عَصُوبٌ
Root: عصب
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عَصُوبٌ
A she-camel that will not yield her milk copiously unless her thigh, or thighs, be bound with a cord: or unless the lower parts of her nostrils be bound with a cord, and she be then urged to rise, and not loosed until she is milked.
2 And A woman having little flesh in her posteriors and thighs: or light in the hips, or haunches.
2 And A woman having little flesh in her posteriors and thighs: or light in the hips, or haunches.
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