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الحست

Root: لحس

Form: 4

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الحستIV The land produced plants, or herbage: or began to produce leguminous plants: or produced the first of the herbage, so that the beasts saw it and desired it and licked it, not being able to eat of it anything: or produced what the beasts of carriage might lick or eat (مَا تَلْحَسُهُ): or [became in such a state that] the beasts of carriage licked or ate (لَحَسَتْ) its plants, or herbage.

def.2 الحس المَاشِيَةَ He pastured the camels or sheep or goats with the least pasturing.
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