ذِئْبَةٌ

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ذِئْبَةٌ fem. of ذِئْبٌ.
2 Also The [angular] intervening space between the دَفَّتَانِ [or two boards] of the [kinds of saddle called] سَرْج and رَحْل and غَبِيط, beneath the place of juncture of the two curved pieces of wood; [or] what is beneath the fore part of the place of juncture of the two curved pieces of wood of the [kinds of saddle called] رَحْل and قَتَب and إِكَاف and the like; which falls, or lies, upon, or bites, or compresses, the part called the مَنْسِج of the beast. A poet says, وَقَتَبٌ ذِئْبَتُهُ كَٱلْمِنْجَلِ [And a قتب of which the ذئبة is like the reapinghook]. [See قَرَبُوسٌ.] Accord. to IAar, the [a coll. gen. n. of which ذِئْبَةٌ is the n. un.] of the [saddle called] رَحْل are The curved pieces of wood in the fore part thereof.

def.2 Also A certain disease of horses or similar beasts, that attacks them in their fauces; for which the root of the beast's ear is perforated with an iron instrument, and there are extracted from it small, white, hard nodous substances, like the grains of the [species of millet called] جَاوَرْس, or smaller than those grains.

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