غَمِيسٌ
Root: غمس
Full Definition
2 And A thing that has not appeared to men, and that is not known, as yet: whence the phrase قَصِيدَةٌ غَمِيسٌ [an ode that has not become known: the epithet being masc. and fem.].
3 And i. q. أَجَمَةٌ [A collection of tangled, or dense, trees or shrubs, or of reeds or canes; (see also غَمِيسَةٌ;)] and anything tangled, confused, or dense, in which one hides, or conceals, himself: in the copies of the K, أَوْ يُسْتَخْفَى is erroneously written for أَىْ يستخفى as in the T and O.
4 And A water-course, or channel in which water flows, or such as is small, amid [plants such as are termed] بَقْل and نَبَات, or, as in the L, combining (يَجْمَعُ) [app. within it] trees, or shrubs, and بَقْل.
5 Also Night: or dark night. And Darkness.
6 And AO is related by El-Athram to have said, المَجْرُ is what is in the belly of the she-camel; and the second [i. e. the offspring of the مَجْر] is [called] حَبَلُ الحَبَلَةِ; and the third is الغَمِيسُ [i. e. this last signifies The offspring of the offspring of the مَجْر: see مَجْرٌ and حَبَلٌ].
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