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دُوَايَةٌ

Root: دوى

Full Definition

دُوَايَةٌ A thin skin, a substance that resembles the pellicle of the egg, that overspreads the surface of milk and of broth and of [the kind of pottage called] هَرِيسَة and the like when the wind blows upon it; as also دِوَايَةٌ .
2 And in, or upon, the teeth, A greenness.
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