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مَائِحٌ

Root: ميح

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مَائِحٌ A man who descends into a well and fills the bucket, when its water is little: pl. مَاحَةٌ. The مَاتِح is he who draws the water from the mouth of the well.
2 مَائِحٌ A tooth-stick; syn. سِوَاكٌ: so called because it draws away the saliva, like as he who descends into a well ladles out the water: and so مَيْحٌ .
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