لفج

4 أَلْفَجَ and أُلْفِجَ He (a man) clave to the ground by reason of sorrow, grief, or solicitude, or of want. (L.) b2: الفج, inf. n. إِلْفَاجٌ, He, or it, constrained, compelled, or necessitated, a person, to have recourse to one, or to others, not of his family; (K;) constrained him to beg of such. (L.) b3: أَلْفَجَنِى إِلَى ذٰلِكَ الإِضْطِرَارُ Necessity constrained me to have recourse to that. (Az.) b4: أَلْفَجَ, [not أُلْفِجَ, as might be thought from the signification of the part. n. مُلْفَجٌ,] (inf. n. إِلْفَاجٌ; S;) and ↓ استلفج; (L:) He became a bankrupt; syn. أَفْلَسَ: (S, K:) he was, or became, poor: (TA:) he became destitute, possessing nothing. (A 'Obeyd.) 10 استلفج: see 4. b2: Also, He was, or became, constrained to have recourse to a thing: or was in need. (TA.) لَفْجٌ Abasement; abjectness. (IAar, K.) لُفْجٌ The channel of a torrent. (L.) مُلْفَجٌ (S, K) and ↓ مُلْفِجٌ (ISk) and ↓ مُسْتَلْفَجٌ (K) or مُسْتَلْفِجٌ (as in the L.) A man in a state of bankruptcy: a bankrupt; syn. مُفْلِسٌ: (S, K:) or the former, poor: (ISk:) or a bankrupt and in debt: (IAth:) or destitute; possessing nothing: (A 'Obeyd:) the first extr. [with respect to rule], (S, K,) like مُحْصَنٌ from أَحْصَنَ, and مُسْهَبَ from

أَسْهَبَ. (S.) [See مُسْهَبٌ.]

مُلْفِجٌ: see مُلْفَجٌ.

مُسْتَلْفَجٌ, (as in the K,) or ↓ مُسْتَلْفِجٌ, (as in the L [and this latter I think the correct mode of writing the word in all the senses here explained, for I do not find it noted as extr. with respect to rule like مُلْفَجٌ,]) [part. n. of 10, q. v.: and] i. q. مُلْفَجٌ, q. v. (K.) b2: One whose heart forsakes him, or fails him, by reason of fear, or fright. (K.) b3: Cleaving to the ground by reason of emaciation, (K,) or of sorrow, grief, or solicitude, or of want; as also ملفج [i. e. مُلْفِجٌ and مُلْفَجٌ: see 4]. (TA.) مُسْتَلْفِجٌ: see مُسْتَلْفَجٌ.

لبد

1 لَبِدَ, aor. ـَ inf. n. لَبَدٌ, It (a thing) stuck, clave, or adhered. (Msb.) b2: لَبَدَ بِالأَرْضِ, aor. ـُ inf. n. لُبُودٌ; (S, L;) and بِهَا ↓ البد; (L;) and بِهَا ↓ تلبّد; (S;) It (a thing) stuck, clave, or adhered, to the ground. (S, L.) b3: بِالأَرْضِ ↓ تلبّد He (a bird) lay upon his breast, cleaving to the ground. (S, L, K.) b4: (tropical:) He clave to the ground, concealing his person. (A.) b5: Hence the proverb تَصَيَّدِى ↓ تَلَبَّدِى, [for تَتَصَيَّدِى, (tropical:) Cleave thou (addressed to a female) to the ground: thou wilt take, or catch, or snare, or entrap, game]. (A.) b6: Hence also, ↓ تلبّد (tropical:) He remained fixed, or steady, and looked, or considered. (A.) b7: لَبَدَ بِالمَكَانِ, (L, K, *) aor. ـُ inf. n. لُبُودٌ; and لَبِدَ, aor. ـَ inf. n. لَبَدٌ; (L, K;) and ↓ البد; (S, L, K;;) (tropical:) He remained, continued, stayed, abode, or dwelt, in the place; (S, L, K; *) and clave to it. (L, K. *) b8: لَبَدَ عَلَى عَصَاهُ, inf. n. لُبُودٌ, (assumed tropical:) He (a pastor) leaned upon his staff, remaining fixed to his place. (L.) b9: لَبِدَ, aor. ـَ (S, L,) inf. n. لَبَدٌ, (S, L, K,) He (a camel) became choked by eating much of the plant called صِلِّيَان, suffering a contortion in the [part of the chest called] حَيْزُوم and in the [part of the throat called] غَلْصَمَة: (ISk, S, L, K: *) or had a complaint of the belly from eating of the قَتَاد [or tragacantha]. (AHn, L.) b10: See 4.2 لبّدهُ, inf. n. تَلْبِيدٌ, He stuck it, one part upon another, so that it became like لِبْد [or felt]. (Msb.) b2: لبّد الصُّوفَ He made the wool into لِبْد [i. e., a compact and coherent mass; or felt]. (A.) [And He, or it, rendered the wool coherent, compact, or matted.] b3: لبّد الأَرْضَ, (inf. n. تَلْبِيدٌ, L,) It (rain, S, A, or a scanty rain, L,) rendered the ground compact, so that the feet did not sink in it. (S, * A, * L.) b4: لبّد, (L,) or لبّد شَعَرَهُ, (L, Msb,) inf. n. تَلْبِيدٌ, (S, L, Msb,) He (a pilgrim, S, L, Msb, in the state of إِحْرَام, S, L,) put upon his head some gum, (A 'Obeyd, S, L, K,) or خِطْمِىّ or the like, (Msb,) or honey, (A 'Obeyd, L,) or something glutinous, (L,) in order that his hair might become compacted together, (A 'Obeyd, S, L, Msb, K,) to preserve it in the state in which it was, (S, * L,) lest it should become shaggy, or dishevelled, and frowzy, or dusty, (S, L, Msb,) or lousy, (A 'Obeyd, L,) during the state of احرام. (S, L.) The Arabs in the time of paganism used to do thus when they did not desire to shave their heads during the pilgrimage. Some say, that it signifies He shaved the whole of his hair. (L.) A2: لبّد عَجَاجَتَهُ: see art. عج.4 أَلْبَدَ: see 1. b2: البد شَيْئًا بِشَىْءٍ He stuck a thing to a thing; (K;) as also لَبَدَهُ, inf. n. لَبْدٌ: (TA:) or he stuck a thing firmly to a thing. (L.) b3: He put the milking-vessel close to the udder [lit., stuck it to the udder] in order that there might be no froth to the milk. (TA, art. نفج.) b4: البد He (a camel) struck his hinder parts with his tail, having befouled it with his thin dung and his urine, and so made these to form a compact crust upon those parts. (S, L.) b5: البد بَصَرُهُ (assumed tropical:) His sight, or eye, (meaning that of a person praying,) remained fixed upon the place of prostration. (K.) b6: البد (tropical:) He lowered, or stooped, his head, in entering (A, K) a door. (A.) A2: البد السَّرْجَ; (S, IKtt, K;) and ↓ لَبَدَهُ, inf. n. لَبْدٌ; (IKtt;) He made for the saddle a لِبْد [or cloth of felt to place beneath it]: (S, IKtt, K:) and in like manner, البد الخُفَّ, and ↓ لَبَدَهُ, he made a لِبْد [or lining of felt?] for the boots. (IKtt.) b2: البد الفَرَسَ He bound upon the horse a لِبْد [or saddle cloth, or covering of felt]: (S, K:) or put it upon his back. (A.) b3: البدتِ الإِبِلُ (assumed tropical:) The camels put forth their soft hair (S, L, K) and their colours, (S, L,) and assumed a goodly appearance, (L,) and began to grow fat, (S, L, K,) by reason of the [season, or pasture, called] رَبِيع: (S, L:) as though they put on أَلْبَاد [or felt coverings]. (L.) b4: البد القِرْبَةَ He put the water-skin into a جُوَالِق [or sack]: (K:) or into a لَبِيد, or small جوالق: (S:) the لَبِيد is a لِبْد [or covering of felt] which is sewed upon it. (L.) 5 تَلَبَّدَ see 1. b2: تلبد It (wool, A, L, K, and the like, K, as common hair, A, L, and the soft hair of camels or the like, L,) became commingled, and compacted together, or matted, coherent; (S, * A, * L, K;) as also ↓ التبد. (L.) [Both are also said of dung, and of a mixture of dung and urine, meaning It caked, or became compacted, upon the ground &c.] b3: It (the ground, L, or the dust, or the sand, A,) became compact, so that the feet did not sink in it, by reason of rain. (S, * A, * L.) b4: [Also, app., He shrank, by reason of fear: see هَبِيتٌ: in the present day it is used to signify he hid, or contracted, himself, by reason of fear, or for the purpose of practising some act of guile.]8 التبدت الشَّجَرَةُ The tree became dense, or abundant, in its foliage. (S, L, K.) b2: التبد الوَرَقُ The leaves became commingled, and compacted together. (S, L, K.) See 5.

لِبْدٌ Hair or wool commingled, and compacted together, or coherent; [felt;] (L, Msb, K;) as also ↓ لِبْدَةٌ; (L, K;) or this is a more particular term; [meaning a portion of such hair or wool; a piece of felt;] (S, Msb;) and ↓ لُبْدَةٌ: (L, K:) pl. of لِبْدٌ, (or of لبدة, as though the ة were imagined to be elided, M,) لُبُودٌ (S, A, L, K) and أَلْبَادٌ. (L, K.) b2: لِبْدٌ A well-known kind of carpet [and cloth, made of felt]. (L, K.) b3: لِبْدٌ [or لِبْدَةٌ, (S, art. وثر,)] What is beneath the saddle; [a saddle-cloth; a housing; a cloth of felt, which is placed beneath the saddle, and also used as a covering without the saddle]. (S, * L, * K.) لَبَدٌ Wool. (S, K.) Hence the saying مَا لَهُ سَبَدٌ وَلَا لَبَدٌ He has neither hair nor wool: (S:) or, neither what has hair nor what has wool: or, neither little nor much: (TA:) or, he has not anything: (S:) for the wealth of the Arabs consisted of horses, camels, sheep and goats, and cows; and all of these are included in this saying (TA.) See also سَبَدٌ.

لبد [app. لَبِدٌ] Compact, or cohering, ground, upon which one may walk, or journey, quickly. (L.) لَبِدٌ (S, K) and ↓ لُبَدٌ, (S, A, L, K,) the former of which is preferable, accord. to A'Obeyd, (S,) (tropical:) One who does not travel, (S, L,) nor quit his abode, (S, * L, K,) or place, (A,) nor seek sustenance. (L, K.) Hence, (A,) the last of Lukmán's [seven] vultures [with whose life his own was to terminate] was called ↓ لُبَدٌ, (S, A, L, K,) because he thought that is would not go away nor die. (L.) Thus applied, it is perfectly decl., because it is a word not made to deviate from its original form. (S, L.) b2: Also ↓ لُبَدٌ A man who does not quit his camel's saddle. (L.) لُبَدٌ (S, L) and لِبَدٌ, which is pl. of ↓ لِبْدَةٌ, (L,) and ↓ لُبَّدَى, (L, K,) and ↓ لِبْدَةٌ, and ↓ لُبْدَةٌ, (L,) (tropical:) A number of men collected together, (S, L, K,) and [as it were] compacted, one upon another: so the first and second of these words, accord. to different readings, signify in the Kur., lxxii., 19: (L:) or لِبَدٌ signifies collected together like locusts, (T, L,) which are app. thus called as being likened to a congregation of men; (ISd, L;) pl. of لِبْدَةٌ, (L,) which signifies a locust. (K.) [See a verse cited voce صَابَ.] b2: مَالٌ لُبَدٌ, (S, A, K, &c.,) and ↓ لُبَّدٌ, (Aboo-Jaafar, K,) and ↓ لُبُدٌ, (El-Hasan and Mujáhid,) and ↓ لُبْدٌ, (Mujáhid,) (tropical:) Much wealth; (S, K, &c.;) so in the Kur., xc., 6; (S, TA;) as also ↓ لَابِدٌ: (K:) or wealth so abundant that one fears not its coming to an end: (A, L:) some say that لُبَدٌ is a pl., and that its sing. is لُبْدَةٌ: others, that it is sing., like قُثَمٌ and حُصَمٌ: أَمْوَالٌ and مَالٌ are sometimes used in the same sense: لُبَّدٌ seems to be pl. of لَابِدٌ: (L:) so is لُبُدٌ, and so لُبْدٌ: (El-Basáïr:) also, مال لِبَدٌ, which is accord. to the reading of Zeyd Ibn-'Alee and Ibn-'Omeyr and 'Ásim, signifies collected wealth; لِبَدٌ being pl. of لِبْدَةٌ. (TA.) A2: See لُبَدٌ.

لِبْدَةٌ (tropical:) The mass of hair between the shoulderblades of the lion, (S, A, K,) intermingled, and compacted together: (A:) and the like upon a camel's hump: (T, L:) pl. لِبَدٌ. (S.) Hence the proverb, هُوَ أَمْنَعُ مِنْ لِبْدَةِ الأَسَدِ [He, or it, is more unapproachable, or inaccessible, than the mass of hair between the shoulder-blades of the lion]. (S, A.) Hence also ذُو لِبْدَةٍ is an appel-lation of the lion; (T, S, A, K;) and so ذُو لِبَدٍ. (T, A,) b2: See لِبْدٌ and لُبَدٌ.

لُبْدَةٌ: see لُبَدٌ.

نَاقَةٌ لَبِدَةٌ A she-camel choked by eating much of the plant called صِلِّيَان: pl. لَبَادَى: [see لَبِدَ:] (S:) or إِبِلٌ لَبِدَةٌ, and لَبَادَى, camels having a complaint of the belly from eating of the قَتَاد [or tragacantha]: and in like manner you say ناقة لَبِدَةٌ. (AHn, L.) لَبِيدٌ A جُوَالِق [or sack]: (K:) or a small جوالق: (S, IKtt, L:) or a large جوالق: a لِبْد [or covering of felt] which is sewed upon a قِرْبَة [or water-skin]. (L.) b2: Also, (K,) or لَبِيدَةٌ, (L,) A [fodder-bag of the kind called] مِخْلَاة. (L, K.) لَبَّادٌ A maker, or manufacturer, of لِبْد [i. e., hair or wool commingled, and compacted together; or felt]. (K.) لُبَّادَةٌ A garment of felt (مِنْ لِبْد, S, or لُبُود, L, K,) worn on account of rain, (S, L, Msb, K,) to protect one therefrom: (TA:) a garment of the kind called قَبَآء. (L.) لُبَّادَى: see لُبَدٌ.

لَابِدٌ see لُبَدٌ. b2: اللَّابِدُ, and ↓ المُلْبَدُ, and أَبُو لُبَدٍ, and أَبُو لِبَدٍ, (tropical:) The lion. (K.) ملْبَدٌ A horse having a لِبْد [or saddle-cloth, or covering of felt] bound upon him. (S.) b2: See اللَابِدُ, and مُلْبِدٌ.

مُلْبِدٌ A camel (L, K) or stallion-camel, (T, L,) striking his thighs with his tail, (L, K,) and making his dung to stick to them. (L.) b2: (tropical:) A man cleaving to the ground, and making himself inconspicuous: (TA:) (tropical:) a man cleaving to the ground by reason of poverty. (A.) b3: مُلْبِدٌ, or ↓ مُلْبَدٌ, applied to a tank, or cistern: see مُبْلِدٌ.

مُلَبِّدٌ Scanty rain [that renders the soft ground compact, so that the feet do not sink in it]. (L.) خُفٌّ مُلَبَّدٌ, and ↓ مَلْبُودٌ, A pair of boots made of لِبْد [or felt]. (A.) See also 4.

مَلْبُودٌ (assumed tropical:) A he-goat compact in flesh. (L.) b2: See preceding paragraph.

لحد

1 لَحَدَ (A) and ↓ الحد (L, K) (tropical:) He, or it, (as an arrow, A) declined, or deviated, from the right course: (A, L, K:) and also he, or it, inclined: you say لَحَدَ إِلَيْهِ, (A, L, K,) aor. ـَ (L;) and ↓ الحد (A;) and ↓ التحد; (S, L, K;) he, or it, inclined to him, or it. (A, L, K.) Some read, [in the Kur xvi. 105,] لِسَانُ الَّذِى

يَلْحَدُونَ إِلَيْهِ (tropical:) [The tongue of him unto whom they incline]. (S.) b2: فِى الدِّينِ ↓ الحد; (S, A, L, Msb;) and لَحَدَ فِيهِ, (S, L, Msb,) aor. ـَ (L;) (tropical:) He deviated, or swerved, from the right way, with respect to religion: (S, A, L:) he impugned religion. (Msb.) b3: فِى الحَرَمِ ↓ الحد (tropical:) He relinquished, or forsook, the right course, with respect to that which he was commanded to do, in the sacred Temple or territory of Mekkeh; (L, K;) and inclined to do wrong, wrongfully, unjustly, or injuriously: (L:) or he did wrong, wrongfully, unjustly, or injuriously, therein; (S, L, K;) and so opposed others: (Fr, L:) or he associated others with God, therein; expl. by أَشْرَكَ بِاللّٰهِ: so in the K and Basáïr; in the latter as on the authority of Zj: or he doubted respecting God, therein: so in the L and other lexicons, as on the authority of Zj: (TA:) or he hoarded up corn in expectation of its becoming dear, therein; (L, K;) a meaning taken from a trad of 'Omar; (L;) but this is merely a kind of wrong-doing: (TA:) or he desecrated it, and violated its sanctity. (Msb.) The origin of the phrase is in the text of the Kur [xx. 26,] وَمَنْ يُرِدْ فِيهِ بِإِلْحَادٍ بِظُلْمٍ, i.e. إِلْحَادًا بِظُلْمٍ, the ب being redundant. (S, L.) A2: لَحَدَ القَبْرَ, aor. ـَ (inf. n. لَحْدٌ; L,) and ↓ الحدهُ; (A, L, K;) and لَحَدَ لَهُ لَحْدًا; and له ↓ الحد; (S, Msb;) He made a لَحْد to the grave. (S, A, L, K.) b2: لَحَدَ الْمَيِّتَ, aor. ـَ inf. n. لَحْدٌ; and ↓ الحدهُ; and لَحَدَ لَهُ; and له ↓ الحد; He made a لَحْد for the corpse: or ↓ الحدهُ has this signification; (L;) and in like manner, لَحَدَ لَه لَحْدًا, and ↓ الحد, he dug a لَحْد for him: (A, Mgh, Msb:) and لَحَدَهُ, he buried him; (L, K;) or put him into a لحد; and so ↓ الحدهُ. (Mgh, Msb.) 3 لاحدهُ (assumed tropical:) He behaved towards him in a crooked, or perverse, manner, the latter doing the same. (K, * TA.) 4 الحد: see 1, throughout. b2: (assumed tropical:) He disputed; altercated; wrangled. (A' Obeyd, L, Msb, K.) b3: الحد بِهِ (assumed tropical:) He brought a reproach upon him, or held him in light estimation, or despised him, (أَزْرَى بِهِ,) and said of him what was false: (K:) or he held his clemency, or forbearance, or intellect, (حِلْم,) in light estimation; or despised it; as also أَلْهَدَ بِهِ. (L.) 8 التحد إِلَيْهِ (tropical:) He had recourse, or betook himself, to it, or him, for refuge, protection, concealment, covert, or lodging. (A.) لَحْدٌ (S, A, L, Msb, K) and ↓ لُحْدٌ (S, L, Msb, K) and ↓ لَحَدٌ (El-Basáïr) and ↓ مَلْحُودٌ, (A, L, K,) which last is an epithet wherein the quality of a subst. is predominant, (L,) A trench or an oblong excavation, in the side of a grave; a lateral hollow of a grave; (S, A, L, Msb, K;) which is the place of the corpse; what is called ضَرِيحٌ and ضَرِيحَةٌ is in the middle: (L:) pl. (of the first, Msb) لُحُودٌ and (of the second, Msb) أَلْحَادٌ. (L, Msb, K.) Accord. to some, لحد used in this sense is tropical; from لَحَدَ and أَلْحَدَ signifying “ he inclined, or declined. ” (MF.) [The reverse, however, is the case accord. to the A.] [See an ex. in a verse cited voce شَدِيدٌ.]

لُحْدٌ and لَحَدٌ: see لَحْدٌ.

لَاحِدٌ: see مَلْحُودٌ.

مُلْحِدٌ act. part. n. of 4, q. v.: (tropical:) One who deviates, or swerves, from the truth, and introduces into it that which does not belong to it: (ISk, L:) an impugner of religion: (Msb in art. رندق;) pl. مُلْحِدُونَ (Msb) [and مَلَاحِذَةٌ]. Some apply the appellation of المُلْحِدُونَ especially to the Bátinees (البَاطِنِيَّة), who assert that the Kur-án has an outward sense and an inward, the latter differing from the former, and known to them; by which doctrine they have perverted the law. (Msb.) مُلْحَدٌ: see مَلْحُودٌ.

مَلْحُودٌ (A, K) and ↓ مُلْحَدٌ, (S, A,) or مَلْحُودٌ لَهُ and لَهُ ↓ مُلْحَدٌ, (L,) and ↓ لَاحِدٌ, (K,) A grave having a لَحْد made to it. (S, A, L, K.) b2: See لَحْدٌ.

مُلْتَحَدٌ (tropical:) A place to which one has recourse for refuge, protection, concealment, covert, or lodging: a place of refuge; an asylum: (S, Msb, K:) so called because one turns aside to it. (S.)

لوز

لَوْزٌ [The almond; or almonds;] the fruit of a certain tree; (Msb, TA;) well known; (A, Msb, K;) abundant in the countries of the Arabs; said by some to be a species of مِزْج, which is that whereof the edible part is not attained save by breaking; by others said to be bruised, or brayed, مِزْج; and also called قُمْرُوصٌ: it is of two kinds, sweet and bitter: (TA:) the sweet is of moderate temperature, beneficial to the chest and the lungs and the bladder, (by reason of its soft nature, TA,) and the eating thereof, shelled, with sugar, augments the marrow and brain, and fattens: the bitter is hot in the third degree, opens stoppages of the nose, clears away [the spots in the skin called] نَمَش, and stills pain, (K [but omitted in the CK] and TA,) when it [app. meaning its oil] is drunk, and when dropped into the ear; (TA;) and it relaxes the bowels, and causes sleep, (K, TA,) when the soles of the feet are anointed with it, and when it is introduced into the nose; (TA;) and it is diuretic: (K, TA:) it is an Arabic word: (Msb, TA:) a coll. gen. n.: (TA:) n. un. with ة. (S, Msb, K.) A2: [Hence,] اللَّوْزَتَانِ (tropical:) [The amygdalæ of the fauces; also called the tonsils;] two pieces of flesh in the two sides of the fauces. (A, TA.) b2: (tropical:) The two sockets of the hips, where the heads of the thigh-bones are inserted. (A, TS, TA.) لَوَّازٌ A seller of لَوْز [or almonds]. (K.) أَرْضٌ مَلَازَةٌ Land containing, (S, M,) or abounding with, (A, K,) trees of the لَوْز [or almond]. (S, M, A, K.) تَمْرٌ مُلَوَّزٌ Dates stuffed with لَوْز [or almonds]; (Sgh, K;) the stones being taken out and لَوْز put in their place. (TA.)

لمظ

1 لَمَظَ, (S, K,) aor. ـُ (S,) inf. n. لَمْظٌ, (S, M,) He sought leisurely and gradually, with his tongue, after the remains of the food in his mouth, (S, K, TA,) after eating: (TA:) and he put forth his tongue, and wiped with it his lips: (S, K:) as also ↓ تلمّظ, (S, K,) in both senses: (K:) you say also الحَيَّةُ ↓ تلمّظت (tropical:) The serpent put forth its tongue, (S, K, TA,) like as the eater puts it forth and wipes with it his lip: (S, TA:) or the former verb and ↓ the latter signify he took with his tongue what remained in the mouth after eating: (M:) or he sought leisurely and gradually after the taste, and tasted time after time: (M, K:) or ↓ the latter signifies he tasted time after time; as also تمطّق: or he moved about his tongue in his mouth after eating, as though seeking leisurely and gradually after some remains of the food between his teeth; whereas تمطّق signifies he smacked his lips: (T:) or ↓ تلمّظ signifies he sought leisurely and gradually, with his tongue, after the remains of the food between his teeth after eating: or he put forth his tongue, and wiped with it his lips. (Mgh.) [Hence the saying بِذِكْرِهِ ↓ مَا زَالَ فُلَانٌ يَتَلَمَّظُ (tropical:) [Such a one ceased not to busy his tongue with mentioning him, or it]. (TA.) A2: لَمَظَ المَآءَ, inf. n. لَمْظٌ, He tasted the water with the extremity of his tongue. (TA.) A3: See also 2, in two places.2 لمّظهُ, inf. n. تَلْمِيظٌ; (TA;) or ↓ لَمَظَهُ; (M as quoted in the TT [being there written without teshdeed; and both seem to be correct;]) He gave him something to taste; he fed him with something whereby to content or divert, him [so as to allay the craving of his stomach] before the morning-meal; syn. ذَوَّقَهُ and لَمَّجَهُ, (M, TA,) both of which are alike. (TA.) You say also, لَمِّظْ فُلَانًا لُمَاظَةً [Give thou to such a one, to eat,] something which he may taste time after time, or after eating which he may move about his tongue in his mouth as though seeking leisurely and gradually after some remains thereof between his teeth. (T.) b2: And [hence,] لمّظهُ, (M, K,) inf. n. as above; (TA;) and ↓ لَمَظَهُ; (M, K;) (tropical:) He gave to him (M, K, TA) somewhat (M, TA) of his right, or due. (M, K, TA.) 4 المظهُ He put the water upon the edge of his lips, (M,) or upon his lips, or lip. (K, accord. to different copies.) b2: And hence إِلْمَاظٌ is used to signify (tropical:) The act of piercing, or thrusting, feebly [with a spear or the like]. (M, * TA.) 5 تَلَمَّظَ see 1, in six places.8 التمظهُ He ate it: (ISk, S, M, A:) or he threw it quickly into his mouth. (O, K.) 9 المظّ, inf. n. إِلْمِظَاظٌ, He (a horse) had a لُمْظَة, or whiteness upon his lower lip. (S, K.) لَمَظٌ: see لُمْظَةٌ, in two places.

لُمْظَةٌ A whiteness in the lower lip of a horse, (S, M, K,) not being a part of the [whiteness termed] غُرَّة; (M;) as also ↓ لَمَظٌ: (M, K:) also the former, a غُرَّة which descends so that it enters into the mouth of a horse, and so that he removes with it what has remained in his mouth after eating: and ↓ the latter, somewhat white in the lip of a beast of carriage, not passing beyond the place where the lip closes: (M:) or the former, a whiteness upon both the lips, only. (M, K.) Also, Somewhat of whiteness in the fore leg of a horse, or in his hind leg, upon the أَشْعَر [or hair which surrounds the hoof.] (Ibn-'Abbád, K.) And A small spot (As, T, S, M, K) of white: (As, T, S, K:) and contr. of black, in the heart. (K.) It is said in a trad., that faith begins like a لُمْظَة in the heart; (T, S;) and as faith increases, so the latter increases. (T.) And that hypocrisy in the heart is a black لمظة, and faith is a white لمظة; and as either increases, so the لمظة increases. (M. TA.) b2: Also, (tropical:) A small quantity of clarified butter, which one takes with the finger, (K, TA,) like a walnut: mentioned by Z and Ibn-'Abbád. (TA.) لَمَاظٌ A thing which one tastes, (K, TA), and with which one moves about the tongue in the mouth. (TA.) You say, مَا لَهُ لَمَاظٌ He has not anything to taste, (K, TA,) &c. (TA.) and مَا ذُقْتُ لَمَاظًا I have not tasted anything. (S) And شَرِبَ المَآءَ لَمَاظًا He tasted the water with the extremity of his tongue. (S, M, K. *) [See also what next follows.]

لُمَاظَةٌ What remains in the mouth, (S, M, K,) of food, (S, M,) after eating: (TA:) or something which one may taste time after time, or after eating which one may move about his tongue in his mouth as though seeking leisurely and gradually after some remains thereof between his teeth. (T.) [See also what next precedes.]

b2: Also, A remain, remainder, or residue, of something little in quantity. (TA.) أَلْمَظُ A horse having a لُمْظَة, or whiteness, upon his lower lip: when it is upon the upper lip. he is termed أَرْثَمُ: (S, K:) or a horse whose lower lip is white. (Mgh.) مَلَامِظُ The part around the lips of a man: (M, K:) because he tastes therewith. (M.) مُتَلَمَّظٌ The part of the face by which smiling is expressed; syn. مُتَبَسَّمٌ. (K. TA) [in the CK, erroneously, مُتَبَسِّم.]) You say, إِنَّهُ لَحَسَنُ المُتَلَمَّظِ [Verily he is goodly in respect of the part of the face by which smiling is expressed]. (TA.)

لطف

1 لَطُفَ It (a thing) was small, or little; (S, Msb, K, KL;) and slender, thin, or fine: (K, KL:) and elegant, or graceful. (KL.) 2 لَطَّفَ It (a medicine) acted as an attenuant, and as an emollient. b2: لَطَّفَهُ, inf. n. تَلْطِيفٌ, [He made it slender]. (A, and K, art. حشر; &c.) 3 لَاطَفَ He caressed; treated with blandishment; soothed; coaxed; wheedled; cajoled: i. q. بَارَّهُ. (S, K.) b2: لَاطَفَهُ also signifies He spoke softly, gently, or blandly, to him. (TA.) He acted in a good manner with him: (KL:) manifested goodness towards him: (PS:) he acted towards him with goodness: and he did so, experiencing from him the same: (TK:) or rather, as syn. with بَارَّهُ, he behaved towards him with goodness and affection and gentleness, and regard for his circumstances; or did so, experiencing from him the same behaviour.4 أَلْطَفَهُ He gave him a gift or present. (TA.) b2: He showed him kindness, or goodness, and affection and gentleness, and regard for his circumstances, بِكَذَا [by such a thing, or such an action, &c.]. (S, K, TA.) Often occurring in the latter sense: but أَلْطَفَهَ بِكَذَا, expl. in the S and K by بَرَّهُ بِهِ, may mean He presented him with such a thing; like وَصَلَهُ بِهِ. b3: See أَخْلَطَهُ.5 تَلَطَّفَ لِلْأَمْرِ i. q. تَرَفَّقَ: (S:) see طَبَّ. b2: I. q.

تَكَلَّفَ اللُّطْفَ. (Bd xviii. 18.) b3: تَلَطَّفَ بِهِ i. q. تَرَفَّقَ. (Mgh in art. رفق.) لُطْفٌ Gentleness: graciousness; courtesy; civility: (S, &c.:) see رِفْقٌ: and delicacy of flavour, &c.

لَطَفٌ A gift, or present: pl. أَلْطَافٌ. (MA.) b2: See لَطَفةٌ.

لَطَفَةٌ A present; i. e. a thing sent to another in token of courtesy or honour; syn. هَدِيَّةٌ; (S, K;) as also ↓ لَطَفٌ, as stated by Z and others: pl. of the latter أَلْطَافٌ. (TA.) لَطِيفٌ Gentle, gracious, courteous, or benignant: and also subtle; knowing with respect to the subtilties, niceties, abstrusities, or obscurities, of things, affairs, or cases: in both of these senses often applied to a man. And Refined in manners, &c. b2: Obscure, recondite, or abstruse, language. (Kull.) b3: See Ham, p. 455. b4: Applied to a medicine, &c., Delicate: see سَوْسَنٌ.

لَطِيفَةٌ A nice, subtile, subtilely excogitated, quaint, facetious, or witty, saying, expression, or allusion; a witticism; a quaint conceit. b2: [A nicety of language;] any indication of subtile meaning, apparent to the understanding, but not to be expressed; as [matters of] the sciences of taste (عُلُوم الأَدْوَاق). (KT.) الإِلْطَافُ Self-pollution, by a woman: see جَلَدَ عُمَيْرَةَ in art. جلد.