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خَيَطٌ

Root: خيط

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خَيَطٌ Length of the neck of an ostrich, and of the [bones, such as are termed] قَصَب thereof: or, as some say, a constant mixture of blackness with whiteness therein: or their being in an uninterrupted line, like an extended خَيْط [or thread].
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