أَدْعَجُ

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أَدْعَجُ A man characterized by what is termed دَعَجٌ in the eyes: fem. دَعْجَآءُ: and pl. دُعْجٌ. And عَيْنٌ دَعْجَآءُ An eye so characterized.
2 Also Black; as an epithet applied to a man.
3 And A bull, [i. e.] a wild bull, and a he-goat, characterized by intense blackness of the horns, and of the head, and of the legs, and of the eyes, in the case of the he-goat.
4 شَفَةٌ دَعْجَآءُ and لِثَةٌ دَعْجَآءُ [A lip and a gum app. of a blue colour inclining to white].
5 لَيْلٌ أَدْعَجُ [A black, or an intensely black, night;] a dark, black night.
6 الدَّعْجَآءُ The first of [the three nights called] the مُحَاق; i. e. the twenty-eighth night: the second is called السَّرَارُ; and the third, الفَلْتَةُ.

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