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أَخْصَفُ ذ (assumed tropical:) Of a colour like that of ashes, in which are blackness and whiteness; (JK, S;) as also ↓ خَصِيفٌ . (JK.) In this sense, (TA,) applied to a mountain, (S, K,) as also ↓ خَصِيفٌ , (TA,) and to a male ostrich, meaning (assumed tropical:) In which are blackness and whiteness: (S, K:) fem. خَصْفَآءُ. (TA.) (assumed tropical:) A rope, or cord, of two colours, having one strand black and another strand white. (JK.) (assumed tropical:) A horse, and a sheep, white in the flanks; (S, K:) the rest being of any colour: and sometimes in one side: (TA:) or whose بَلَق [or blackness and whiteness] extends from his belly to his sides: (S, TA:) or a horse white in the side. (Mgh.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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