مَسْنُونٌ

Root: سن

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مَسْنُونٌ [Bitten with the teeth: whence, app., what next follows]. You say أَرْضٌ مَسْنُونَةٌ and سَنِينٌ meaning Land of which the herbage has been eaten.
2 Sharpened, or whetted, or made sharp-pointed, and polished; as also سَنِينٌ ; applied to a knife or thing [of any kind]. Made smooth. Formed, fashioned, or shaped. Made long. You say وَجْهٌ مَسْنُونٌ A face in which is length, without breadth; (مَخْروُطٌ;) smooth and even; or smooth and long; or long, and not high in the ball; or soft, tender, thin, and even; as though the flesh were ground (سُنَّ [like as a thing is ground in sharpening and polishing]) from it. And رَجُلٌ مَسْنُونُ الوَجْهِ A man beautiful and smooth in the face: or a man in whose nose and face is length: or beautiful and long in the face. مِنْ حَمَأ مَسْنُونٍ, in the Kur [xv. 26 and 28 and 33], means [Of black mud] altered [for the worse in odour]; in which sense مَسْنُون is also applied to water; [or] stinking: from سَنَنْتُ الحَجَرَ عَلَى الحَجَرِ “ I rubbed, or grated, the stone upon the stone; ” what flows between them, termed سَنِين, being always stinking: or, accord. to I'Ab, it means moist: accord to AO, poured forth: or, as some say, poured forth in a form, or shape: or formed, fashioned, or shaped: or poured forth in order to its drying [or hardening], and becoming formed, fashioned, or shaped, like as molten, or liquified, substances are poured forth into moulds.

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