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سَنِينٌ

Root: سن

Full Definition

سَنِينٌ : see مَسْنُونٌ, in two places.
2 Also What flows [upon, or from, the whetstone] on the occasion of sharpening iron [or a knife or the like], and which is always stinking. And What falls from a stone when one rubs, or grates, it upon another stone.

def.2 See also سِنٌّ, in the latter half of the paragraph.
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