حَلِيفٌ

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حَلِيفٌ : see حِلْفٌ, in three places.
2 Whatever cleaves, clings, keeps, or holds fast, to another thing, is termed its حَلِيف: whence one says, فُلَانٌ حَلِيفُ الجُودِ [Such a one cleaves to liberality], &c. You say also, هُوَ حَلِيفُ السَّهَرِ, meaning He is sleepless.
3 حَلِيفُ اللِّسَانِ Sharp-tongued; chaste, or eloquent, in speech; who conforms to the desire of his companion, as though he were a confederate.
4 حَلِيفُ الغَرْبِ, in a poem of Sa'ideh Ibn-Ju-eiyeh, means A sharp spear-head, or a spear with a sharp head: or it means a brisk, lively, or sprightly, horse. Az says, سِنَانٌ حَلِيفٌ means A sharp spear-head: and I think that it is termed حليف because the sharpness of its point is likened to the sharpness of the points of [the grass called] حَلْفَآء.

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