فصِيلٌ

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فصِيلٌ A young camel when weaned from his mother: and some times such a young one of the bovine kind: [and by a proleptic application,] a young camel [in a general sense], because he is, or will be, weaned from his mother: [in the T, voce حُوَارٌ, and in other lexicons &c., it is applied to a young, newly-born, camel: and in the L, voce سُخْدٌ, to a fœtus in a she-camel's belly: see an ex. of its meaning a young sucking camel in the first paragraph of art. رجل; and a strange similar usage of the first of the following pls. in a verse cited voce خَسْفٌ:] the pl. is فُصْلَانٌ, agreeably with rule, and فِصْلَانٌ, formed by likening the sing. to غُرَابٌ, of which غِرْبَانٌ is a pl., and فِصَالٌ, as though it were an epithet, like كَرِيمٌ, of which كِرَامٌ, is a pl.: and the female is termed فَصِيلَةٌ.
2 Also A حَائِط [or wall of enclosure], having little height, before, or in front of, a fortress; or before, or in front of, the [main] wall of a city or town. One says, وَثَّقُوا سُورَ المَدِينَةِ بِكِبَاشٍ وَفَصِيلٍ [They strengthened the wall of the city by means of buttresses and a low wall in front of it].
3 And A piece of stone; of the measure فَعِيلٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ.

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