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حَصْبَةٌ حصب حصبه حصبة [A single throwing of pebbles]. ― -b2- [Hence, app., because immediately following the day of the last throwing of pebbles in the Valley of Minè,] لَيْلَةُ الحَصْبَةِ The night [next] after the days called أَيَّامُ التَّشْرِيقِ [which are the 11th and 12th and 13th of Dhu-l-Hijjeh]. (K.) ― -b3- See also حَصَبٌ. -A2- Also, (S, A, Msb, K,) and ↓ حَصِبَةٌ , (S, Msb, K,) and (sometimes, S) ↓ حَصَبَةٌ , (S, K,) [Measles, or spotted fever;] a certain cutaneous eruption: (S, A, Msb, K:) by some, [contr. to general authority,] said to be small-pox. (Msb.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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