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غِيلٌ ذ A thicket; or trees in a tangled, confused, or dense, state: (As, S, O:) or an abundance of such trees, (K, TA,) not thorn-trees, amid which one may conceal himself: (TA:) and ↓ غَيْلٌ signifies the same: (K:) and the former, a collection of reeds or canes, and of [the kind of high, coarse, grass called] حَلْفَآء: (K:) and i. q. أَجَمَةٌ [i. e. a collection, or an abundant collection, of tangled, confused, or dense, trees, or of reeds or canes]: (S, O, K) [and in like manner ↓ غَيْلَةٌ , occurring in the Deewán of the Hudhalees, is expl. by Freytag, as signifying “ saltus: ”] and the place [meaning covert] of the lion: it may not have the termination ة: the pl. is غُيُولٌ; (S, O;) and غَيَايِيلُ is said to be an anomalous pl. of غِيلٌ. (O and TA in art. عيل, voce عَيَّالٌ, q. v.) ― -b2- See also غَيْلٌ, in two places.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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