خصل1 خَصَلَ, (K,) inf. n. خَصْلٌ, (TA,) He cut, or cut off, a thing; (K;) as also قَصَلَ. (TA.) [Accord. to the TA, this is the proper, or primary signification.] b2:  خَصَلَهُمْ, [aor., accord. to rule, خَصُلَ,] inf. n. خَصْلٌ and خِصَالٌ, He overcame them, or surpassed them, in shooting. (S, K. [In the CK, فَضَلَهُمْ is erroneously put for نَضلَهُمْ.]) See also 3.2 خصّلهُ, inf. n. تَخْصِيلٌ, He cut it, or divided it, in pieces. (M, K.) b2:  خصّل الشَجَرَ, (K,) inf. n. as above, (TA,) He lopped the branches of the trees: (K, TA:) or تَخْصِيلٌ signifies the cutting off slender extremities and branches from the [species of mimosa called] عُرْفُط, in the interior parts thereof. (JK.) b3:  خصّل البَعِيرَ He cut off, for the camel, the خُصْلَة, (K,) i. e. the soft and tender branch of a tree. (TA.) 3 خَاْصَلَ ↓ خَاصَلْتُهُمْ فَخَصَلْتُهُمْ, inf. n. of the former مُخَاصَلَةٌ, I vied, competed, or contended for superiority, with them in shooting, and I overcame them, or surpassed them, therein. (TA.) 4 اخصل He (a shooter) hit the target: (K, TA:) or made his arrow to fall close by the side of the target. (JK, K.) 6 تخاصلوا They vied, competed, or contended for superiority, in shooting: (Az, TA:) or they contended together for stakes, or wagers, laid by them to be taken by the winner in shooting. (S, K.) خَصْلٌ A stake, or wager, laid in a shootingmatch. (S, TA.) One says, أَحْزَرَ خَصْلَهُ and أَصَابَ خَصْلَهُ [He won his stake, or wager;] he overcame (S, K, TA) in the case of laying stakes or wagers [in a shooting-match]. (TA.) b2:  and A thing for which persons contend together in a game of hazard. (Har p. 640.) b3:  See also خَصْلَةٌ, in two places.خَصِلٌ [One who overcomes much, or often, in shooting-matches: occurring in the Deewán of the Hudhalees: expl. by Freytag as meaning multum vincens in ludo alearum].خَصْلَةٌ i. q. خَلَّةٌ: (S, K:) i. e. A property, quality, nature, or disposition: and a habit, or custom: (KL, PS, TK:) [and a practice, or an action: it is used in these various senses in different trads.: in one trad., avarice is termed a خَصْلَة; and so is evilness of nature: in another, fasting, and praying: in another, the inflicting of castigation, and the executing of retaliation, in a mosque:] it signifies an excellent quality or the like; and a low, base, or mean, quality or the like; (K, TA;) in a man: (TA:) or its predominant application is to an excellent quality or the like: (K:) so in the M: (TA:) [it is said that] it is used only in commendation; whereas خَلَّةٌ is used in relation to good and evil: (Ham p. 525:) [but this is a mistake, as I have shown above:] accord. to Az, it signifies the states, or conditions, of things or affairs: (TA:) [or this is a signification of the pl.:] the pl. is خِصَالٌ (K) and خَصَلَاتٌ; (TA;) [and ↓ خَصَائِلُ is a pl. pl., i. e. pl. of خِصَالٌ, with which it is explained in the KL as syn.: see an ex. in a verse cited voce دَفِئٌ.]A2:  A hitting of the target; (K;) in shooting: (TA:) or, (K,) as also ↓ خَصْلٌ, (JK, K,) in a shooting-match, (JK,) it is [a shot] in the case in which the arrow goes close by the target: (JK, K: *) thus accord. to Lth, who says that the former explanation is erroneous; (TA;) [as appears also from the assertion that] what are termed خَصْلَتَانِ, in a shooting-match, are reckoned as equivalent to a shot that goes right to the target. (T, K, TA.) b2:  And accord. to Sgh, A single act of overcoming in a shooting-match. (TA.) A3:  Also, and ↓ خُصْلَةٌ, A raceme, or bunch, of grapes or the like; syn. عُنْقُودٌ. (K.) b2:  and (both words) A stick, branch, or twig, (عُودٌ,) in which are thorns. (K.) b3:  And خَصْلَةٌ and ↓ خَصَلَةٌ, or this latter only, The extremity of a fresh, pliant, soft, or tender, twig, or rod: (K, * TA:) and (some say, TA) a soft and tender twig or rod, of the [species of mimosa called] عُرْفُط: (K, TA:) and ↓ خَصْلٌ [of which خَصْلَةٌ is the n. un.] signifies the slender extremities and branches of the عُرْفُط: (JK:) and ↓ خُصْلَةٌ, a soft and tender branch of any tree: (T, TA:) and [its pl.] خُصَلٌ, the pendent extremities of trees. (S, TA.) خُصْلَةٌ A لَفِيفَة, (S,) [i. e.] a lock, or flock, (PS,) or a plexus, (KL,) or a quantity collected [or hanging] together, (K,) of hair, (S, K, KL, PS,) and of wool, (PS, and S and K in art. جز,) &c.: (PS:) or a small quantity of hair; as also ↓ خَصِيلَةٌ, (K,) as in the M: pl. خُصَلٌ. (TA.) b2:  See also خَصْلَةٌ, in two places. b3:  Also A portion of flesh forming a distinct limb or member or organ (عُضْوٌ مِنَ اللَّحْمِ). (K.) خَصَلَةٌ: see خَصْلَةٌ.خَصِيلٌ: see خَصِيلَةٌ, in two places.A2: Also Overcome [in a shooting-match, or] in a contest for stakes or wagers. (JK, K.) A3:  And A tail; (K, TA;) as, for instance, of a [wild] bull. (TA.) خُصَالَةٌ a dial. var. of حُصَالَةٌ, (JK, K, TA,) meaning The remains of wheat in the sieve, after the sifting, with what are mixed therewith: but the latter word is the more known. (JK, TA.) خَصِيلَةٌ A piece, or portion, of flesh, (M, K,) small or large: (M, TA:) or the flesh of the thighs and of the upper arms and of the fore arms: (K:) or any portion of flesh, by itself, of the flesh of the thighs and of the upper arms (JK, T, S, TA) and of the shanks and of the fore arms: (JK, T, TA:) or the portion of flesh of the thigh: (TA:) or any compact and long portion of flesh, in the arm or elsewhere; also called خَبِيبَةٌ: (AO, TA in art. خب:) or (K, TA, but in the CK “ and ”) [any muscle, of those that are termed voluntary muscles; as also عَضَلَةٌ and عَضِيلَةٌ; i. e.] any tendon, or sinew, upon which is thick flesh: (K:) or any portion of flesh that is oblong, and intermixed with tendons, or sinews: (O, TA:) or, as some say, the طَفْطَفَة [or flank, &c.]: (TA:) pl. ↓ خصِيلُ [or rather this is a coll. gen. n.] and [the pl. is] خَصَائِلُ. (K.) A certain person has described a horse as being سَبْطُ↓ الخَصِيلِ [app. meaning Lank in the muscles; or long and even therein]: and sometimes خَصَائِل is used in relation to a man. (TA.) b2: See also خُصْلَةٌ.A2:  And for the pl. خَصَائِلُ see also خَصْلَةٌ.مِخْصَلٌ A very sharp sword (JK, S, K) &c.: (M:) a dial. var. of مِقْصَلٌ. (S.) مِخْضَلٌ is said by A 'Obeyd to be a mistranscription for مِخْصَلٌ; but AHei and others authorise it. (TA.) مِخْصَالٌ A مِنْجَل [or reaping-hook]: (K:) or an instrument with which the branches of trees are lopped, (JK, Ibn-'Abbád, TA,) like the فَأْس. (Ibn-'Abbád, TA.)