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أَسْرٌ ذ i. q. إِِسَارٌ, q. v. (S.) Hence the saying, هٰذَا الشَّىْءُ لَكَ بِأَسْرِهِ This thing is for thee, or is thine,[lit.] with its thong of untanned hide [wherewith it is bound]; meaning, altogether; like as one says, بِرُمَّتِهِ. (S.) And خُذْهُ بِأَسْرِهِ Take thou it all, or altogether. (Msb.) And جَآءَ القَوْمُ بِأَسْرِهِمْ The people came altogether. (Aboo-Bekr.) ― -b2- Strength of make, or form. (M, K.) [Accord. to the copies of the K in my hands, it also signifies Strength of natural disposition; but instead of وَالخُلُق, in those copies, we should read وَالخَلْقُ, agreeably with other lexicons, as is implied in the TA: see 1.] You say, فُلَانٌ شَدِيدٌ أَسْرٍ الخَلْقِ (tropical:) Such a one is of strong, firm, or compact, make, or form. (TA.) ― -b3- شَدَدْنَا أَسْرَهُمْ, in the Kur [lxxvi. 28], means (tropical:) We have strengthened their make, or form: (S, A, Msb:) or, their joints: or, their two sphincters which serve as repressers of the urine and feces (مَصَرَّتَىِ البَوْلِ وَ الغَائِطِ), which contract when the excrement has passed forth; or the meaning is, that these two things do not become relaxed before one desires. (IAar, K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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