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لحى

1 لُحِىَ ذ : see a verse cited voce خَطَبَ. ― -b2- لَحَاهُ ا@للّٰهُ: see شَرَاهُ. 5 تَلَحَّى ذ , (S, Mgh,) and تلحّى بِعِمَامَتِهِ, (TA, art. عجر,) He wound a part of his turban under his lower jaw: (S, Mgh:) as also تَحَنَّكَ, q. v. 8 اِلْتَحَيْتُ اللَّحْمَ عَنِ العَظْمِ ذ [I peeled off the flesh from the bone]. (O, K, in art. سلق.) لَحْىٌ ذ [not لَحًى] The jaw-bone; (Mgh, Msb;) either upper or lower: (Msb:) and, in a man, (Msb,) the part on which the beard grows. (S, Msb, K.) ― -b2- And sometimes Either lateral portion of the lower jaw: see ذَقَنٌ, and الفَنِيكُ. لِحْيَةُ التَّيْسِ ذ : see ثِيلٌ. ― -b2- لِحْيَةٌ is sometimes, by a synecdoche, put for the whole person: see a verse cited voce خُنْثٌ. مَسْحُ اللُِّحَى ذ : see عَقَّ بِالسَّهْمِ. لِحَآءٌ ذ Bark; and in particular the bark of a plant, or of a tree, of which ropes &c. are made. ― -b2- The لِحَآء of the date is [its Pulp, pulpy pericarp, or flesh; i. e.] the part that clothes the نَوَاة [or stone]. (TA.) ― -b3- لِحَآءُ العِنَبِ [The skin of grapes]. (TA in art. شحم.) لَوَاحِى الشَّيْبِ ذ , for لَوَائِحُ الشيب, q. v.