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غِرْيَلٌ ذ and غِرْيَنٌ signify the same; (AA, AZ, As, S, O, K;) [Silt, or alluvial deposit, left upon the ground by a torrent;] i. e. (S, O) earth, or mould, borne by a torrent, and remaining upon the ground, (AZ, S, O, K,) much cracked, (K,) whether moist or dry: (AZ, S, O, K;) or fine earth or mould, which is seen to have drive upon the ground, (As, S, O, TA,) and became (??) cracked, (As, TA,) when a torrent has came and remained some time upon the ground, and then sunk in and disappeared: (As, S, O, TA:) or, accord. to AA, (S, O, TA,) what remains of, or from, water, (S, O,) or of earth, or mud, (TA,) in a watering-trough: (S, O, TA:) and a pool of water left by a torrent. in which remain animal cules termed] دَعَامِيص [pl. of دُعْمُوصٌ, q. v.], and which one cannot drink. (AA, S, O, K, TA.) And The sediment remaining in the bottom of a flask, or bottle: (AA, S, O, K, TA:) and the sediment of a dye. (TA.) And (the former) Dust; syn. غُبَارٌ. (O, K.) And The mucus of the nose of a solid-hoofed animal of any hand. (O, K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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