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غَلَثَ

Root: غلث

Form: 1

Full Definition

غَلَثَI , Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun غَلْثٌ, which is like عَلْثٌ in its meanings, for the most part, He mixed one thing with another; as wheat with barley.

def.2 غَلَثَ السِّقَآءَ: see عَلَثَ, with the unpointed ع.

def.3 غَلِثَ, [Present.T ـَ] Verbal.Noun غَلَثٌ, [like عَلِثَ,] He fought vehemently. And غَلِثَ بِهِ He kept, or clave, to him, fighting him. [And perhaps, as may be inferred from an explanation of مُغَالِثٌ, one says in like manner , or غالث بِهِ; to which latter, Golius assigns a meaning similar to this, or to that which here next follows, as on the authority of J; but I do not find it in the S.] And غَلِثَ الذِّئْبُ بِالغَنَمِ [like عَلِثَ] The wolf kept to the sheep, or goats, seizing them, and breaking their necks.

def.4 And غَلِثَ, Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun غَلَثٌ, said of a زَنْد, It failed to produce fire; as also . [See also 1 in art. علث.]

def.5 And غَلِثَ said of a bird, It vomited from its crop something which it had swallowed.
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