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سُكٌّ ذ A well narrow (Lth, AZ, As, S, O, K) in its cavity, or interior, (Lth, O,) or from its top to its bottom, (AZ, S, O,) or in its aperture; as also ↓ سَكٌّ , and ↓ سَكُوكٌ : (K:) or a well even in its cavity, or interior, and in its casing: or, accord. to Fr, one well, or strongly, or compactly, cased, and narrow; the pl. of سُكٌّ is سِكَاكٌ; and the pl. of ↓ سَكُوكٌ is سُكٌّ, so that the latter is both a sing. and a pl. (TA.) ― -b2- And A narrow road: (I'Abbád, O:) or a road stopped up: (K:) or a road narrow and stopped up. (Lh, TA.) ― -b3- See also سَكٌّ. ― -b4- Also The hole of the scorpion, (Ibn- 'Abbád, S, O, K,) in the dial. of the BenooAsad; (Ibn-'Abbád, O;) and of the spider, (O, K,) likewise, because of its narrowness. (TA.) -A2- Also A sort of perfume, (S, Mgh, O, Msb, K,) prepared from رَامَك [q. v.], (K,) or from musk and رَامَك, (O,) the former being bruised, or pounded, sifted, kneaded with water, and wrung hard, and wiped over with oil of the خِيرِىّ [q. v.] in order that it may not stick to the vessel, and left for a night; then musk is pounded, or powdered, (يُسْحَقُ,) and put into it by degrees, and it is [again] wrung hard, and cut into small, round, flat pieces, and left for two days, after which it is perforated with a large needle, and strung upon a hempen string, and left for a year; and as it becomes old, its odour becomes the more sweet. (K.) -A3- Also pl. of أَسَكُّ. (K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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