خَاضِبٌ

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خَاضِبٌ A man dyeing, or who dyes, his hair with hinnà.
2 See also خَضِيبٌ.
3 Also A male ostrich whose shanks and legs have become red, or green, [app. meaning of a dark, or an ashy, dustcolour,] or yellow, in consequence of his lusting after the female, or in consequence of his having eaten the [herbage termed] رَبِيع: or the front edges of whose shanks have become red, or green, or yellow, in consequence of his having eaten the [herbage termed] ربيع: or whose beak and shanks have become red from his having eaten the [herbage termed] ربيع: in the summer (الصَّيْف) he becomes bald (يقرع), and his shanks become white: or whose shanks have become green by reason of lust in the [season termed] ربيع: accord. to some, it is applied only to the male ostrich: but some explain it without this restriction; and Lth mentions [the fem.] خَاضِبَةٌ as applied to an ostrich: [it is said that] the skin of the neck, and that of the breast, and that of the thighs, of the male ostrich, but not his feathers, become intensely red when he lusts after the female: or, as some say, خاضب signifies an ostrich that has eaten green food: or the extremities of whose feathers are dyed by [the eating of] blossoms, and the slender parts of whose legs have become red by the same cause: accord. to an Arab of the desert, supposed to be Aboo-Kheyreh, in the [season termed] ربيع, when it eats أَسَارِيع [app. meaning certain worms so called], its legs and beak assume the red hue of the عُصْفُر [or safflower]: or خاضب is applied to a male ostrich the slender parts of whose legs become red when the dates begin to become red, and cease to be so when the redness of the dates ceases: so that it is not from eating اساريع, which, it is said, no ostrich is known to eat: accord. to As, the cause [of the redness above mentioned] is only the dye of blossoms; but were it so, the bird would also become yellow, and green, &c., [and some assert that it partially does, as has been shown above,] accord. to the colours of the blossoms and herbs; and the green colour would predominate: [but, as the Arabs say, this requires consideration:] whatever be the cause, the bird, it is said, is termed خاضب on account of the redness that affects its shanks: and this word is [said to be] an epithet used as a proper name of the bird: but this is a mistake, unless it mean that, because of its prevailing application, it is used in the same manner as الحٰرِثُ and العَبَّاسُ, not that it may be used [in a determinate sense] without the article ال: the pl. is خَوَاضِبُ. It is also said to be applied as an epithet to Any animal that eats خَضْب [q. v.]: and particularly to [the species of bovine antelope called] the wild bull (الثَّوْرُ الوَحْشِىُّ).
4 [See also a saying of Dukeyn cited voce رَاوُوقٌ.]

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