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خَرِيطَةٌ خريطه خريطة A receptacle, (S, K,) [a pouch,] or thing like a كِيس [or purse], (Lth, Msb,) of leather, (Lth, S, Msb, K,) or of rag, (Lth,) or other material, (S, K,) which is bound, or made fast, or closed by the insertion of its loops one into another, (يُشْرَجُ, Lth, S, Msb, K,) upon its contents: (Lth, S, K:) pl. خَرَائِطُ. (Msb.) ― -b2- Also A thing likened thereto, which is made for the letters of the sultán, and of prefects, or agents, to be sent therein. (Lth, L.) ― -b3- Also A similar thing [which was formerly, in the time of paganism,] put upon the head of the she-camel [that was] confined [to perish] at the tomb of a dead person. (Lth.) ― -b4- [Also The pod, or oblong capsule or pericarp, of sesamum and the like: pl. as above. Used in this sense by writers on botany, and in the spoken language of the present day.] ― -b5- See also بِدَادٌ.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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