رِمْثٌ
[A certain shrub, resembling a dwarftamarisk;] a certain pasture of camels;a species of tree [or shrub], of the kind termedحَمْض, growing in plain, or soft, ground,the leaves of which fall, [or droop], like theأُشْنَان [i. e. kali, or glasswort]; eagerly desired by the camels when they are satiated with, and tired of, the [sweet pasture termed] خُلَّة: it is a species of tree [or shrub] resembling that calledغَضًا, which does not grow tall, but the leaves of which spread, [app. meaning that its sprigs spread out flat, anddroop, like those of the common tamarisk,] and it resembles theأُشْنَان: like theغضاandاشنان, it is burned for makingقِلْى [or potash]: (TA &c. in art. قلى:) AHn says that it has long and slenderهَدَب [generally, and app. here, meaning sprigs garnished with minute leaves overlying one another like the scales of a fish], and is a pasture upon which camels and sheep or goats will live when they have nothing else with it; sometimes there comes forth upon it a white honey, [a species of manna,] resemblingجُمَان [i. e. pearls, or silver beads like pearls], very sweet; it affords firewood, and wood for other uses; its kindled firewood is hot; and its smoke is beneficial as a remedy for the rheum: AHn also says in one place, that, accord. to certain of the Basrees, theرمثoccupies the space of a man sitting, and grows in the manner of theشِيح [a species of wormwood]: also that he had been told by certain of [the tribe of] Benoo-Asad that it rises not so high as the stature of a man, and is used as firewood: [a coll. gen. n.:] the n. un. is with ة. [See a prov. cited voce ذُؤْنُونٌ, in art. ذأن.] 2 Also A man whose clothes are old and worn out: said by MF to be tropical, but not said to be so in the A. 3 And Weak in theمَتْن [i. e. the back, or the flesh on either side of the back-bone].
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