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سُكٌّ

Root: سك

Full Definition

سُكٌّ A well narrow in its cavity, or interior, or from its top to its bottom, or in its aperture; as also سَكٌّ , and سَكُوكٌ : or a well even in its cavity, or interior, and in its casing: or, accord. to Fr, one well, or strongly, or compactly, cased, and narrow; the pl. of سُكٌّ is سِكَاكٌ; and the pl. of سَكُوكٌ is سُكٌّ, so that the latter is both a sing. and a pl.
2 And A narrow road: or a road stopped up: or a road narrow and stopped up.
3 See also سَكٌّ.
4 Also The hole of the scorpion, in the dial. of the BenooAsad; and of the spider, likewise, because of its narrowness.

def.2 Also A sort of perfume, prepared from رَامَك [q. v.], or from musk and رَامَك, the former being bruised, or pounded, sifted, kneaded with water, and wrung hard, and wiped over with oil of the خِيرِىّ [q. v.] in order that it may not stick to the vessel, and left for a night; then musk is pounded, or powdered, (يُسْحَقُ,) and put into it by degrees, and it is [again] wrung hard, and cut into small, round, flat pieces, and left for two days, after which it is perforated with a large needle, and strung upon a hempen string, and left for a year; and as it becomes old, its odour becomes the more sweet.

def.3 Also pl. of أَسَكُّ.
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