رَضْفٌ
Root: رضف
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رَضْفٌ
Heated stones with which milk is made hot, or is made to boil; [and with which one cauterizes; and upon which flesh-meat is roasted; as shown above;] as also
: n. un. with ة. It is said in a prov., خُذْ مِنَ الرَّضْفِةِ
مَا عَلَيْهَا [Take thou from the heated stone what is upon it]: i. e. take thou what adheres, of the milk, to the heated stone when it is thrown, with others, therein, to make it hot, or to make it to boil: it is applied to the case of one's taking as spoil a thing from a niggard, though it be little, or paltry. [Hence,] مُطْفِئَةُ
الرَّضْفِ
A piece of fat which, when it falls upon the heated stones, melts, and extinguishes their heat: and a serpent of which the poison, when it passes by the heated stones, extinguished their fire: and a lean sheep or goat, that puts out the fire and does not become thoroughly cooked: (M, L, K, all in art. حدس:) or a fat sheep or goat, that slakes the heated stones by its fat: and
2 Also Certain bones in the knee, like fingers put together, holding together one another; above which is the دَاغِصَة [or patella]: (TA in art. دغص:) in a horse, what are between the shank and the arm: they are certain small bones, places together, at the head of the upper part of the ذراع [app. a mistranscription for كُرَاع, i. e. shank]: one thereof is termed رَضْفَةٌ and رَضَفَةٌ .
2 Also Certain bones in the knee, like fingers put together, holding together one another; above which is the دَاغِصَة [or patella]: (TA in art. دغص:) in a horse, what are between the shank and the arm: they are certain small bones, places together, at the head of the upper part of the ذراع [app. a mistranscription for كُرَاع, i. e. shank]: one thereof is termed رَضْفَةٌ and رَضَفَةٌ .
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