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كِمَادٌ ذ (a subst. K) The act of beating a garment, or a piece of cloth, by a fuller. (L, K. *) ― -b2- كِمَادٌ (K) and كِمَادَةٌ (A, L, K) A greasy, (A,) or dirty, (K,) or greasy and dirty, (L,) piece of rag, which is heated, and put upon a pained part, as a means of cure, (A, L, K,) for pain (A, K) of the belly, (K,) or flatulence. (A, K.) ― -b3- كِمَادٌ i. q. تَكْمِيدٌ; see 2; (S, L;) [The application of a كِمَادَة;] the taking a piece of rag, and heating it with fire, and putting it upon the place of a swelling. (Sh, L.) It is said in a trad., الكِمَادُ أَحَبُّ إِِلَىَّ مِنَ الكَىِّ [The application of a كِمَادَة is more pleasing to me than cauterization]. (S, L.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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