خوض1 خَاضَ المَآءَ, aor. ـُ inf. n. خَوْضٌ (S, A, Msb, K) and خِيَاضٌ, (S, A, K,) [He waded, or forded, through the water;] he passed through the water walking or riding: (S:) or he entered into the water; (A, K;) as also ↓ خَوَّضَهُ, (K,) inf. n. تَخْوِيضٌ; (TA;) [or this latter has an intensive signification, as it is said to have in a phrase below;] and ↓ اختاضهُ: (K:) or he walked in, or through, the water; (Msb;) as also ↓ تخوّضهُ: (TA:) or he entered into the water and walked in it, or through it. (TA.) You say also, خَاضَ بِالفَرَسِ, meaning He brought the horse to the water; as also ↓ اخاضهُ, (K,) inf. n. إِخَاضَهُ; (Az;) and ↓ خاوضهُ, (K,) or خاوضهُ فِى المَآءِ, inf. n. مُخَاوَضَةٌ, as in the A: (TA:) or ↓ اخاضوا المَآءَ signifies خَاضُوهُ بِدَوَابِّهِمْ [They waded or forded through the water, or entered into it, &c., with their beasts]: and you say also, ↓ خَاوَضْتُهُمْ فى المَآءِ [I waded or forded with them through the water; &c.; meaning with men, not with beasts]: (so I find in a copy of the A:) and القَوْمُ ↓ اخاض signifies خَاضَتْ خَيْلُهُمُ المَآءَ [The people's horses waded or forded through the water]. (S.) b2:  خَاضَتِ الإِبِلُ لُجَّ السَّرَابِ (tropical:)  [The camels passed through the great expanse of mirage]. (A.) b3:  خَاضَ البَرْقُ الظَّلَامَ (tropical:)  [The lightning penetrated through the darkness]. (A, TA.) b4: خَاضَ إِلَيْهِ الرِّمَاحَ حَتَّى أَخَذَهُ (tropical:)  [He forced his way to him through the spears until he took him, or it]. (A, TA. *) b5:  خَاضَ القَوْمُ فِى الحَدِيثِ, (S, A,) and فِيهِ ↓ تخاوضوا, (S, A, K,) (tropical:)  The people, or company of men, entered [or waded] together into discourse. (S, A, K.) b6:  خَاضَ الغَمَرَاتِ, (S, K,) aor. as above, inf. n. خَوْضٌ, (TA,) (tropical:)  He plunged into the submerging floods of ignorance, or the like; syn. اِقْتَحَمَهَا. (S, K, TA.) b7:  خَاضَ فِىالأَمْرِ (assumed tropical:)  He entered [or plunged] into the affair. (Msb.) b8:  In like manner you say, [خَاضَ فِىالبَاطِلِ and] البَاطِلَ ↓ اخاض (assumed tropical:)  He entered [or plunged] into false, or vain, discourse or speech: (Msb:) and خَاضَ, alone, signifies (tropical:)  He said, or spoke, what was false. (A.) It is said in the Kur [lxxiv. 46], (TA,) وَكُنَّا نَخُوضُ مَعَ الخَائِضِينَ, i. e. فِى البَاطِلِ (tropical:)  [And we used to enter into false, or vain, discourse or speech, with those who entered thereinto]; (Bd, Jel, K;) syn. نَشْرَعُ: (Bd:) or and we used to follow the erring, &c. (O, K.) And again, [lii. 12,] الَّذِينَ هُمْ فِىخَوْضٍ يَلْعَبُونَ (tropical:)  [Who amuse themselves in entering into false, or vain, discourse or speech]; (TA;) فى الباطل being here, again, understood. (Bd.) And again, [ix. 70,] وَخُضْتُمْ كَالَّذِى خَاضُوا, i. e. كَخَوْضِهِمْ (tropical:)  [And ye have entered into false, or vain, discourse or speech, like their entering thereinto]. (K.) And again, [vi. 67,] الَّذِينَ يَخُوضُونَ فِى آيَاتِنَا (tropical:)  [Who enter into false, or vain, discourse or speech respecting our signs; meaning the Kur-án]. (TA.) خَاضَ فِيهِ is also explained as signifying (assumed tropical:)  He said what was false respecting it. (TA.) And خَوْضٌ signifies (assumed tropical:)  The confusing, or confounding, in an affair. (TA.) b9:  خَاضَ, (S, A, Mgh, K,) and ↓ خوّض, (A, TA,) also signify He mixed, (S, * K, TA,) and stirred about, (TA,) the beverage, or wine: (S, K, TA:) or he stirred about the سَوِيق with the مِخْوَض. (A, Mgh. *) b10:  خَاضَهُ بِالسَّيْفِ (tropical:)  He moved about the sword in him, having smitten him: (S, K, * TA:) or he put [or thrust] the sword into the lower part of his belly, and then raised it upwards. (A, * TA.) b11:  خُضْتُ بِقِدْحٍ فِى القِدَاحِ, (A, TA,) inf. n. خِيَاضٌ; and القِدَاحَ ↓ خَاوَضْتُ, inf. n. خِوَاضٌ; (TA;) (tropical:)  I put an arrow, (A, TA,) which I had borrowed, and by which I expected to have good luck, (TA,) among the [other] arrows (A, TA) used in the game called el-meysir: (TA:) see an ex. (a verse of Sakhr-el-Gheí) in art. خض.2 خَوَّضَ see 1, first signification: b2:  and again in the latter part of the paragraph. b3:  خَوَّضَ فِىنَجِيعِهِ [app. meaning He wallowed in his effused blood] is with teshdeed to render the signification intensive. (S.) 3 خَاْوَضَ see 1, second sentence, in two places: and again in the last sentence.4 أَخَضْتُ فِى المَآءِ دابَّتِى [I made my beast to wade, or ford, through the water]. (S, A. *) اخاض القَوْمُ خَيْلَهُمُ المَآءَ [The people, or company of men, made their horses to wade, or ford, through the water] is said when they wade, or ford, with their horses through the water. (TA.) اخاض القَوْمُ: and اخاضوا المَآءَ: [which are evidently elliptical phrases:] and اخاض الفَرَسَ: see 1, second sentence. b2:  اخاض البَاطِلَ: see 1.A2:  اخاض المَآءُ The water admitted of being walked [or waded or forded] in or through: contr. to general rule; being intrans. while the unaugmented verb is trans. (Msb.) 5 تَخَوَّضَ see 1, first sentence. b2:  تخوّض also signifies He constrained himself to wade, or ford, in, or through, water. (K, * TA.) This is the primary signification: and hence, b3:  تخوّض فِى الأَمْرِ (tropical:)  He employed, or occupied, himself in the affair: and he used art or artifice or cunning, or his own judgment or discretion, in the affair, or in the disposal or management thereof: and so in the phrase تخوّض فى المَالِ: or, accord. to some, this means he acted wrongly in acquiring the property in an improper manner, in whatsoever way it was possible. (TA.) 6 تَخَاْوَضَ see 1, near the middle of the paragraph.8 إِخْتَوَضَ see 1, first sentence.مَخَاضٌ: see مَخَاضَةٌ.مِخْوَضٌ [The instrument with which beverage, or wine, is mixed and stirred about]; it is, for beverage, or wine, like the مِجْدَح for سَوِيق: (S, K:) or the instrument with which سويق is stirred about. (A, Mgh.) مَخَاضَةٌ [A ford; i. e.] a place where people pass through water, walking or riding: (S, A, K:) or a place where one walks through water: (Msb:) pl. ↓ مَخَاضٌ, (S, K,) [or this is rather a coll. gen. n.,] or مَخَائِضُ, (as in one copy of the S,) and مَخَاوِضُ (Az, S, K) and مَخَاضَاتٌ. (Msb, TA.)