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مِجْوَلٌ مجول A certain garment for women, (M, K,) doubled, and sewed together at one of its two sides, and having an opening made to it at the neck and bosom; in which a woman goes about: (M, TA:) or for a young girl; (K;) the دِرْع being for a woman: (TA:) a small garment in which a girl goes about: (S:) or a garment which a girl wears before she is made to keep herself behind, or within, the curtain, and in which she goes about: (Z, TA:) accord. to IAar, i. q. صُدْرَةٌ. (TA.) Imra-el-Keys says, “ إِِلَى مِثْلِهَايَرْنُو الحَلِيمُ صَبَابَةً
إِِذَا مَا ا@سْبَكَرَّتْ بَيْنَ دِرْعٍ وَمِجْوَلِ
” [At the like of her the staid would fixedly gaze with tenderness of desire, when she has become of erect and justly-proportioned stature, between such as wears a woman's shirt and such as wears a young girl's garment]. (S, * TA.) ― -b2- A woman's anklet. (Ibn-'Abbád, K.) ― -b3- An amulet, a phylactery, or charm of the kind termed عُوذَة. (IAar, K.) ― -b4- A crescent of silver in the middle of the necklace termed قِلَادَة. (IAar, K.) ― -b5- Silver [itself]. (Th, K.) ― -b6- A good, or sound, دِرْهَم [or silver coin]. (IAar, K.) ― -b7- A shield; (S, O, K;) sometimes used in this sense; (S, O;) as also ↓ جَالٌ . (Ibn-'Abbád, TA.) ― -b8- A large wooden bowl. (IAar, TA.) ― -b9- A white ثَوْب [or piece of cloth] that is put upon the hand of him to whom the players at the game called المَيْسِر commit the arrows [to be shuffled and distributed, in order that he may not be able to distinguish them by the feel,] when they have collected themselves. (ISd, K, * TA.) [For the same purpose, a piece of thin skin was also used: see رِبَابَةٌ.] -A2- A pool of water left by a torrent; because the water goes round about in it. (IF, TA.) -A3- A wild ass. (IAar, K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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