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مَرْثُومٌ ذ (T, S, M, K) and ↓ رَثِيمٌ (M, K) A nose, (T, S, M, K,) or mouth, (M, K,) broken, and smeared with blood: (T:) or broken so as to be made to bleed: (S:) or broken so that the blood drops from it: (M, K:) and anything smeared with blood, or (so in the M, but in the K “ and ”) broken. (M, K.) ― -b2- And the former, as being likened to a nose in the state above described, (assumed tropical:) A woman's nose smeared with perfume. (T, S.) ― -b3- Also A camel's foot wounded by stones, so that it bleeds; like مَلْثُومٌ; (S, TA;) and in like manner ↓ رَثِيمٌ applied to a مَنْسِم [see 1, third sentence]: or, accord. to Ibn-Hishám El-Lakhmee, أَخْفَافٌ مَرْثُومَةٌ signifies camels' feet upon which the stones have had an effect, or made marks. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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