أَصَلَةٌ
Root: اصل
Full Definition
أَصَلَةٌ
: see أَصِيلَةٌ.
def.2 Also A kind of serpent, the most malignant, or noxious, of serpents: or a serpent, short, (M, [where, in the only copy to which I have access, I find added, كَالرِئَةِ, app. a mistranscription, for كَالرُّمَّةِ, like the fragment of a rope,]) or small, red, but not intensely red, very deadly, of the most malignant, or noxious, kind, having one leg, upon which it stands, then turns round, then springs, that springs upon a man, and blows, killing everything upon which it blows: or, as some say, a great serpent, that kills by its blowing: or one of the very crafty kinds of serpents, short and broad, said to be like the shaft of an arrow, and it springs upon the horseman: pl. أَصَلٌ , [or rather this is a coll. gen. n.,] and [pl. of pauc.] آصَالٌ.
2 [Hence, app.,]
def.2 Also A kind of serpent, the most malignant, or noxious, of serpents: or a serpent, short, (M, [where, in the only copy to which I have access, I find added, كَالرِئَةِ, app. a mistranscription, for كَالرُّمَّةِ, like the fragment of a rope,]) or small, red, but not intensely red, very deadly, of the most malignant, or noxious, kind, having one leg, upon which it stands, then turns round, then springs, that springs upon a man, and blows, killing everything upon which it blows: or, as some say, a great serpent, that kills by its blowing: or one of the very crafty kinds of serpents, short and broad, said to be like the shaft of an arrow, and it springs upon the horseman: pl. أَصَلٌ , [or rather this is a coll. gen. n.,] and [pl. of pauc.] آصَالٌ.
2 [Hence, app.,]
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