سِيلَانٌ

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سِيلَانٌ The سِنْخ [or tongue] of [meaning that enters into] the hilt, or handle, of a sword and of a knife and the like; the part, in the A the tail, that enters into the hilt, or handle, of a sword and of a knife: heard by A'Obeyd, though not from a learned man: but AA cites the following ex. from Ez-Zibrikán Ibn-Bedr: وَلَنْ أُصَالِحَكُمْ مَا دَامْ لِى فَرَسٌ وَٱشْتَدَّ قَبْضًا عَلَى السِّيلَانِ إِبْهَامِى [And I will not make peace with you while I have a horse and my thumb grasps firmly upon the tongue of the sword]. سَيَالٌ pl. of سَيَالَةٌ, [or rather the former is a coll. gen. n. of which the latter is the n. un., applied in the present day to A species of mimosa, or acacia, mentioned by Forskal in his Flora Aegypt. Arab., pp. lvi. and cxxiv., and by Delile in his Floræ Aegypt. Illustr. , no. 965: and to a species of thistle; carduus lacteus; or wild artichoke:] a species of trees having thorns, of the kind called عِضَاه: certain trees having white thorns: or the [thorny plant called] شَبَه: a certain plant; said to have white thorns, from which, when these are plucked, there issues what resembles milk: certain trees having lank branches and white thorns of which the bases resemble the middle pairs of the teeth of virgins: or, accord. to Aboo-Ziyád, tall سَمُر [or gum-acacia-trees]: accord. to the A, the trees called خِلَاف [now applied to the salix Aegyptia of Linn.] in the dial. of El-Yemen.

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