سَلِيخَةٌ

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سَلِيخَةٌ A certain perfume, or odoriferous substance, resembling bark stripped off, and having شُعَب [or forking projections].
2 Of the [plants called] رِمْث and عَرْفَج, [Such as has been stripped of what was good for pasture;] the portion that has in it nothing for pasture remaining; consisting only of dry wood: and of the عرفج, such as is thick, of what has become dried up.
3 And The oil of the fruit, or produce, of the بَان [or bentree] before it has been seasoned with aromatics: when it has been seasoned with musk and [other] perfume, and then expressed, it is termed مَنْشُوشٌ; and one says of it, نُشَّ. Also Offspring: because it has been drawn out (سُلِخَ i. e. نُزِعَ) from the belly of its mother.

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