حضن1 حَضَنَ الصَّبِىَّ, (K,) aor. ـُ (TA,) inf. n. حَضْنٌ and حِضَانَةٌ, He put the child in his حِضْن [i. e. under his arm, or in his bosom]: or he nourished him, reared him, fostered him, brought him up, (K, TA,) and took care of him; (TA;) as also ↓ احتضنهُ. (K, TA.) And حَضَنَتْ وَلَدَهَا, (S, Mgh,) aor. ـُ (Mgh, TA,) inf. n. حِضَانَةٌ, (Mgh,) said of a woman, (S, Mgh, TA,) She put her child in her حِضْن, and [thus] carried him [under her arm,] on one of her two sides: (TA:) it has a similar meaning to the phrase next following: (S:) or it means she had charge of her child, and carried him, and reared him, or fostered him. (Mgh.) b2:  حَضَنَ بَيْضَهُ, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) and عَلَى بَيْضِهِ, (TA,) aor. ـُ (S, Msb,) inf. n. حَضْنٌ (Mgh, Msb) and حِضَانَةٌ (Msb, K) and حِضَانٌ and حُضُونٌ, (K,) said of a bird, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) He pressed, or compressed, his eggs (S, Msb) to himself, (S,) beneath his wing, (S, Msb,) or beneath his two wings; (so in some copies of the S;) he sat upon his eggs, protecting them with his two sides (بِحِضْنَيْهِ); (Mgh;) he brooded upon his eggs to hatch them: (K:) as also ↓ احتضن. (KL.) b3:  حَضَنَ بَيْضَةً تَحْتَ دَجَاجَةٍلَهُ حَتَّى أَفْرَخَتْ, meaning He put an egg beneath a hen belonging to him, and made her to sit [or brood] upon it [until it became hatched], if remembered to have been heard [from any of the Arabs of pure speech], is a tropical usage of the verb, like as when one says ” The Emeer built the city: “ otherwise, it is correctly [↓ حَضَّنَ,] with teshdeed. (Mgh.) b4:  حَضَنَهُ عَنْ كَذَا, inf. n. حَضْنٌ and حِضَانَةٌ, (tropical:)  He made him to turn away, withdraw, or retire, from such a thing, and had it to himself exclusively; (S, K, TA;) as though he put him aside from it, or by its side: he excluded him from participation in it; in which sense مِنْهُ ↓ أَحْضَنَهُ is disapproved: (TA:) he impeded him, or debarred him, from it. (ISd, TA.) It is related in a trad. of Ibn-Mes'ood  that, when he made his will, he said, وَ لَا تُحْضَنُ زَيْنَبُ عَنْ ذٰلِكَ, meaning (assumed tropical:)  And Zeyneb (his wife) shall not be precluded from looking into that and executing it; namely, his will: or shall not be precluded from it, nor shall any matter [relating to it] be decided without her. (TA.) and you say also, حَضَنَهُ عَنْ حَاجَتِهِ He withheld him from the object of his want; as also ↓ احتضنهُ. (S, ISd, K.) And حَضَنَ مَعْرُوفَهُ, (K,) and حَدِيثَهُ, (TA,) عَنْ جِيرَانِهِ, (K,) and مَعَارِفِهِ, (TA,) inf. n. حَضْنٌ, (K,) (assumed tropical:)  He turned his beneficence, (K, TA,) and his discourse, (TA,) from his neighbours, (K, TA,) and his acquaintances, to others: on the authority of Lh. (TA.) A2:  حَضَنَتْ, aor. ـُ inf. n. حِضَانٌ, (K,) or this is a simple subst., (A 'Obeyd, TA,) She (a ewe [or goat], and a camel, and a woman,) had one of her teats, or breasts, larger than the other. (K.) [See حَضُونٌ.]2 حَضَّنَ see 1.3 فُلَانٌ يُحَاضِنُ النِّسَآءِ [Such a one indulges himself with women in mutual embracing or pressing to the bosom]. (IAar, TA in explanation of the epithet عُقَرَةٌ, q. v.) 4 احضن الطَّائِرَ البَيْضَ He made the bird to sit [or brood] upon the eggs. (Msb.) b2:  أَحْضَنَهُ مِنْهُ: see 1. b3:  احضن بِحَقِّى (tropical:)  He went away with, or took away, my right, or due; (K, TA;) as though he put it by his side. (TA.) b4: احضن الرَّجُلَ, (Az, S, K, *) and احضن بِهِ, (K,) i. q.  أَزْرَى بِهِ (assumed tropical:)  [He held him in little, or light, or mean, estimation, or in contempt; &c.]. (Az, S, K.) 6 تحاضنوا They embraced one another, or pressed one another to the bosom. See also 3.]8 احتضنهُ He put it (a thing) in his حِضْن [i. e. under his arm, or in his bosom]: (S, Msb:) he took it up, and put it in his حِضْن, like as a woman takes up her child, and carries him [in her حضن or] on one of her two sides. (TA.) b2: See also 1, in three places.حُضْنٌ: see what next follows.حِضْنٌ The part beneath the armpit, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) extending to the كَشْح [or flank]: (S, Msb, K:) or the bosom, or breast; syn. صَدْر: [الصَّدْرِ in the CK should be الصَّدْرُ:] and the upper arms with what is between them: (K:) and ↓ مُحْتَضَنٌ signifies the same: (S:) pl. of the former أَحْضَانٌ (Msb, K *) [and accord. to Freytag's Lex. حُضُونٌ also]. b2:  The side of a thing, (S, K,) and of a man: (Mgh:) the lateral, or adjacent, part of a thing: pl. أَحْضَانٌ. (S, * K.) حِضْنَا المَفَازَةِ means The two borders [the nearer border and the further] of the desert. (M, TA.) And حِضْنَا اللَّيْلِ (assumed tropical:)  The two sides [or first and last portions] of the night. (TA.) And [as the حِضْن of a man or woman is often a place of concealment,] one says, مَا زَالَ يَقْطَعُ أَحْضَانَ اللَّيْلِ (tropical:)  [meaning He ceased not to traverse the shades of the night]. (TA.) عَلَيْكُمْ بِالحِضْنَيْنِ, in a trad. of 'Alee, means [Keep ye to] the two wings of the army. (TA.) You say also, أَخَذَ فُلَانٌ حَقَّهُ عَلَىحِضْنِهِ, i. e. Such a one took his right, or due, by force. (TA.) b3:  Also (tropical:)  The quantity that is carried in the حِضْن. (A.) b4:  Also, (S, K,) and ↓ حُضْنٌ, (K,) The hole, or den, or subterranean habitation, of the hyena: (S, K:) or the place of hunting, or of capture, of the hyena. (IB, TA.) b5:  And, both these words, The circuit, or surrounding part, of a mountain: or its base; or lower, or lowest, part. (K.) Accord. to Az, حِضْنَا الجَبَلِ means The two lateral, or adjacent, parts of the mountain. (TA.) حَضَنٌ Ivory: (ISk, S, K:) the tush of the elephant. (T, TA.) حِضَانٌ The state, or condition, of a ewe, or she-goat, (S, TA,) and of a she-camel, and of a man in respect of his testicles, and of the pudendum muliebre, (TA,) denoted by the epithet حَضُونٌ. (S, TA.) [See also حَضُنَتْ.]حَضُونٌ A ewe, and a she-camel, and a woman, having one of her teats, or breasts, larger than the other: (K:) or, applied to a ewe or she-goat, i. q. شَطُورٌ; i. e. having one of her teats longer than the other: (S:) or a she-camel, and a she-goat, of which one of her طُبْيَانِ [meaning either two mammæ or two teats] has gone. (A 'Obeyd, TA.) b2:  Also A man having one of his testicles larger than the other. (K.) b3:  And A pudendum muliebre having the edge of one of its labia majora (i. e. having one of its شُفْرَانِ) larger than the other. (K.) حَضَانَةٌ and حِضَانَةٌ [The office, or occupation, of carrying and rearing or fostering a child: the latter, accord. to the K and the Mgh, is an inf. n.: (see 1, first two sentences:) but accord. to Fei,] each is a subst. from حَاضِنٌ applied to a man, and حَاضِنَةٌ applied to a woman. (Msb.) حَاضِنٌ A man who has the charge of [carrying and] rearing, or nourishing, or fostering, a child: (Msb, * TA:) and حَاضِنَةٌ A woman who has the charge of a child, (S, Mgh, Msb, * K, TA,) who  carries him, (Mgh,) and takes care of him, (TA,) and rears, or nourishes, or fosters, him: (S, Mgh, TA:) pl. of the former حُضَّانٌ (TA) [and حَضَنَةٌ (as in a phrase below), agreeably with a general rule: and pl. of the latter, also agreeably with a general rule, حَوَاضِنُ]. b2:  [Hence,] هُوَ مِنْ حَضَنَةِ العِلْمِ, (tropical:)  i. e. علمته [a mistranscription for غِلْمَتِهِ, meaning He is of the servants of learning, or science]. (TA.) b3:  حَمَامَةٌ حَاضِنٌ (Mgh, Msb, TA) and حَاضِنَةٌ (Msb) A pigeon sitting [or brooding] upon its eggs, protecting them with its two sides; (Mgh;) or pressing, or compressing, its eggs beneath its wing. (Msb.) b4: [Hence,] سُفْعٌ حَوَاضِنُ [pl. of حَاضِنَةٌ] (tropical:)  Three  stones for supporting a cooking-pot, cleaving to the ground, (K, TA,) with the ashes. (TA.) b5: حَاضِنَةٌ also signifies A man's wife: and so حَاصِنَةٌ. (TA.) b6:  And a palm-tree (نَخْلَةٌ) having short racemes: (Kr, K:) or one of which the racemes have come forth, and quitted their spathes, and are short in their fruit-stalks. (AHn, K.) مَحْضَنٌ and مَحْضِنٌ The place in which a bird broods upon its eggs to hatch them: (K:) pl. مَحَاضِنُ. (TA.) See also what next follows.مِحْضَنَةٌ A shallow bowl, made of clay, for the pigeon (K, TA) [to lay its eggs therein, and] to brood therein upon its eggs: (TA:) مَحَاضِنٌ [is its pl.], accord. to rule, pl. of ↓ مَحْضَنٌ [&c., and] signifies the places, in pigeon-towers, in which the pigeons lay their eggs. (Mgh.) [See what next precedes.]مُحْتَضَنٌ: see حِضْنٌ.