:) hard and solid bones. (Th, TA.)

كَتِيبَةٌ خَرْسَاءُ (tropical:) An army, or a portion thereof, without any clamour or confused noise: (A:) or whereof no sound is heard, by reason of their staidness in war: (S, K:) or that is silent, by reason of the multitude of the coats of mail, without any clashing of arms. (A 'Obeyd, S, K.)

لَبَنٌ أَخْرَسُ (tropical:) Thick milk, (S, A, K,) that makes no sound in the vessel, (S, K,) or that does not shake about in its vessel: (A:) or thick milk, of which no sound is heard when it is poured out: (Az, TA:) and شَرْبَةٌ خَرْسَاءُ (assumed tropical:) a thick draught of milk. (M, TA.)

وَلِّانِى عِرْضًا أَخْرَسَ أَمْرَسَ [or عُرْضًا?] (assumed tropical:) He turned from me, and would not speak to me. (Fr, TA.)

خَرْسَاءُ (assumed tropical:) A viper: (A:) plural خُرْسٌ. (TA.)

Hence, (A,) رَمَاهُ بِخَرْسَاءَ (tropical:) He smote him with a calamity. (A, K. *)