شن1 شَنَّ المَآءَ, (S, Mgh, K,) aor. ـُ inf. n. شَنٌّ, (Mgh, TA,) He scattered the water; (S, K;) or poured it scatteringly; (Mgh;) or poured it and scattered it; or, as some say, poured it in a manner like that which is termed نَضْحٌ [i. e. sprinkling]; (TA;) عَلَى الشَّرَابِ [upon the wine, or beverage]: (S, K:) سَنَّهُ signifies “ he poured it gently. ” (TA.) And شَنَّتِ العَيْنُ دَمْعَهَا The eye poured forth its tears; (TA;) or sent forth [or shed] its tears; like شَلَّت, (Lh, TA in art. شل,) which is asserted by Yaakoob to be formed by substitution [of ل for ن]. (TA in that art.) b2: And, from the former, شَنَّ الغَارَةَ, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) aor.  and inf. n. as above, (Msb,) (tropical:)  He scattered, (S, Mgh, Msb, TA,) or poured, (K, TA,) the horsemen making a raid, or sudden attack, and engaging in conflict, or the horsemen urging their horses, الغَارَةَ meaning الخَيْلَ المُغِيرَةَ, (Mgh, Msb,) from every direction, عَلَيْهِمْ [upon them]; (S, K;) as also ↓ اشنّها; (S, Msb, K;) the latter mentioned in the Mj, (Msb,) by IF, but disapproved by the people of chaste speech. (TA.) b3: And شَنَّ بِسَلْحِهِ (AA, S, * TA) He cast forth his excrement, or dung, in a thin [and scattered] state: and one says of the حُبَارَى [or bustard]تَشُنُّ بِذَرْقِهَا [It casts forth its dung in a thin and scattered state]. (AA, TA.) b4:  And شَنَّ عَلَيِْهِ دِرْعَهُ He put (lit. poured) on him his coat of mail. (TA.) A2:  شَنَّ الجَمَلُ مِنَ العَطَشِ, [aor. accord. to general rule شَنِّ,] The camel became dried up [like a شَنّ, q. v.,] from thirst. (TA.) and شَنَّتِ الخِرْقَةُ The rag became dried up. (TA.) 2 تَشْنِينٌ and تَشْنَانٌ [inf. ns. of شنّن] The dripping, or dropping by degrees, of water from the شَنَّة [or old and worn-out water-skin or the like]. (TA. [See also شَنِينٌ.]) 4 أَشْنَ3َ see 1: b2:  and see also what next follows.5 تَشَنَّنَتِ القِرْبَةُ, and ↓ تشانّت, (S, K,) and ↓ اشنّت and ↓ استشنّت, (K,) The water-skin became old, and worn out: (S, K:) or ↓ تشانّ, said of skin, or a skin, does not signify thus, but signifies, (AA, S,) or signifies also, (K,) and so تشنّن, (S, K, TA,) said of the skin of a man, in extreme old age, (S,) it contracted, shrank, shrivelled, or wrinkled; or became contracted or shrunk &c.; (S, K, TA;) and dried up: (S, TA:) and ↓ استشنّ is likewise said of the skin of a man, meaning it became old, and worn out, like the old, and worn-out, شَنّ. (Har p. 675.) It is said in a trad., ↓ القُرْآنُ لَا يَتْفَهُ وَلَا يَتَشَانُّ [expl. in art. تفه]. (TA.) See also a tropical usage of ↓ استشنّ in a trad. cited in the first paragraph of art. بل. b2:  تشنّن is also said of the skin of a man as meaning It became altered [for the worse] in odour, in extreme old age. (TA.) 6 تَشَانَّ: see 5, in three places. b2:  Also It was or became, mixed. (K.) 7 إِنْشَنَ3َ [انشنّ It became poured out, or forth; it flowed. (Freytag, from the Deewán of the Hudhalees.) b2:  Hence,] انشنّ الذِّئْبُ فِى الغَنَمِ (assumed tropical:)  The wolf made an incursion among the sheep or goats; as also انشلّ: mentioned by Az in art. نشغ. (TA.) 10 استشنّ: see 5, in three places. b2:  Also, (Kh, S, K,) said of a man, (Kh, S, TA,) and of a camel, (TA,) (tropical:)  He became lean, or emaciated, (Kh, S, K, TA,) like the water-skin that has become old, and worn out: so says Aboo-Kheyreh: (TA:) or, said of an animal, he became dried up, and lean, or emaciated. (Har p. 530.) b3:  and استشنّ إِلَى اللَّبَنِ i. q. عَامَ, (K,) i. e. He betook himself to milk, or the milk, and desired it eagerly, or longed for it. (TA.) R. Q. 1 شَنْشَنَةٌ [an inf. n., of which the verb, if it be used, is شَنْشَنَ,] The motion of paper, and of a new garment: [or rather the making a kind of crackling sound by the motion thereof:] mentioned by Az in art. فقع: (TA:) and نَشْنَشَةٌ signifies the same: both thus expl. by IAar. (TA in art. قع.) شَنٌّ A skin, (Msb,) or a water-skin, (S, Mgh,) or a small water skin, (K,) or, as some say, any vessel made of skin, (TA,) applied  by a poet to a دَلْو [or leathern bucket], (Ham p. 602,) that is old, and worn out; (S, Mgh, Msb, K, TA;) and so ↓ شَنَّةٌ; (S, K;) but app. one that is small: (S: [in which this addition to the explanation seems to relate peculiarly to the latter word: see an ex. of this latter word in some verses cited in the first paragraph of art. سقى:]) or both signify an old water-skin; as also ↓ مِشَنٌّ: (MA:) and ↓ شَنَنٌ, also, signifies an old, worn-out, water-skin: (TA:) pl. (of the first, Mgh, Msb) شِنَانٌ: (S, Mgh, Msb, K:) and Lh mentions the phrase قِرْبَةٌ أَشْنَانٌ, as though they applied the term شَنٌّ to every portion of the قربة and then pluralized it thus; but he says that he had not heard أَشْنَانٌ as a pl. of شَنٌّ except in this case: (TA:) the water in a شَنّ is cooler [than that in a skin not so old]. (Mgh.) It is said in a prov., لَا يُقَعْقَعُ لِى بِالشِّنَانِ [A confused and clattering noise will not be made to me with the old and worn-out water-skins to frighten me]: (S in the present art.: [in the S and K in art. قع, with مَا in the place of لا; and in the K in that art., with لَهُ in the place of لى:]) مَا يُقَعْقَعُ لَهُ بِالشِّنَانِ is applied to him who will not be abased by misfortunes, nor frightened by that which has no reality: (Sgh and K in art. قع:) or it means, he will not be deceived nor frightened: شِنَان being pl. of شَنٌّ, a dried up skin, which is shaken to a camel to frighten him. (L and TA in art. قع.) An old man is likened to the skin thus termed. (Har p. 675.) And ↓ شَنَّةٌ signifies also (tropical:)  A worn-out old woman; as being likened to the skin thus termed. (IAar, TA.) And one says, رَفَعَ فُلَانٌ الشَّنَّ, meaning (assumed tropical:)  Such a man raised himself bearing upon the palm of his hand. (IKh, TA.) b2:  Also i. q. غرض [app. غَرَضٌ, i. e. A butt, at which one shoots or casts: probably because an old water-skin was sometimes used as a butt]: pl. as above. (Msb.) b3:  [And, as Freytag states, on the authority of Meyd, (assumed tropical:)  Dry herbage.]A2: Also Weakness. (TA.) شَنَّةٌ: see شَنٌّ, in two places.شَنَنٌ: see شَنٌّ, first sentence.شَنَانٌ a dial. var. of شَنْآنٌ [inf. n. of شَنِئَ], (S, K,) signifying Hatred; [or the hating of another;] (S;) mentioned by AO. (S in art. شنأ.) شُنَانٌ Water in a scattered state, or being scattered. (S, K.) b2:  And (K) Cold water: (As, Skr, ISd, K:) this explanation is preferred by Aboo-Nasr. (TA.) b3:  And Clouds (سَحَاب) pouring (يَشُنُّ i. e. يَصُبُّ) water. (Skr, TA.) شَنُونٌ A camel in a state between that of the lean, or emaciated, and that of the fat; (S;) so called because some of his fatness has gone: (Aboo-Kheyreh, TA:) one says مَهْزُولٌ; then  مُنْقٍ, when he has become a little fat; then شَنُونٌ; then سَاحٌّ; and then مُثَرْطِمٌ, when fat in the utmost degree: (Lh, TA:) so says Aboo-Ma'add El-Kilá- bee. (TA in art. سح.) [But it is said that] it signifies also Lean, or emaciated; (K;) applied to a beast: (TA:) and fat: thus having two contr. meanings. (K.) b2:  Also Hungry: (S, K:) applied  in this sense by Et-Tirimmáh to a wolf, because this animal is not described as fat or lean. (S.) شَنِينٌ Poured forth: applied in this sense by the Hudhalee poet 'Abd-Menáf to thick blood (عَلَق). (TA.) b2:  And Pure milk upon which cold water has been poured: (IAar, TA:) or any milk, whether fresh or collected in a skin at different times, upon which water is poured. (K, TA.) A2:  And The dropping (S, K, TA) by degrees, (TA,) of water (S, K, TA) from a skin, (TA,) and of tears. (S, TA. [See also 2, and see شِنْشِنَةٌ.]) شُنَانَةٌ Water that drops (S, K) from a skin, or from a tree. (S.) شَانَّةٌ The [channel called] مَدْفَع [q. v.] of a small valley: or a small مَدْفَع of a valley: (TA: [the want of a vowel-sign in my original renders it doubtful which of these meanings is the right one:]) or شَوَانُّ, its pl., signifies the channels of water, of mountains, that pour forth into valleys from a rugged place. (AA, TA.) شِنْشِنَةٌ A nature; or a natural, a native, or an innate, disposition or temper or the like; syn. طَبِيعَةٌ, (S, Mgh, K,) and خُلُقٌ, (S,) and سَجِيَّةٌ: (TA:) and a custom, habit, or wont: (Mgh, K:) [pl. شَنَاشِنُ.] One says فِيهِ مِنْ أَبِيهِ شَنَاشِنُ In him are habits [or natural dispositions inherited] from his father. (TA.) Hence, شِنْشِنَةٌ أَعْرِفُهَا مِنْ أَخْزَمْ [A natural disposition, or a habit, which I know, as inherited from Akhzam]: (S, Meyd, Mgh:) or, accord. to one relation, نِشْنِشَةٌ, which is app. formed by transposition from شِنْشِنَةٌ: (Meyd:) a prov.: (Meyd, Mgh:) [of its origin there are different explanations: see Freytag's Arab. Prov. i. 658, and Har pp. 591 and 596:] أَخْزَمُ is the proper name of a man: (Meyd, Mgh, &c.:) or accord. to Lth, it is an epithet applied to a penis; one says كَمَرَةٌ خَزْمَآءُ “ a glans of a penis having a short frænum,” and ذَكَرٌ أَخْزَمُ; and شنشنة means the dropping of water [i. e., in this case, of the seminal fluid]: (Meyd:) the prov. is applied in relation to nearness of resemblance. (Meyd, Mgh.) A2:  Also A bit of flesh-meat, as much as is chewed at once; syn. مُضْغَةٌ: or a piece of flesh-meat; (K, TA;) and so نِشْنِشَةٌ: on the authority of AA. (TA.) b2:  And [the pl.] شَنَاشِنُ signifies Bones; like سَنَاسِنُ. (IAar, L in art. سن.) مِشَنٌّ: see شَنٌّ, first sentence.مِشَنَّةٌ A thing like the مِكْتَل: [in the present day, a round shallow basket is thus called: pl. مَشَانُّ.] (TA.)