إِسْحِلٌ
Root: سحل
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إِسْحِلٌ
A kind of trees, resembling the [species of tamarisk called] أَثْل, and growing in the places where the [trees called] أَرَاك
grow, in plain, or soft, tracts: its twigs are used for cleaning the teeth: and Imra-el-Keys likens the fingers of a woman to tooth-sticks (مَسَاوِيك) thereof. It is [said to be] a word that has no parallel in form except إِذْخِرٌ and إِجْرِدٌ and إِبْلِمٌ and إِثْمِدٌ.
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