عَقِيقٌ
Root: عق
Full Definition
2 And [hence] Any channel which the water of a torrent has cloven of old and made wide: and a valley: pl. أَعِقَّةٌ and عَقَائِقُ. And عَقَائِقُ signifies also Pools of water in cleft furrows: and some say, red sands.
3 See also عَقِيقَةٌ, in two places.
def.2 Also [Carnelian;] a species of فُصُوص [or stones that are set in rings]; a sort of stone, or red خَرَز [meaning precious stones], of which فُصُوص are made; existing in ElYemen, near to Esh-Shihr, said by Et-Teefáshee to be brought from mines thereof at San'à, and on the shores of the Sea of Roomeeyeh; one kind thereof is of a turbid appearance, like water running from salted flesh-meat, and having in it faint white lines, and this, Et-Teefáshee says, is what is known by the appellation الرطبى [so in my original]; the best kind is the red; then, the yellow; then, the white; and the other kinds are bad: or, as some
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