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غَلَلٌ

Root: غل

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غَلَلٌ Water amid trees: pl. أَغْلَالٌ. (S, O. [See an ex. voce عَذْبٌ.]) And Water having no current, only appearing a little upon the surface of the earth, disappearing at one time and appearing at another: or, accord. to AHn, a feeble flow of water from the bottom of a valley or water-course, amid trees. Aboo-Sa'eed says, لَا يَذْهَبُ كَلَامُنَا غَلَلَا [Our speech shall not pass away as a feeble flow of water]: meaning that it ought not to be concealed from men, but should be made public.

def.2 Also A strainer, or clarifier: occur- ring in a verse of Lebeed, cited voce رَازِقِىٌّ: where it means the فِدَام on the heads of the أَبَارِيق, or on the head of the إِبْرِيق: or, as some relate the verse, the word is غُلَلٌ, pl. of غُلَّةٌ ; which signifies [the same, i. e.] a piece of rag bound on the head of the ابريق [to act as a strainer].

def.3 And The flesh that is left upon the thumb when one skins [a beast].

def.4 See also غُلٌّ, last sentence.

def.5 Also, and غَلَالَةٌ , or , A certain disease that attacks sheep, or goats, in the orifice of the teat, occasioned by the milker's not exhausting the udder, but leaving in it some milk, which becomes blood, or coagulates and is mixed with a yellow fluid.
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