a. (fem. حالە) 1. That undoes; unties. 2. That melts or dissolves a substance. 3. That decomposes a compound substance. 4. Who analyzes chemically. 5. Who solves. 6. Who looses and sets free. 7. Who expiates a broken oath; also, that renders an oath no longer binding. 8. Who alights, halts, sojourns, or settles in a place. 9. (philos.) That which; united with the substance or essence, constitutes a material thing, i. e., the form and the attribute of a material thing. 10. Any thing or state that visits, occufies, pervades a person or thing. 11. (A beast for sacrifice) that arrives at an appointed or appropriate place of sacrifice. 12. (Punishment) which visits one; or which becomes merited. 13. Which becomes obligatory and incumbent. 14. Which is or becomes lawful. 15. Whose remarriage to a divorced wife has become lawful to him by her marriage to and divorce from another husband; also, whose wife is lawful to him. 16. (A pilgrim at Mekka) who quits his state of preclusion canonically, and returns to the ordinary conditions of life.