نَوُورٌ

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نَوُورٌ , or نَؤُورٌ, or both, the former being the original form, i. q. نِيلَجٌ [i. e. Indigo-pigment]; or نِيلَنْجٌ; [which appears from what follows to be the right reading, though both نيلج and نيلنج are used in the present day for the purpose described in explanations of نوور, to give a greenish colour to the marks made in tatooing;] i. e., the smoke [meaning the smokeblack] of fat, that adheres to the طَسْت, with which the punctures made in tatooing are dressed, or filled in, that they may become green; or with which the women of the Arabs of the time of ignorance tattooed themselves: i. q. غُنْجٌ [q v.]; or, accord. to to Lth, the smoke [or smoke-black] of the wick, used as a collyrium or for tatooing; but, [says Az,] I have not heard that the women of the Arabs used this as a collyrium in the time of ignorance nor in the time of El-Islám; their using it for tatooing, however, is mentioned in their poems: or lamp-black; the black pigment (نِقْس) prepared from the smoke of the lamp; used for tattooing.
2 Also, A kind of small stone, resembling إِثْمِد, which is bruised, or brayed, and then taken up, like as medicine is by the lip. [The same is found in the K, excepting that, in this latter lexicon, the explanation is less full, and اللِّثَةُ is substituted for الشَّفَةُ, the reading in the M.

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