نسج1 نَسَجَ, aor. ـِ inf. n. نَسْجٌ, He, or it, drew, collected, or gathered, together a thing: drew and joined, or adjoined, one thing to another. This is the primary signification. (L.) b2: نَسَجَتِ الرِّيحُ الوَرَقَ والهَشِيمَ The wind gathered together the leaves and the dry fragments of plants. Hence, accord. to some, نَسَجَ الثَّوْبَ, because the weaver adjoins the warp to the woof. (TA.) b3: نَسَجَتِ الرِّيحُ التُّرَابَ (tropical:) The wind drew the dust together. (TA.) b4: نَسَجَتِ الرِّيحُ المَآءَ, and الرَّمْلَ, and التُّرَابَ, and رَسْمَ الدَّارِ, (tropical:) The wind made rippling lines, in cross directions, upon the water, and the sand, and the dust, and [with dust] upon the traces of the dwelling. (A.) [And so]

طَرَائِقُ كَالْحُبُكِ ↓ إِنْتَسَجَتْ (tropical:) Rippling lines were made, in cross directions, by the wind, upon the water, (S, * A,) and the sand, and the dust, and the traces of the dwelling. (A.) b5: نَسَجَتِ الرِّيحُ الرَّبْعَ (tropical:) The wind, blowing in cross directions, obliterated the traces of the place where persons had alighted, (S, K,) [by covering it with dust or sand in such a manner as that it might be likened to a web]. b6: نَسَجَ (tropical:) It (a spider) wove, or spun, its web. (A.) b7: نَسَجَ الثَّوْبَ, aor. ـِ and نَسُجَ, (S, K,) inf. n. نَسْجٌ, (S,) He wove the piece of cloth, or the garment. (TA, &c.) And نَسَجَ سَيْرًا He plaited a thong. (TA, in art. نسع.) b8: نَسَجَ الشِّعْرَ (tropical:) He wove, or composed verses. (TA.) b9: نَسَجَ الكَلَامَ (tropical:) He (a liar, TA,) forged speech. (K.) b10: Also, (tropical:) He explained, or expounded, language; syn. لَخَّصَهُ. (K.) b11: نَسَجَتِ النَّاقَةُ فِى سَيْرِهَا (tropical:) The she-camel moved her legs quickly in going along. (TA.) 8 انتسج It became drawn, collected, or gathered, together: became drawn and joined, or adjoined, to another thing. (L.) See 1. b2: انتسج It (a piece of cloth, or a garment,) became woven. (TA.) نَسْجُ العَنْكَبُوتِ (tropical:) The spider's web. (A.) b2: See نَسيجٌ.

نُسُجٌ Prayer-carpets; carpets upon which prayer is performed; syn. سَجَّادَاتٌ. (IAar, Th, K.) نَسُوجٌ (tropical:) A she-camel that moves her legs quickly in going along: (TA:) or a she-camel whose load that she carries does not shake about: (K:) so in all the copies of the K; but accord. to more than one of the leading lexicologists, a she-camel whose load, and saddle, are unsteady upon her, and shaking about: (TA:) and a she-camel that makes her load to shift forward to her كَاهِل, [or the part of the back next the neck,] by reason of the vehemence of her pace. (ISh, K.) نَسِيجٌ and ↓ نَسْجٌ [the latter originally an inf. n.] i. q. مَنْسُوجٌ, Woven. (Msb, TA.) [and hence both, as substs., signify A web.] So ↓ نَسِيجَةٌ a web, a thing woven. (S, K. art. طرق.) b2: هُوَ نَسِيجُ وَحْدِهِ (an indeterminate expression, Hishám and Fr, in L, art. وحد, q. v.,) (tropical:) He is unequalled, unique, or an only one of his kind, in knowledge &c.: for when a garment, or piece of cloth, is of a high quality, no other is woven of exactly the same kind. (S, K, &c.) It is only said in praise of a person. (TA.) [Opposed to عُيَيْرُ وَحْدِهِ.] b3: اليَمَنِ ↓ ثَوْبٌ نَسْجُ A garment, or piece of cloth, the texture of El-Yemen. (Msb.) b4: الغَيْثِ ↓ نَسْجُ (tropical:) [The texture of the rain]; meaning the plants, or herbage. (TA.) نَسَاجَةٌ A kind of مِلْحَفَة, with which a person envelops himself. App. thus called by what is originally an inf. n. (L, from a trad.).

نِسَاجَةٌ The art of weaving. (S, K.) نَسِيجَةٌ: see نَسِيجٌ.

نَسَّاجٌ [in some copies of the K, ↓ نَاسِجٌ, the act. part. n. of نَسَجَ,] A weaver. (K.) b2: نَسَّاجٌ also, A manufacturer of coats of mail. (K) b3: نَسَّاجٌ also, (tropical:) A liar; (K;) a forger of lies. (TA.) نَاسِجٌ: see نَسَّاجٌ.

مَنْسِجٌ and مَنْسَخٌ A place where the art of weaving is practised. (S, K.) b2: See مِنْسَجٌ.

مِنْسَجٌ (S, K) and مِنْسِجٌ (TA) [A weaver's loom;] the apparatus upon which the web is stretched to be woven; (S, K;) the wood and apparatus used in the art of weaving, upon which the web is stretched to be woven: (M:) or, specially, the حَفّ; (TA;) i. e. the stay of a weaver's loom; syn. حَفٌّ: (TK:) [in the present day, applied to a frame for weaving: and to one for embroidering]. b2: مِنْسَجٌ (S, K,) and ↓ مَنْسِجٌ (TA) [The wither of a horse: or the lower part thereof: or the part below the withers:] the prominent part from the branches of the shoulder-blades to the lower part of the neck and to the even part of the back; as also حَارِكٌ: behind it is the كَاهِل: (A'Obeyd:) or in a horse, the same as the كاهل in a man, and the حارك in a camel: (TA:) or the part of a horse below the حارك [which latter is the withers, or the upper part thereof]: (S, K:) or the swelling part of the كَاثِبَة [or withers] of a beast, at the place where the mane terminates, beneath the pommel of the saddle: (T:) said to be so called because the sinews of the neck extend towards the back, and those of the back towards the neck, and are woven together upon the shoulder-blades: (TA:) or the extremity of the mane: (A:) or the part between the mane and the place where the shoulder-blades unite: pl. مَنَاسِجُ. (TA.)