أَثْعَلُ

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أَثْعَلُ A man whose teeth are irregular in their places of growth, and overlying one another: or having superfluities in his teeth, and irregularity in their places of growth, so that they overlie one another: or having a tooth in excess, behind the other teeth: or having a tooth entering beneath another, being irregular in the place of growth: fem. ثَعْلَآءُ, applied to a woman; and also to a gum (لِثَةٌ): pl. ثُعْلٌ.
2 A portly, or corpulent, personage, or chief, characterized by superabundances of benificence, or bounty.

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