خُمَالٌ
Root: خمل
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خُمَالٌ
Lameness: or, accord. to A 'Obeyd, a limping, or slight lameness, in the legs of camels, which is cured by cutting the vein: or a malady in the joints of a man, resembling lameness, and in the legs of a beast, a horse, a sheep or goat, and a camel, occasioning a limping, or slight lameness: or a malady that affects the horse, or the camel, in consequence of which he will not move until he has a vein cut; otherwise he dies: and also a malady that affects a leg of the sheep or goat, and then shifts to the other legs, going the round of them.
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