ثَائِبٌ

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ثَائِبٌ A well into which water returns after one has drawn from it; see مَثَابٌ; and in like manner, [but in an intensive sense in the second of the following phrases,] بِئِرٌ لَهَا ثِيبٌ , and ذِاتُ وَعِيبٍ [in which وعيب is an epithet]: or the first of these three phrases means a well of which the water stops sometimes, and then returns. You say of a well (بئر), مَا أَسْرَعَ ثَائِبَهَا How quick is its returning supply of water!
2 ثَائِبُ البَحْرِ The water of the sea when it flows after ebbing. Hence, كَلَأٌ مِثْلُ ثَائِبِ البَحْرِ Fresh, sappy, [green,] herbage.
3 قَوْمٌ لَهُمْ ثَائِبٌ A people, or number of men, who come company after company.
4 ثَائِبٌ also signifies A violent wind that blows at the beginning of rain.

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