كَزَّ, [second pers. كَزُزْتَ,] (Ḳ,) aor. ـُ {يَكْزُزُ}, (MṢ, TA,) inf. n. كَزَازَةٌ (Ṣ, A, Ḳ) and كُزُوزَةٌ, (A, Ḳ,) It dried, or dried up; or became stiff, rigid, or tough; and contracted. (Ṣ, A, Ḳ.) You say, كَزَّتْ يَدُهُ His hand became dry, or stiff, rigid, or tough, and contracted. (A.)

[Hence,] كَزَّتْ خُطَاهُ ‡ His steps were [contracted, or] near together. (A, Ḳ.)

[Hence also,] كَزَّتْ نَفْسُهُ andاكتزّت↓ ‡ [His soul became contracted; meaning, he became niggardly]. (A.) Andاكتزّ↓ الرَّجُلُ ‡ The man shrank [from giving]. (Ḳ,* TA.) You say, فُلَانٌ لَا يَهْتَزُّ وَلٰكِنَّهُ يَكْتَزُّ ‡ [Such a one does not rejoice, or is not active, or prompt, and brisk, or cheerfully excited, to give, but he shrinks from giving]. (A, TA.) [كَزَزٌ (q. v. infra) seems to be an inf. n. of which the verb is كَزَّ, second pers. كَزِزْتَ,, aor. ـَ {يَكْزَزُ}, in the sense ofاكتزّ↓ as explained above.]

كُزَّ He (a man) shrank, or became contracted, in consequence of the cold: (Ṣ:) or he became affected by what is termed كُزَاز: (A, Ḳ:) or he became affected by a rheum. (TA.)

كَزَّهُ البَرْدُ and الدَّآءُ [The cold, and disease, made him to shrink, or become contracted, and to be affected with a tremour]. (A.)

كَزَّ الشَّىْءَ, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) aor. ـُ {يَكْزُزُ}, inf. n. كَزٌّ, (TA,) He made the thing narrow, or strait. (Ṣ, Ḳ.)

كَزَّتِ المَرْأَةُ دُمْلُجَهَا, (A, TA,) aor. ـُ {يَكْزُزُ}, (TA,) ‡ The woman filled her armlet with her arm. (A, TA.)

اكزّهُ ٱللّٰهُ God smote him, or afflicted him, with what is termed كُزَاز. (Ḳ.)

كَزٌّ Dry, or dried up; or stiff, rigid, or tough; and contracted: (A, Ḳ:) pl. كُزٌّ. (Ḳ.) You say, يَدٌ كَزَّةٌ A dry, or stiff, rigid, or tough, and contracted, hand. (A.) And خَشَبَةٌ كَزَّةٌ A stiff, rigid, or tough, (TA,) or hard, (A,) and crooked, piece of wood. (A, TA.) And قَنَاةٌ كَزَّةٌ A hard and crooked spear or spear-shaft. (TA.) And قَوْسٌ كَزَّةٌ A stiff, rigid, or tough, bow: (Ṣ, A, Ḳ:) or a bow whereof the arrow does not go far, by reason of the narrowness of the former: (TA:) Aboo-Ziyád says, that the bow thus called is the smallest of bows: (AḤn, TA:) pl. قِسِىٌّ كُزَّاتٌ. (A.) And بَكْرَةٌ كَزَّةٌ A narrow pulley-sheave, that makes a loud creaking (Ṣ, Ḳ) by reason of its narrowness. (TA.) And ذَهَبٌ كَزٌّ Tough gold: (A:) or very hard gold. (Ḳ.) And جَمَلٌ كَزٌّ A hardy, strong camel. (TA.)

رَجُلٌ كَزٌّ, (Ṣ, A,) and كَزٌّ اليَدَيْنِ, (Ṣ, A, Ḳ,) ‡ A niggardly man. (Ṣ, A, Ḳ,) of little beneficence, (TA,) and of little compliance: (A, TA:) pl. كُزٌّ. (Ṣ.)

وَجْهٌ كَزٌّ † A foul, or an ugly, face. (Ḳ.)

كَزَزٌ Hardness and crookedness in a piece of wood, or in a spear or spear-shaft. (TA.)

‡ Niggardliness, (Ḳ,) and littleness of compliance and of beneficence. (TA.) See 1.

كُزَازٌ (Ṣ, A, Ḳ) andكُزَّازٌ↓, (IAạr, A, Ḳ,) or, accord. to Az, the latter is the correct form, and the former is vulgar, (A,) A contraction and tremour arising from cold: (A:) or a tremour arising from intense cold: (IAạr, Ḳ:) or a certain disease arising from intense cold; (Ṣ, Ḳ;) being a spasmodic contraction so occasioned: or, accord. to the physicians, arising from the egress of much blood: (TA:) or a certain disease arising from cold, in consequence of which the patient trembles until he dies. (A.)

مَكْزُوزٌ Made narrow, or strait. (Ṣ.)

A man affected by what is termed كُزَاز: (Ṣ, A, Ḳ:) or affected by a rheum. (TA.)