حَدَمَةٌ

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حَدَمَةٌ Fire: and the sound of fire: or the sound of the flaming, or blazing, of fire; as also حَمَدَةٌ.
2 The sound of the belly of the serpent, or, as some say, of the species of serpent termed أَسْوَد: or the rustling sound of the skin of the serpent, caused by rubbing one part thereof against another; as though it were the confused and continued sound of a thing مُحْتَدِم [i. e. flaming, or boiling].
3 The purring of a eat: likened to the sound of flaming, or blazing.

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