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دَحِلٌ دحل Wicked, deceitful, guileful, artful, crafty, or cunning; (AA, S;) as also دَحِنٌ: (AA, S in art. دحن:) or very crafty and deceitful or guileful: (AZ, S, * K:) or cunning, ingenious, or clever, and skilful; as also دَحِنٌ. (TA.) See also دَحُولٌ, last sentence. ― -b2- One who diminishes the price, or demands a diminution of the price, or vies in niggardliness, or in acuteness, in a case of selling or buying, [app. the latter,] in order that he may attain, or so that he attains, the object of his want. (T, K, TA.) ― -b3- Having much wealth. (O, K.) ― -b4- Flabby and large and wide in the belly. (K, * TA.) Fat, short, and flabby and prominent, or large and flabby, in the belly. (S, K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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