شِيحٌ
Root: شيح
Full Definition
شِيحٌ
Cautious, or fearing; as also
شَائِحٌ , and
مُشِيحٌ : or this last, cautious, or fearing, and at the same time striving, labouring, toiling, or exerting himself: or all signify prudent; discreet; or having, or using, precaution, or good judgment; and so
شَيْحَانُ .
2 In the dial. of Hudheyl, Striving, labouring, toiling, or exerting himself, in affairs; and so شَائِحٌ , and مُشِيحٌ : pl. of the first [and app. of the second also] شِيَاحٌ:
def.2 Also [The artemisia Judaïca; and absinthium Ponticum; species of wormwood;] a certain plant, well known, of several species, of some [species] whereof brooms are made, [and which is also used for fumigation,] the leaves of which are [of the kind called] هَدَب; it has a sweet odour, but its taste is bitter; is pasture for horses and camels; and the places of its growth are the plains and the meadows: pl. شِيحَانٌ.
def.3 Accord. to the K, [probably on the authority of Lth,] it signifies also A [garment of the kind called] بُرْد, of El-Yemen: but Az says that there is no kind of garment so called: the correct word is سَيْحٌ, with [the unpointed] س [and with fet-h].
2 In the dial. of Hudheyl, Striving, labouring, toiling, or exerting himself, in affairs; and so شَائِحٌ , and مُشِيحٌ : pl. of the first [and app. of the second also] شِيَاحٌ:
def.2 Also [The artemisia Judaïca; and absinthium Ponticum; species of wormwood;] a certain plant, well known, of several species, of some [species] whereof brooms are made, [and which is also used for fumigation,] the leaves of which are [of the kind called] هَدَب; it has a sweet odour, but its taste is bitter; is pasture for horses and camels; and the places of its growth are the plains and the meadows: pl. شِيحَانٌ.
def.3 Accord. to the K, [probably on the authority of Lth,] it signifies also A [garment of the kind called] بُرْد, of El-Yemen: but Az says that there is no kind of garment so called: the correct word is سَيْحٌ, with [the unpointed] س [and with fet-h].
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