رَقُوْءٌ
Root: رقأ
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رَقُوْءٌ
A styptic; or a thing that is put upon blood for the purpose of stanching it, or stopping its flowing: a subst. from رَقَأَ. Hence the saying, accord. to J, in a trad., but this is a mistake, for it is a saying of Aktham, or, accord. to the Expositions of the Fs, it was said by Keys Ibn-'Ásim El-Minkaree, لَا تَسُبُّوا الإِبِلَ فَإِنَّ فِيهَا رَقُوْءَ الدَّمِ [Revile not ye camels, or it may perhaps mean hock not ye camels, but the former, I am told, is here meant, for in them is a preventive of the flowing of blood]; alluding to their being given in compensation for homicide, and thus preventing the shedding of blood.
2 [Hence,] رَجُلٌ رَقُوْءٌ بَيْنَ القَوْمِ
2 [Hence,] رَجُلٌ رَقُوْءٌ بَيْنَ القَوْمِ
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