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صلّع

Root: صلع

Form: 2

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صلّعII : see above, last sentence but one.
2 صلّعت الحَيَّةُ The serpent came forth from concealment (بَرَزَت) without any earth, or dust, upon it.

def.2 صلّع, Verbal.Noun تَصْلِيعٌ, i. q. أَعْذَرَ [meaning He voided his ordure: see تَصْلِيعٌ as a subst., below; and what here follows]. And صلّع فُلَانٌ, Such a one put his hand evenly expanded on the ground and voided his ordure or his ordure in a thin state (سَلَحَ): thus expl. by Lth. See also 1, last sentence.
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