مُشَذَّبٌ

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مُشَذَّبٌ A palm-trunk pared of its prickles [or of the stumps of its branches or of its lower branches: see the verb of which it is the pass. part. n.].
2 Tall; as also شَوْذَبٌ ; the former as an epithet applied to a horse, from the same epithet as applied to a palm-trunk: and tall, and goodly in make; and so شَوْذَبٌ ; as though pruned: and ↓ the latter, applied to anything [meaning any animal], tall, and excellent or of high breed or strong and light and swift: A 'Obeyd says that the former signifies excessively tall, and is applied in this sense to anything [i. e. a man and any animal]: Kt says, after explaining شَذَّبْتُ المَالَ as it has been expl. above, that he who is excessively tall is as though his frame were disconnected, and not compact; and therefore he is thus termed: but IAmb says that Kt has made a mistake in asserting that this epithet signifies tall, conspicuous for tallness, and that it is from the palm-tree from which the branches have been lopped off, and that he who is conspicuous for tallness is not thus called unless somewhat deficient in flesh: it is applied to a horse as meaning tall, and not very fleshy.

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