رَيْرٌ
Root: رير
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رَيْرٌ
and
رَارٌ and رِيرٌ Marrow in a melting or fluid state, and corrupt, by reason of emaciation: or thin: or corrupt, and in a melting or fluid state, by reason of emaciation: or in a melting or fluid and thin state, by reason of emaciation and severe dearth or drought: or what was fat, in the bones, and has become black and thin water.
2 رَيْرٌ also signifies The water that comes forth from the mouth of a child.
[And my shanks are such that the melting marrow, &c., in them is manifest] means my emaciation is manifest: the poet says باديات because by السّاق he means السَّاقَانِ; and it is allowable to make the enunciative of a dual like that of a pl.: accord. to one relation, it is بَارِدَاتُ.وَ السَّاقُ مِنِّى بَادِيَاتُ الرَّيْرِ
2 رَيْرٌ also signifies The water that comes forth from the mouth of a child.
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