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سُوسٌ ذ [The grub, or larva of the phalæna tinea and of the curculio; i. e. the moth-worm and the weevil;] the kind of worm that attacks wool (S, A, K) and cloths (TA) and wheat or other food: (S, TA:) and with ة, [a n. un.,] i. q. عُثَّةٌ; (Mgh, Msb;) as also ↓ سَاسٌ ; (TA;) i. e., a worm that attacks wool and cloths (Mgh, Msb) and wheat or other food: (Mgh:) and سُوسٌ, the kind of worm (M, Msb) called عُثٌّ, (M,) that eats grain (M, Msb) and wood: (Msb:) n. un. with ة: (M, Msb:) and any eater of a thing is termed سُوسُهُ, whether worm or other thing. (M.) One says, العِيَالُ سُوسُ المَالِ (assumed tropical:) [The persons who compose a household are the grubs of property]: i. e., they consume it by little and little like as سُوس consume grain, which can scarcely be cleared of them when they attack it. (Msb.) -A2- [The licoriceplant; so called in the present day;] a kind of tree, (AHn, M, K,) or plant, (Mgh,) well known, (Mgh, K,) with which houses are covered above the roofs, (AHn, M, Mgh,) the expressed juice of which is an ingredient in medicine, (AHn, M,) the leaves of which are put into [the beverage called] نَبِيذ, and make it strong like [the strong drink called] دَاذِىّ, (Mgh,) in the roots of which is sweetness (AHn, M, K) intense in degree, (AHn, M,) and in its branches is bitterness, (AHn, M, K,) and it abounds in the countries of the Arabs: (AHn, M:) or a kind of tree that grows in leaves without twigs: (M:) or a certain herb resembling [the species of trefoil called] قَتّ. (TA.) [The root is vulgarly called, in the present day, عِرْق سُوس: and so is a strong infusion prepared from it, which is a very pleasant drink: and its inspissated juice is called رُبّ السُّوس.] -A3- Nature; natural disposition: (S, M, A, K:) and origin. (S, A, K.) One says, الفَصَاحَةُ مِنْ سُوسِهِ (S, M) Chasteness of speech, or eloquence, is [a quality] of his nature. (S.) And الكَرَمُ مِنْ سُوسِهِ (Lh, M, A) Generosity is [a quality] of his nature. (A.) And فُلَانٌ مِنْ سُوسِ صِدْقٍ Such a one is of good origin. (S.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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