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قَرِيحَةٌ

Root: قرح

Full Definition

قَرِيحَةٌ The first water that is drawn forth, or produced, of a well, when it is dug; and قُرْحٌ signifies the same.
2 And The first of what pours forth, or descends, [for اصاب in my original I read صَابَ] of the contents of clouds.
3 And The first of a thing; and so قُرْحٌ ; and the former, the first of anything.
4 And A faculty whereby intellectual things are elicited, or excogitated. One says, لِفُلَانٍ قَرِيحَةٌ جَيِّدَةٌ i. e. Such a one has a good, or an excellent, natural faculty for the elicitation of matters of science: from قَرِيحَةٌ in the first of the senses expl. above.
5 And The natural, native, or innate, disposition, temper, or other quality, of a person: and, as some expl. it, the mind, and intellect: pl. قَرَائِحُ.
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