أَصْبَغُ

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أَصْبَغُ A horse white in the forelock, all of it: (AO, Mgh: [see also أَسْعَفُ:]) or white in the extremities of his tail: or white in the extremities of the ear: when the whiteness is in his tail, he is termed أَشْعَل: or, accord. to AO, it signifies also white in the whole of the tail, including its extremities. And A bird white in the tail: or, accord. to the book entitled “ Ghareeb el-Hamám ” by El-Hasan Ibn-' Abd-Allah ElIsbahánee El-Kátib, white in the whole of the head; but used in the former sense by the keepers of pigeons. And [the fem.] صَبْغَآءُ A sheep or goat (شَاة, S, O, K) or a ewe white in the extremity of its tail, the rest of it being black.
2 Also A species of weak birds.
3 Also, One who voids his excrement in his clothes when he is beaten and when he is frightened: mentioned by Z.
4 And صَبْغَآءُ, A certain tree, or plant, (شَجَرَة,) like the ثُمَام [which is applied to several species of panic grass], having a white fruit, growing in sands: [but this seems to have been taken from three different explanations, here following:] accord. to Aboo-Ziyád, a certain tree, or plant, that grows in the sands, resembling the ضَعَة [which is applied to a species of the ثُمَام], which is one of the abodes of the gazelles in the hot season, lurking-places being excavated by them at its roots: accord. to another, of the Arabs of the desert, it is like the ثُمَام, but the ضَعَة is larger in the leaves, and of a brighter green: accord. to Aboo-Nasr, a certain tree, or plant, having a white fruit. And, as some say, A bunch of herbage, of which, when it comes up, the upper portions are green on the side next the sun, and white on the side next the shade.

def.2 Also (i. e. أَصْبَغ) The greatest of torrents. [In this sense, though used as a subst., it seems to be, as in other senses, imperfectly decl., being originally an epithet: if not originally an epithet, it might, accord. to some authorities, be perfectly decl.]

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