خزّر

, (TA,) verbal noun تَخْزِيرٌ, (K,) He made narrow. (K, TA.) You say, خزّر عَيْنَيْهِ He (an old man) narrowed his eyes; contracted his eyelids as though they were sewed together; to collect the light: when a young man does so, يَتَدَاهَى بِذٰلِكَ [i. e. he affects, or pretends, thereby, to be cunning; i. e. intelligent, or sagacious; or intelligent with a mixture of craft and forecast]. (IAar. [See also خَزَرَ: and see 6.])