خُرْثِىٌّ

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خُرْثِىٌّ The utensils and furniture of a house or tent: and the refuse, or the worthless or mean or vile articles, thereof; thus accord. to the lawyers: or bad furniture and utensils: or the worst thereof, and of spoils: or [rubbish,] such as a fragment of a bowl, and ashes, and [the dung that is termed] بَعْر, of a house: (AZ, TA in art. اسى:) [pl. خَرَاثِىٌّ.] You say, نَقَلُوا خُرْثِىَّ مَتَاعِهِمْ They removed the worthless articles of their furniture and utensils.
2 [Hence,] فُلَانٌ يَسْمَعُ خُرْثِىَّ الكَلَامِ Such a one hears language in which is no good. And أَلْقَى فُلَانٌ خَرَاثِىَّ and خَرَاثِىَّ قَوْلِهِ [Such a one cast forth the unprofitable things of his mind and the unprofitable things of his speech].

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