خَرِيطَةٌ
Root: خرط
Full Definition
2 Also A thing likened thereto, which is made for the letters of the sultán, and of prefects, or agents, to be sent therein.
3 Also A similar thing [which was formerly, in the time of paganism,] put upon the head of the she-camel [that was] confined [to perish] at the tomb of a dead person.
4 [Also The pod, or oblong capsule or pericarp, of sesamum and the like: pl. as above. Used in this sense by writers on botany, and in the spoken language of the present day.]
5 See also بِدَادٌ.
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