Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

صَدِيدٌ

Root: صد

Full Definition

صَدِيدٌ an Verbal.Noun of صَدَّ [q. v.] in one of its senses.

def.2 Also The ichor, i. e. thin water, [or watery humour,] of a wound, mixed [or tinged] with blood, before the matter becomes thick: or matter, or pus, like water, in which is a mixture of red and white: or matter, or pus, like water in thinness and like blood in its having a mixture of red and white: and some add that when it has thickened, it is مِدَّة: or matter, or pus, mixed with blood, in a wound. In the Kur xiv. 19, it means What flows from the skins of the inmates of Hell: or what flows from their insides, and is mixed with matter and blood: or hot water (حَمِيمٌ) boiled until it thickens.
2 And hence, as being likened thereto, صَدِيدُ الفِضَّةِ i. e. ذُوَابَتُهَا [app. meaning What is melted of silver].


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