لُعَابٌ

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لُعَابٌ What flows from the mouth; slaver; drivel.
2 [Mucilage of plants. See S, art. لزج &c.]
3 لُعَابُ النَّخْلِ The honey of the date-palm.
4 لُعَابُ الشَّمْسِ A thing as though descending from the sky, at the time of the mid-day heat; what one sees in a time of intense heat, resembling cobwebs: [i. e. gossamer:] also said to be the سَرَاب, or mirage: it is what is called مُخَاطُ الشَّيْطَانِ, and سَهَامٌ, and رِيقُ الشَّمْسِ, resembling threads, seen in the air when the heat is intense and the air calm: and he who asserts the لعاب الشمس to be the سراب says what is false; for that is the سراب that is seen at mid-day resembling running water: only he knows these things who has been constantly in the deserts, and has journeyed during the mid-day heats. [In Egypt, in very hot and calm weather, I have seen, though very rarely, great quantities of the filmy substances above mentioned, resembling delicate and silky white cobwebs, generally of stringy forms, floating in the air.]

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