خَصِيفٌ

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خَصِيفٌ : see خَصْفٌ.
2 A thing in which are united any two colours. See also 2. And see أَخْصَفُ in two places. [Hence,] Ashes; because there are two colours therein, blackness and whiteness: but one says more commonly رَمَادٌ خَصِيفٌ, using the latter word as an epithet. And كَتِيبَةٌ خَصِيفٌ, or كتيبة خَصِيفَةٌ, [A body of troops] having two colours, having the colour of iron and another colour: or so called because of the rust of the iron &c.: or the former phrase means, as some say, followed by horsemen; and therefore the epithet is without ة, because it has the signification of a pass. part. n.: for were it to denote the colour of the iron, they had said خَصِيفَةٌ, because it would in this latter case have the signification of an act. part. n.
3 Also Fresh milk upon which is poured رَائِب [i.e. curdled, or thick, or churned, milk]: if dates and clarified butter are put into it, it is [termed] عَوْبَثَانِىٌّ.

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