خلس1 خَلَسَهُ, (S, A, Msb,) aor. ـِ (Msb, MS,) inf. n. خَلْسٌ (Mgh, Msb, K) and خِلِّيسَى; (K;) and ↓ اختلسهُ; (S, A, Msb, K;) and ↓ تخلّسهُ; (S, TA;) He seized it, or carried it off, by force; (S, A, K;) مِنْ يَدِهِ from his hand: (A:) he took it at an opportunity, with deceit, guile, or circumvention: (TA:) or he took it hastily and openly: (Mgh:) or he snatched it at unawares; seized it hastily when its owner was unaware: (Msb:) or ↓ اِخْتِلَاسٌ denotes a quicker action than خَلْسٌ. (Lth, K.) You say also, خَلَسَهُ إِيَّاهُ [He seized it, or carried it off, from him by force; &c.]: (TA:) and الشَّىْءَ ↓ خَالَسْتُهُ I seized the thing, or snatched it away, from him. (Har p. 139.) And أَخَذَهُ خِلِّيسَى, i. e. ↓ اِخْتِلَاسًا [He took it by forcible seizure; &c.]. (TA.) خَلْسٌ is also in fighting and prostrating: and you say, طَعْنَةً ↓ اختلس [He seized an opportunity to inflict a thrust, or wound, with a spear or the like]. (TA.) And بَصَرُهُ ↓ اُخْتُلِسَ (assumed tropical:)  His sight was suddenly taken away. (A * and TA in art. ملس.) 3 خالسهُ الشَّىْءَ, (A, TA, *) inf. n. مُخَالَسَةٌ and خِلَاسٌ, (TA,) [He contended with him in a mutual endeavouring to seize, or carry off, the thing by force; or to take it at an opportunity, with deceit, guile, or circumvention; or to take it hastily and openly; or to snatch it at unawares: see 1 and 6.] A poet says, [app. using the verb tropically,] نَظَرْتُ إِلَىمَىٍّ خِلَاسًا عَشِيَّةًعَلَى عَجَلٍ وَ الْكَاشِحُونَ حُضُورُ [I looked at Mei, vying with her in snatching glances, in the evening, in haste, while the secret enemies were present]. (Th, TA.) b2:  See also 1.4 اخلس It (the hair, A, TA, and the head, [meaning the hair of the head,] Az, S, TA) became a mixture of black and white, (S, A, TA,) in equal proportions: or more black than white: (TA:) [or mostly white: (see خَلِيسٌ:)] or partly white. (Az.) b2:  [Hence,] (tropical:)  It (herbage) became a mixture of fresh and dry: (S, K, TA:) or partly green and partly white, in drying up. (Az, TA.) (assumed tropical:)  It (حَلِىّ [q. v.]) put forth fresh verdure. (IAar, TA.) And اخلست الأَرْضُ (assumed tropical:)  The land put forth somewhat of herbage. (TA.) 5 تَخَلَّسَ see 1.6 تَخَالَسَا الشَّىْءَ [They both contended together, each endeavouring to seize, or carry off, the thing by force; or to take it an opportunity, with deceit, guile, or circumvention; or to take it hastily and openly; or to snatch it at unawares: see 1 and 3]: (A:) the inf. n., تَخَالُسٌ, signifies i. q. تَسَالُبٌ. (S, K.) b2:  تخالس القِرْنَانِ, and تخالسا نَفْسَيْهِمَا, The two opponents sought to seize each other by force; &c. (T, TA.) 8 إِخْتَلَسَ see 1, in five places. b2:  [اختلس also signifies (assumed tropical:)  He slurred a vowel; i. e., pronounced it slightly: and he suppressed it altogether.]خَلْسٌ: see خَلِيسٌ.خُلْسٌ: see خَلِيسٌ.خَلْسَةٌ inf. n. of un. of خَلَسَهُ [A single act of seizing, or carrying off, by force; &c.]. (Msb.) A2:  It also occurs in a trad., where, if correctly related, it is syn. with خَلْسَةٌ. (Mgh.) خُلْسَةٌ a subst. from خَلَسَهُ: (S, K:) [which may perhaps mean that it has the abstract sense of the inf. n.: and] A thing that is [seized, or carried off, by force; or taken at an opportunity, with deceit, guile, or circumvention; or ] taken  hastily and openly; (Mgh;) or snatched at unawares: (Msb:) or spoil; plunder; booty; a thing taken by spoliation and force; as also ↓ خَلِيسَةٌ; which last also signifies an animal that is snatched from a beast or bird of prey and dies before it has been legally slaughtered; in consequence of which it is forbidden [to be eaten]. (TA.) Hence, لَا قَطْعَ فِى الخُلْسَةِ [There shall be no amputation (of the right hand) in the case of a thing seized, or carried off, by force; &c.]. (Mgh, Msb.) [See also an ex. voce حُذَيَّا, in art. حذى.] b2:  An opportunity. (S, * A, TA.) Yousay, هٰذِهِ خُلْسَةٌ فَانْتَهِزْهَا This is an opportunity, therefore do thou take it, or seize it. (A, TA.) A2:  A mixture of whiteness with blackness in the hair, (S, Ham p. 387, TA,) in equal proportions: or of more blackness than whiteness: (TA:) [or a predominance of whiteness: see خَلِيسٌ.] b2: [Hence,] (tropical:)  A mixture of fresh and dry portions [or green and white (see 4)] in herbage. (S, K, TA.) خَلْسَآءُ: see the next paragraph.خَلِيسٌ [an epithet having the sense of the pass. part. n. of خَلَسَهُ; i.e., Seized, or carried off, by force; &c.]. [Hence,] طَعْنَةٌ خَلِيسٌ A thrust, or wound, with a spear or the like, which one has seized an opportunity to inflict, by means of his skill. (TA.) A2:  A courageous man; as also ↓ مُخَالِسٌ and ↓ خَلَّاسٌ. (TA.) A3:  Also, and ↓ مُخْلِسٌ, Hair having whiteness mixed with its blackness, (A, TA,) in equal proportions: or with more blackness than whiteness: (TA:) or mostly white: (Mgh:) or partly white. (Az, TA.) And the former, Having a mixture of whiteness with the blackness of his hair. (S, K,) b2:  [Hence,] the former also signifies (tropical:)  Herbage drying up, or dried up, (S, K, TA,) part yellow and part green; as also ↓ مُخْلِسٌ: (TA:) or both signify having its dry and green portions intermixed: (A:) and the former signifies dry herbage, upon the lower part of which fresh has grown and mixed with the former; as also ↓ خَلْسٌ (K.) b3: Also (assumed tropical:)  White (أَحْمَرُ [q. v.]) whose whiteness is mixed with blackness: and so, applied to women, ↓ خُلْسٌ, (syn. سُمْرٌ, TA,) of which the sing. may be ↓ خَلْسَآءُ; or خَلِيسٌ; or ↓ خِلَاسيَّةٌ, supposing the two augments (ية TA) to be elided. (K.) b4:  Also (assumed tropical:)  i. q.  خَلِيطٌ [q. v.]. (TA.) b5:  And (assumed tropical:)  The young one of a she-camel begotten by a stallion not prepared for her. (Sgh, TA.) خَلِيسَةٌ: see خُلْسَةٌ.خِلَاسِىٌّ (tropical:)  A boy whose mother is black, and his father a white, or tawny, Arab, and who is born of a colour between those of his two parents; fem. with ة: (Az, TA:) or (tropical:)  a child whose parents are (one) white and (the other) black, (A, K, TA,) a white man and a black woman, or a black man and a white woman. (TA.) See also خَلِيسٌ. b2:  And (tropical:)  A domestic fowl, (A,) or cock, (K,) begotten between an Indian and a Persian fowl. (A, K.) خَلَّاسٌ: see خَالِسٌ: b2:  and see خَلِيسٌ.خَالِسٌ One who seizes, or carries off, a thing by force: who takes it at an opportunity, with deceit, guile, or circumvention: [or who takes it hastily and openly: or who snatches at unawares:] as also ↓ خَلَّاسٌ: [or this latter has an intensive signification:] and [in like manner] ↓ مُخْتَلِسٌ one  who seizes, or carries off, a thing at a time of inadvertence. (TA.) b2:  [Hence,] الخَالِسُ Death: because it seizes people unawares. (TA.) مُخْلِسٌ: see خَلِيسٌ, in two places.مُخَالِسٌ: see خَلِيسٌ.مُخْتَلِسٌ: see خَالِسٌ.