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خَشْخَاشٌ ذ A company: (ISd, TA:) or a numerous company of men: (Az, TA:) or a company (S, K) in, (K,) or having upon them, (S,) arms, or weapons, and coats of mail. (S, K.) -A2- See also خَشْخَشَةٌ. -A3- Also A certain plant, (S, Msb,) well known; (S, Msb, K;) [namely, the poppy;] which is of several species; (K;) i. e., four; (TA;) يُسْتَانِىٌّ [or garden-poppy,] (K,) which is the white, and this is the most fit for eating, and the best thereof is the fresh and heavy; (TA;) and مَنْثُورٌ, (K,) which is the wild Egyptian; (TA;) and مُقَرَّنٌ, [app. the horned poppy,] (K,) the produce of which has an elongated extremity like the horn of the bull; (TA;) and زُبْدِىٌّ, [app. the spattling poppy,] (K,) which is known by the name of بلبس [a word which I have not been able to find elsewhere]: (TA:) every one of these is soporiferous, and produces torpidness, and cools: (K:) used as a suppository, it produces sleep: and the integument [of the capsule] has a stronger power of producing sleep than the seeds: (TA:) [or rather the seeds have no narcotic power:] from half a drachm of the integument, with cold water, as a draught, taken early in the morning, and the like at sleep, has a wonderful effect in stopping a looseness characterized by a mixture of humours and by blood, when accompanied by heat and inflammation: (K:) it is wonderful also that its solid part confines, and its juice relaxes: and when the root, or lower part, is taken with water, [and boiled] so that the water is reduced to half its quantity, it is beneficial as a remedy for diseases of the liver arising from thick humour: so says the author of the Minháj: (TA:) the n. un. is with ة: (Msb:) and the pl. is خَشَاخِشُ [app. a mistake for خَشَاخِيشُ]. (TA.) [See also أَفْيُونٌ.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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