وشج1 وَشَجَتِ العُرُوقُ والأَغْصَانُ The roots and branches became entangled together. (S.) b2:  وَشَجَ, aor. ـِ inf. n. وَشْجٌ and وَشِيجٌ, It (anything) became entangled, intermixed, confused, or intricate. (TA.) b3:  وَشَجَتْ فِى قَلْبِهِ أُمُورٌ وَهُمُومٌ (tropical:)  Affairs, and griefs, or solicitudes, became perplexing in his heart. (TA.) b4:  قَدْ وَشَجَتْ بِكَ قَرَابَةُ فُلَانٍ, aor. ـِ K,) (tropical:)  The relationship of such a one to thee has become intricate; (S, K, TA;) like as the roots and branches of trees become intricate. (TA.) 2 وَشّج القَرَابَةَ, inf. n. تَوْشِيجٌ, (tropical:)  He (God) made the relationship intricate. (S, K.) b2:  وشّج اللّٰهُ بَيْنَهُمْ (tropical:)  God joined and mixed them together. (TA.) b3:  وشّج He laced together a مَحْمِل [or basket in which grapes are carried to the dryingplace] with a leather thong, or the like, (such as a شَرِيط, TA,) lest anything should fall from it. (K.) وَشِيجٌ Trees of which spears are made: (S, K:) or canes growing obliquely, or, as in the M, in an intricate manner: or the hardest of canes: or, as a coll. gen. n., (tropical:) spears; n. un. with ة: (TA:) [See also عِجْلَةٌ:] or, originally, the roots of canes: and afterwards applied to signify spears, themselves; so called because of their intermingling when meeting together. (Ham, p. 165.) b2:  تَطَاعَنُوا بِالوَشِيجِ (tropical:)  They thrust one another with the spears. (A.) b3:  أَفْنَتِ السَّنَةُ الوَشِيجَ Drought destroyed the tangled trees, or their roots; no moisture remaining in the earth. (TA, from a trad.) b4:  وَشِيجٌ The roots of the sinews. (TA.) b5:  وَشِيجٌ (tropical:)  Intricacy of relationship: (S, K:) pl. وَشَائِجُ. (TA.) Ex. بَيْنَهُمْ وَشَائِجُ النَّسَبِ There is an intricacy of relationship between them. (TA.) وَشِيجَةٌ The root (عِرْق) of a tree. (S, K.) b2: See وَاشِجَةٌ. b3:  وَشِيجَةٌ [An implement made of] fibres of the palm tree (ليف) twisted, and then tied (or, as in some lexicons, attached in the manner of a net, TA,) between two pieces of wood, (or a net between two pieces of wood, TA,) upon which reaped wheat &c. are carried. (S, K.) وَاشِجٌ Anything entangled, intermixed, confused, or intricate. (TA.) وَاشِجَةٌ (S, K) and ↓ وَشِيجَةٌ (TA) (tropical:)  Intricate  relationship; or intricate uterine relationship; (S, K;) and close. (TA.) Ex. بَيْنَهُمْ وَاشِجَةُ رَحِمٍ Between them is an intricate and close relationship. (TA.) أَمْرٌ مُوَشَّجٌ An intricate, or a confused, affair. (TA.)