BOOK I.]

(Idem, p. 730.) It is also said, on the authorityof Lth, to signify Water: and he cites as an ex.,

* · Jj ,

[l7ou seest, or wilt see, his company of riders atthe water in the midst of a desert]: but AM says,I know not o.:jl in the sense of "water," norknow I what it is. (TA.) , "S l; is an ex-pression of regret, (El-Ahmar, Ks, TA,) or ofwonder, (g, TA,) [or of both,] meaning [OA ! or]O my wonder ! (Ks, Lb, TA.) One says, I. t1

.. , (El-Abmar, , L, Ks, L , ) and J t .i. e. with and without o, (Ks, TA,) and C s,u I

J, (LI, K,) or J LI I. t, and L b. l ,(El-A4mar, Ks, TA,) neither of these two with., (Ks,TA,) [meaning Oh! or O my wonder What has happened to me ?] in all of these, (Ks,TA,) Lt being in the place of a noun in the nom.case. (Ks, Lh., TA.) - Some also say, %s &'

and .a 1 and j X', and some add t;, saying,

s5 it and ; u' Q and & j QI, meaningHIow good, or beautiful, is this! (Ks, TA.)

Zi , [Will, wish, or desire, a subst. from ;lt,(Lb, $,) [and] so is t Z;*. [which is mentioned

in the 15 as an inf. n.]. (Msb.) One says, .- a1 :, (E;, j,) i. e. t "· [Eyrthing

i by the will of God]. (..)

and , and aSJ. or :5or : see :in the middle of the paragraph.

: ek and X s;: see art. l.

4il dim. of /' : seo ;i., in the latter partof the former half of the paragraph.

aw: seBe :, in two places: and see also

:; , near the beginning of the paragraplh.

Incongruous, unound, (K, TA,) foul, orugly, (TA,) in make, orformation. (1, TA. [SeeIlIam p. 192.]) - And accord. to Aboo-Sa'eed,A child born preposterously, the legs coming forthbefore the armt. (TA.)

1. t, aor. ,, inf. n. ~ and ;: (M 9b,

TA) and ,v's, (TA,) He became wvhite-haired, or hoary. (MYb, TA.) And ,1t&j, (S,) and l-,, (Myb, TA,) inf. n. and a":, (S,) hIis head, and her itad, becamewhite, or hoary. (8, Msb, TA.) - [Hence,]

.ibS3l ,j~3 ~t:l I [The heads,.or summits, ofthe hills became white, or hoary]. (A.) - And

W,sljl .s It whitened the head: so exp!. byISk as used in the following saying, (6,) ascribedby J to 'Adee, but it is of 'Abeed Ibn-El-Abra4 :(IB, TA:)

0

0i,1 b= y

t 1 ~4 W *1*£ ~ I g J 3J t

[l7ou inclinest to silly and youtlful conduct: butwhnae comet/h to thee t/)e inclining to such con.

duct mlwhn oariness, or the entering upon theperiod of woariness, hath whitened te lhead?].(S,. IB, TA.) [See also 2.]

2. e',1u ,4, (Ks, S, A,) and ij.ii

&"1;, and lj, (Ks, S, Mgb, 1,) which last isa strange phrase, as it exhibits together two meansby which a verb is rendered trans., [namely, thedoubling of the medial radical letter of the verband the introduction of the prep. ,,] (TA,) Griefrendered him white-headed, or 1hoary-headed; (Ks,S, A, Msb, 1 ;) as also * "jtl, (A,) and ? l

_1; and AwW. (Ks, S, Mob, .K.0)

4. .,l, said of a man, iie had children thathad become white-headed, or hoary. ($, TA.) -See also the next preceding paragraph, in twoplaces.

The hair (1, TA) itself: sometimes it isthus called: (TA:) [but app. only when white,or hoary; in which sense it is often used; as inthe TA in arts. "& and ~ &c. :] or (I, TA,in the C]5 "and") whiteness of the hair, orhoariness; (A,1g,TA;) as also V.~.: (1,TA:) both signify the same [and are thus used assimple substs. and are also inf. ns.]: ( :) or theformer has the latter of the two significationsgiven above; (A4, S, Mgh, Mb ;) and is littleand much [whitenes of tle hair]: one says,

11 aLs [Whiteness of the hair, or hoarine,came upon him]: (TA:) but signifies aman's entering upon the period of whtiness ofthe hair, or hoariness: (As, 6, Msb :) see an ex.of this latter in the first paragraph. In the phrase

in the lur [xix. 3], lt ,l, ljl ja~L, (S,) mean-ing And whiteness of the hair of the head hathspread therein like as the radiance of fire spreadsin firemood, (Jel,) [or the head has becomeglistening mwith hiteness of tht hair, or hoarines,]

: is in the accus. case as a specificative: or,accord. to Akh, as an inf. n., as thougll it were

said lt ,W5!1 .$ (S, TA.*)

, of a whip, a genuine Arabic word of well-known meaning; (S;) The thong (15, TA) atthe upper ztremity (TA) of a whip: (15, TA:)there are two of such thongs, called Ae:-. (TA.)- Also A word imitative of the sounds made by

the lips of camels (, ) in drinhing. (S.) - And

pl. of ,4 [q. v.]. (S, ]g, &c.)

a pl. of which the sing. is doubted: seel.

a" an inf. n. of 1 [q. v.]. (S, Msb.) - Andaccord. to El-1hafGjee, A wrhite, or /hoary, beard:but MF says that this is a conventional post-classical meaning. (TA.)1 [Also, in the presentday, applied to A species of artemis/a; (ForskAl'sFlor. Aegypt. Arab., p. lxxiii., no. 439;) theartemisia arborescens of Linn.: (Dclile's Flor.Aegypt. Illustr., no. 799:) - and Lichen;(Forslal ubi supra ;) the liclhn prunastri of Linn.(Delile, ib., no. 976t.) And .al,J a.' Lichenscyphifer. (Forskil, p. lxxviii., no. 559.)]

.: pee p ; near the end of the paragraph:- and see also the paragraph here following.

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:,,%, and , (S, A,) thus in a verse ofEl-Kumeyt, as related by Ibn-Selemeh, withkesr to the ., and ., (S,) or the former word iswritten t it, and sometimes X ", and thclatter is as above, (15,) and sometimes JtjS,(TA,) t The two montul of winter; (A, TA;)[as though moaning the second of tihe Six Seaons,commencing two months after the autumnalequinox; (see the former of the two tables in p.1254 ;)] i q. .t3 it , (S, A, 1, TA,) which arethe two coldest ,month; (S, T, TA;) so calledbecause of the earth's being then wlhite with snowand hoar frost; (S, TA;) falling at the period ofthe [auroral] rising of tiw Scorpion and the

Vulture, (qiaJI and jJI, [by which latter is

meant ei4lj ,; I, i. e. the star a of Lyra,])

mid by hin who hows not to be the two Kdnoons

[i. e. J, 31X and l jlt3Sa, correspondingto December and January O.S.]: (TA:) [itappears that they nearly agree with the twoKanoons; for El-lazweenee and others say that

.iWI (i. c. the heart of the Scorpion, which isthe 18th of the Mansions of the Moon,) and

,3j, ,iJ1 rise together, and their auroral risingin Ceptral Arabia, about the commencement ofthe era of the Flight, accord. to my calculation,(see t, ,ji). in art. j,;,) was on the 25th ofNovember 0.S.: see also , and t:

it is also said that] X [used alone] is a nameof [the month] JJ'l ;1 jlS, because of the white-ness of the earth by reason of the hoar-frost andsnow. (Mgh.)

.,tz and ile: [the former erroneously written

by Golius 14']: see 4., in art. ~,.

.,.e:: see .

l:i [Being, or becoming, whitehaired, or

hoary]: see 1'll.. ; .1 is a phrase like

,;s J;, (S,) or like k : L a: it means Intsevwhiteness of the hair. (TA.)

4.IV Whitehaired, white-headed, or hoary:(S,A, Mgh, Mhb,]5:) [it is said to be] anomalousin form; (S, Mgh, Msb;) for an epithet of thismeasure is only formed [by rule] from a verb ofthe measure J., aor. j.; ($, TA;) and it isa condition of the formation of such an epithetthat it must denote a defect or the like, or acolour: but N.1 signifies white-headed, or hoar!-headed; [so that it does denote a colour;] and El-Khafajee says that it is reckoned among epithets

denoting defects, or blemishes, like t.cl and.l: (MF, TA:) it is said in the 1 that it has

no oS.m, i. e., (TA,) the epithet lt.: is not applied

to a woman; (Msb, TA ;) Ul., being used in its

stead; (TA;) thouglh one says 1 ; : (M.hb,

TA:) [but see .Har p. 418, where lC.Ct is men-tioned, applied to a woman, as meaning aged, androwhite, or hoarty, in the head: and see lIe in art.", :] the pl. is ; (S, A, Mgh, Mqb, ;)

with which is syn. ,; (TA, as from the K;[but not found by me in the copies of the .1 to

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