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صَبِيبٌ ذ [Poured out or forth: (see also صَبٌّ, first sentence:) or, as an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates,] water poured out or forth; syn. ↓ مَآءٌ مَصْبُوبٌ . (M, K.) ― -b2- And (M, K) some say (M) Blood: (S, M, K:) and sweat; (K;) as in the saying, “ هَوَاجِرُ تَحْتَلِبُ الصَّبِيبَا
” [Vehement midday-heats that draw forth the sweat]: (TA:) [or what is poured forth of sweat and of blood; for] one says, جَرَى صَبِيبُ العَرَقِ and الدَّمِ [What was poured forth, of the sweat and of the blood, ran, or flowed]. (A.) ― -b3- And (M, K) some say (M) The expressed juice of عَنْدَم [or dragon's blood]. (M, K.) ― -b4- And (M, K) some say (M) A certain red dye. (M, K.) ― -b5- And (K) The juice of the leaves of sesame: (S, M, * K: *) A 'Obeyd (so in a copy of the S, or Aboo-'Obeydeh accord. to the TA,) says, it is the juice of the leaves of sesame, or of some other plant, which was described to me in Egypt, the colour of which juice is red tinged with blackness: and some say, it is the expressed juice of the leaves of the حِنَّآء [q. v.]. (S, TA.) ― -b6- And عُصْفُر [i. e. Safflower]: (K:) or purified عُصْفُر. (S.) ― -b7- And A kind of tree [or plant] resembling سَذَاب [or rue], (M, K,) with which the hair is dyed. (M.) ― -b8- And Senna, (M, K,) with which beards are dyed, as with حِنَّآء. (M.) ― -b9- And A certain thing [or plant] resembling the وَسْمَة [or وَسِمَة, q. v.], (M, K, TA,) with which beards are dyed. (TA.) ― -b10- Also Hoar-frost. (AA, K.) AA cites, as descriptive of the sky, “ وَلَيْسَ بهَا الَّا صَبًا وَصَبِيبُهَا
” [And there is not in it aught save east wind and its hoar-frost]. (TA.) ― -b11- And Good, or excellent, honey. (K.) ― -b12- Also, (K,) or صَبِيبُ سَيْفٍ, (TA,) The extremity of a sword: (K, TA:) or the extremity next the سِيلَان [q. v.] thereof: or, as some say, its سيلان absolutely. (TA.) ― -b13- See also صَبَبٌ.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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