حظل doesn't appear in Hans Wehr's Modern Standard Arabic dictionary, but Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon has 2 entries for it, distinguished by diacritics. Select one below for the full classical Arabic definition.

• حَظَلَهُ Form 1

  1 حَظَلَهُ حظله حظلة , (Msb,) or حَظَلَ عَلَيْهِ, (S, K, TA,) aor. حَظُلَ (S, Msb, K) and حَظِلَ , (K,) inf. n. حَظْلٌ (S, Msb, K) and حِظْلَانٌ and حَظَلَانٌ, (K,) He forbade, prohibited, or interdicted, him, (S, Msb, K…

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• حَظِلٌ

  حَظِلٌ حظل A parsimonious man, who reckons with his family, or calls them to account, for what he expends upon them; as also (S, M, Sgh, K) and : (M, K:) which last also signifies [simply] niggardly, or avaricious. (TA.)…

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