مُسَيَّحٌ

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مُسَيَّحٌ Striped; applied in this sense to a [garment of the kind called] بُرْد; and also, with ة, to a [garment such as is called] عَبَآءَة: or applied to [the garments called] عَبَآء as meaning having alternate stripes of white and black, the latter not intensely black: every عباءة also is termed سَيْحٌ and مُسَيَّحَةٌ: but that which has not stripes is a كِسَآء, not an عباءة. So too applied to locusts (جَرَاد); and with ة applied to a single locust [i. e. جَرَادَة]: or, applied to locusts, it means marked with black and yellow and white stripes or streaks. It is also applied as an epithet to the [bird called] حَيْقُطَان.
2 The wild ass: so called because of his streak that makes a division between the belly and the side. مُسَيَّحُ العَجِيزَةِ [He that has the rump streaked] is an epithet applied to the [wild] ass because of the whiteness on his rump.
3 A road of which the tracks (شَرَك or شُرُك in different copies of the K) are rendered apparent: likened to the عَبَآء thus termed.

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