مُسْتَطِيرٌ

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مُسْتَطِيرٌ Spreading; applied to dust; as also طَيَّارٌ ; and to hoariness; and to evil: rising and spreading; whereof the light spreads in the horizon; applied to the true dawn, which renders it unlawful to the faster to eat or drink or indulge in other carnal pleasure, and on the appearance of which the prayer of daybreak may be performed, and which is termed الخِيْطُ الأَبْيَضُ: that to which the epithet مُسْتَطِيل is applied is [the false dawn,] that which is likened to the tail of the wolf (ذَنَبُ السِّرْحَانِ), and is termed الخِيْطُ الأَسْوَدُ; and this does not render anything unlawful to the faster.
2 Also A dog excited by lust; and so a camel; or the epithet applied in this sense to the latter is هَائِجٌ.

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