كشأ1 كَشَأَ, aor. ـَ He ate cucumber. (S.) b2: كَشَأَ, (S, K.) inf. n. كَشْءٌ, (S,) He ate food: (TA:) or he ate food in the same manner as one eats cucumbers; (Az, S, K;) chewing with the extreme grinders, or filling the mouth, (خَضْمًا,) as in eating cucumbers and the like. (TA.) b3: كَشَأَ and ↓ كشّأ, He ate flesh-meat: [the latter] only used with reference to flesh-meat. (TA.) b4:  كَشَأَ He ate a piece of كَشِىْء. (TA.) [See also 4 and 5.] b5:  كَشِئَ مِنَ الطَّعَامِ, aor. ـَ inf. n. كَشْءٌ and كَشَآءٌ (K) and, accord. to some, كَشَأٌ; (TA;) and ↓ تكشّأ; (K;) He was, or became, filled with food. (K.) A2:  كَشَأَ, (S, K,) inf. n. كَشْءٌ; (S;) and ↓ اكشأ; (El-Umawee, S, K:) He roasted meat until it became dry. (AA, S, K.) b2:  كَشِئَ It (a skin for water &c.) had its inner skin appearing through its outer; (K;) as happens when a skin has been long folded, and has dried and broken in that state. (TA) b3: كَشِئَتْ يَدُهُ His hand chapped; or its skin became rough and corrugated. (K.) A3:  كَشَأَ He peeled a thing: (Fr, K:) used with reference to a hide. (TA.) A4:  كَشَأَ وَسَطَهُ He smote and cut his, or its, middle with a sword. (K, TA.) A5: كَشَأَ Inivit feminam. (K.) 2 كَشَّاَ see 1.4 اكشأ He ate. كَشِىْء. (TA.) A2:  And see 1.5 تكشّأ اللَّحْمَ He ate dry meat [see كَشِىء], (S,) and was filled with it. (TA.) See 1.A2: تكشّأ It became peeled. (K.) b2:  تكشّأ الأَدِيمُ The hide became peeled: [i. e., its outer layer of skin, or scarf-skin, was shaven, or scraped off]. (S.) كَشْءٌ inf. n. of 1, q. v. b2:  Roughness and corrugation [or chapping] in the skin of the hand. (TA.) كَشِئٌ and كَشِىْءٌ Filled with food. (K.) A2: كَشِىْءٌ Meat roasted until it becomes dry. (S.) كُشْأَةٌ A vice, fault, defect, blemish, or something amiss. (K.)