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مِلْحَاحٌ ذ A cloud continually, or incessantly, raining. (L.) ― -b2- A man [very] importunate, pressing, persevering, assiduous, or constant, in asking, begging, petitioning, or seeking. (L.) ― -b3- رَحًى مِلْحَاحٌ عَلَى مَا تَطْحَنُهُ (S) A mill-stone that presses hard upon that which it grinds. (A.) ― -b4- مِلْحَاحٌ (tropical:) A saddle of the kind called قَتَب that wounds the back; (K;) that wounds the camel's withers; (S;) that sticks close to the camel's back, and wounds it; and in like manner a saddle of the kind called رَحْل, and a horse's saddle. (L.) ― -b5- Whatever is slow, or tardy. (L.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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