دَهِينٌ

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دَهِينٌ [Anointed with oil, &c.; i. q. مَدْهُونٌ and مَدْهُونَةٌ]. You say لِحْيَةٌ دَهِينٌ and دَهِينَةٌ and دَاهِنٌ , [the last, properly, a possessive epithet,] meaning مَدْهُونَةٌ [i. e. A beard anointed with oil, &c.].
2 And A hide intensely red. (JK. [See also دِهَانٌ.])

def.2 Also, applied to a she-camel, Having little milk: or having very little milk; not yielding a drop of milk when her dug is squeezed: accord. to Er-Rághib, having the meaning of an act. part. n., i. e. that yields as much as that with which one may anoint himself: or, as some say, having the meaning of a pass. part. n., because she is anointed [or as though she were anointed] with the milk, by reason of its scantiness; and this is the more probable, because it has not the affix ة: pl. دُهُنٌ.
2 And, applied to a stallion, That does not impregnate at all: as though because of the paucity of his seminal fluid.
3 And Weak; applied to a man, and to a thing: one says, أَتَيْتَ بِأَمْرٍ دَهِينٍ [Thou didst, or saidst, or thou hast done, or said, a weak thing]: and Ibn-Hiráweh says, لِيَنْتَزِعُوا تُرَاثَ بَنِى تَمِيمٍ لَقَدٌ ظَنُّوا بِنَا ظَنًّا دَهِينَا [In order that they might wrest the inheritance of the sons of Temeem, verily they have opined of us a weak opining].

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