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خَشِيبَةٌ ذ The natural quality [of the metal] of a sword, (Skr on the verse here following, S, TA,) before the making thereof is completed: (Skr:) or its blade, or iron: (A:) or its edge: or its polish. (JK.) Sakhr says, “ وَصَارِمٌ أُخْلِصَتْ خَشِيبَتُهُ
أَبْيَضُ مَهْوٌ فِى مَتْنِهِ زُبَدُ
” And a sharp sword of which the natural quality [of the metal] before the completion of the making thereof has been refined, [white, or a sword,] thin in the two edges or sides, having [in its broad side] diversified marks. (Skr.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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