رَعَّادٌ

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رَعَّادٌ [That thunders much]. سَحَابَةٌ رَعَّادَةٌ signifies A cloud that thunders much: but Ks says, “ We have not heard them say thus. ”
2 [Hence,] applied to a man, Loquacious; and so رَعَّادَةٌ [but in an intensive sense].
3 Also, [as a coll. gen. n., n. un. with ة, The torpedo: and the silurus electricus, found in the Nile: generally meaning the latter:] a certain fish; when a man touches it, a numbness affects his hand and arm to the shoulders, and a tremour, as long as the fish remains alive: so called because he who lays hold upon it, when it is alive, trembles with a kind of trembling wherewith he cannot restrain himself; it is a kind of trembling with a coldness, or chilness, and intense numbness, and formication in the limbs, and heaviness, so that he possesses no power over himself, and cannot lay hold of anything at all with his hand; the numbness rising by degrees to his upper arm and his shoulderblade and the whole of his side, when he touches the fish with the slightest touch in the shortest time.

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