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خَبَثٌ خبث The dross of iron, (S, TA,) and of silver, when they are molten. (TA.) [Hence the saying,] لَيْسَ الإِِبْرِيزُ كَالخَبَثِ [lit. Pure gold is not like dross]; meaning (tropical:) the good is not like the bad. (A, TA.) ― -b2- Adulterating alloy in gold and iron &c. (Har p. 135.) ― -b3- A thing wherein is no good. (TA.) ― -b4- (tropical:) Excrement, or ordure: impurity, or filth. (Mgh in art. قل, and TA.) Hence the saying in a trad., إِِذَا بَلَغَ المَآءُ قُلَّتَيْنِ لَمْ يَحْمِلْ خَبَثًا [explained in art. احل]. (Mgh ubi suprà, and TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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