طِلَآءٌ

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طِلَآءٌ Tar: and anything of the like kind with which one daubs or smears or the like; [i. e. any fluid, semifluid, liniment, unguent, oil, varnish, plaster, or the like, with which a thing is daubed, smeared, rubbed or done over, anointed, painted, varnished, plastered, coated, overspread, or overlaid;] as also طُلَاوَةٌ , which by rule should be طُلَايَةٌ , for it is from طَلَيْتُ. (TA, in which طُلَايَةٌ is afterwards mentioned as having the same meaning.)
2 And, as being likened thereto, Any thick beverage or wine: expressed juice of grapes cooked until the quantity of two thirds has gone by evaporation; called by the Persians مَيْبُخْتَج [or مَىْ پُخْتَه]; called by the Arabs طِلَآء as being likened to tar: or thick expressed juice, or wine, cooked until half of it has gone: in a verse of Ibn-Sukkarah, shortened to طِلًا , for the sake of the metre.
3 And Wine [in an absolute sense] is thus called by some of the Arabs, for the purpose of euphemism. 'Obeyd Ibn-El-Abras said to El-Mundhir when he [the latter] desired to slay him, هِىَ الخَمْرُ تُكْنَى الطِّلَآءَ كَمَا الذِّئْبُ يُكْنَى أَبَا جعْدَةَ [It is wine: it is surnamed الطلآء like as the wolf is surnamed ابو جعدة]: i. e. thou pretendest to show honour to me while desiring to slay me; like the wolf, whose acting is not good though his surname is good: or, as cited by IKt, عَنِ الخَمْرِ تَكْنِى الطِّلَآءَ: and in the M, هَىِ الخَمْرُ يَكْنُونَهَا بِالٰطِّلَآءِ [forming a hemistich; the words كَمَا الذِّئْبُ الخ, cited above, completing the verse].
4 And The ashes between the three stones upon which the cooking-pot is placed: so called by way of comparison [to tar].
5 And Pure silver.
6 And Revilement, or reproach.

def.2 Also The cord with which the leg of the lamb, or kid, is tied to a peg, or stake; and so طِلْوٌ and طِلْوَةٌ : or the string with which the leg of the kid is tied as long as he is little; and so طُلْيَةٌ and طَلْيَةٌ and [or طَلًا].

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