عَرَّاصٌ

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عَرَّاصٌ Clouds (سَحَابٌ) having thunder and lightning: or having thunder and lightning, without which they are not thus called, in which the lightning is in commotion, or flickering, and which overshadow and approach so as to become like a roof: or of which the lightning does not cease: and that gleam, or glisten, much, with lightning: or that lighten at one time, and become concealed at another: or which the wind carries to and fro.
2 Lightning in a state of commotion, or agitation; quivering; flickering; as also عَرِصٌ and عَرْصٌ : or vehemently so, and vehement in its thunder: or that gleams, or glistens, much: or that lightens at one time, and becomes unapparent at another; as also عَرِصٌ and عَرْصٌ .
3 A pliant spear, that vibrates, or quivers, when shaken: and so applied to a sword: or, applied to a spear, it signifies of which, when it is shaken, the head glistens; from عَرِصَ البَرْقُ.

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