A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature/מסכן - מסמס
מסכן II, מסכין to make poor, make contemptible. Koh. R. to IX, 16, v. preced. Ex. R. s. 1; Sot. 11a (play on מככנות, Ex. I, 11) בעליהן את שממסכנות (read; ביניהן) for they (the buildings) impoverish their builders; Yalk. Ex. 162 שמסכנות (corr. acc.). Cant. R. to I, 4 (play on משכני, ib.) [read;] נרוצה אחריך מסכניני make me (srael) poor, and we shall run atter thee (v. preced.). thpa. התמסכן, Nithpa. נתמסכן to become poor. Sot. l. c. מתמסן בבנין העוסק כל whoever makes building his business will get poor; Yeb. 63a; Ex. R. . c.; Yalk. Ex. . c.
מסכן, מסכנא, מסכי׳, מיס׳ m. ch. - h. מסכן I. Targ. Koh. IV, 13, sq. Targ. O. Deut. XV, 11; a. e. -- Y. B. Mets. II, 8a top מ׳ אינש a poor man. Y. Peah VII, 21b top; a. fr. -- Pl. מסכנין, מסכביא, מסכי׳, מי׳. Targ. Y. Deut. l. c. (not מסכנין). Targ. Prov. XXII, 7; a. e. -- Y. Peah l. c. למ׳ דפלג. . יהב gave his son Samuel money to distribute among the poor. Y. Hag. II, 77d bot.; Y. Snh. VI, 239 ייתון וכ׳ מ׳ let the poor come and eat it, that it may not go to ruin. Y. Sot. III, 19a; Y. Peah VIII, 21a bot. . . זכי יליף מ׳ מעשר . used to give him the tithes of the poor every third year; a. fr. - Denom.
מסכן, מסכין =מסכן II, to make poor, reduce. Targ. Ps. LVI, 8 (h. text הורד). Ib. XCIV, 5 (h. text ענה). Targ. Job VI, 9 (h. text דכא); a. e.
מסכנו, מסכנותא,מסכיי׳, מי׳ f.(preced.)pouerty. scarcity. Targ. O. Deut. VIII, 9 (ed. Vien. עצורין). Targ. Job V, 11 מי׳ אוכמי those black from starvation (h. text קדרים); a. e. - Lev. R. s. 35; Pesik. Shim u, p. 117a; Yalk. Lev. 670; Yalk. Is. 256 וכ׳ ליהידאי מ׳ יאי poverty is as ber- coming to Jews as a red line on a white horse; Lev. R. s. 13 מסכנותיה (read מסכינותא).
מסכנותא f. (preced.) making poor. Targ. Jud. XIV, 15. - [Targ. Ps. XXXIX, 12, v. מכסנותא]
מסכסכת. v. סבסך.
מסכת f. (b. h.; סכך I) 1) web on the loom. Ohol.VIII, 4 הפרוסה מ׳ he spread web, i. e. the web hanging from the transverse beam (vestis pendens, v. Sm. Ant. s. v. Tela). Kel. XXI, 1 המ׳ נפש the woof, opp. to עמד שתי the warp of the standing loom. Midr. Till. to Ps. XXXVIII; Yalk. Ps. 733 וכ׳ המ׳ אנו we are the web, and Thou the weaver; a. e. - 2) (cmp. Lat. textus) construction, lTalmudic treatise. Ruth R. to II, 9 (pplay on ויפך, II Sam. XXIII, 16) עששאה וכ׳ וקבעה מ׳ (not מסכתא) he (David) constructed it and fixed it as a rule for future generations that the king forces the road &c. (v. Snh. II, 4); Midr. Sam. ch. XX; Y. Snh. II, 20c top. Sabb. 114a, v. עלה; a. fr. -- Pl. מסכתות. Midr. Till. to Ps. CIV, 25 וכ׳ דבר המ׳ אלו those are the systematic collections of Bar t. &c. Num. R. s. 18 ששים מ׳ sixty Talmudic treatisesl[editions, however, count sixty- three]; Tanb. Korah 12; Cant. R. to VI, 9 (not תיות. . .); a. fr.
מסכתא ch. same, text, treatise &c. Snh. 49ab דפתיח במ׳ להו a legal subject had just been opened for them (for discussion, and he would not disturb them). Hor. 10b וכ׳ פלן מ׳ אוקימתון have you put up such and such a web, i. e. have you mastered this and that subject?
מסלה, v. מסילה.
מסליא m. (סלי) rejectable, drossy. Targ. Prov. XXVI, 23 מ׳ כספא (h. text סיגים כסף).
מסלסלה m. (v. סלסל) hair-dresser. Lam. R. to I, 15 (expl. סעה, ib.) [readנ] צווחין בערביא שכן במסרק סרקן מ׳ למסרוקה he combed them (carded their skins) with an (iron) comb, for in Arabia they call the hair-comber hair-curler.
מסמא, מסמה t. (סמא) closing a cavity, מ׳ אבן, v. אבן. Nidd. 69b מ׳ באבן when the apparent corpse lies on a stone under which there is a cavity; Sabb. 82b (Ms. M. מוסמא, v. Rabb. D. S, a. l. note). Sifra M'tsora, Zab., Par. 2, ch. III; a. fr.
מסמים, v. מסמס III.
מסמס I (v. מסס) to melt, dissolve. Nithpa. נתמסמס to be molten, to be in a state of dis-- solution or liguefaction. Hull. 45b, v. מזמז. Ib. 53b הבשר ׳ if (in one spot of an animal known to have been attacked by a beast of prey) the flesh appears decayed; ib. היכי נ׳ דמי what do you mean by 'decayed (Answ.) שחדופא כל וכ׳ what a physician would peel of, until he comes on sound fesh; ib. 77a מתמסמס. Y. Ter. VIII, 46a top ששניתמסמסו מעיה בני (a melon) the core of which is liquefied.
מסמס ch. same, 1) to melt, make faint. Targ.Y. Deut. I, 28 מסמיסו (not מסמיסן; h. text המסו). -- Y. Shek. V, 48b מעיא ממסמס חמר דין היי Bab. ed. (v.Rabb. D. S. a. l. p. 43; oth. ed. סמס; Ms. M. סמי) which wine loosens the bowels. - 2) to soil, make loathsome. Hull. 18a בפרתא ליה ממסמיס the authority soils the meat with dung, so that it can- not be sold &c. -- Part. pass. ממסמס. Ib. 28a קועיה ממ׳ כי דמא its throat stained with blood; ib. 53b. Ithpa. איתמסמס to be dissolved, melt aaway, perish. Targ. Job IX, 23 (h. text מסת).
מסמס II (cmp. משמש) 1) to press, squeeze. - Part. pass. ממוסמס mashed, shapeless. Num. R. s. 14 (play on משמרות, Koh. XII, 10)מרות הם ממוסמסים שהיוצאים בשעה וכ׳ when they (the words of the Law) come out disfigured, they are bitter (drops) to those who hear them; v. מס I; Y. Snh. X, 28a bot. - Nidd. 24a (מוסמסין) מוססמסים שפניו מי (= ממו׳) a foetus whose face is mashed, contrad. to טוחות, v. טוח I. -- 2) (cmp. אממו) to press, rge, esp. (of medical treatment) to sustain vital energies. Gen. R. s. 82 כך וכ׳ נפשה ממססמסין this is the way they stimulate the vital energy of the travailing woman; (Yalk. ib. 136 משיבין); Yalk. Is. 263 החיה את שמסמסין (corr. acc.).
מסמס ch. same, 1) to press, squeeze. Hull. 4a ממסבס מסמוסי ליה he holds the bird's head closely in his hand (so that no mark, if there was any on it, could be rec