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أَشِبٌ ذ Dense, tangled, confused, intertwined, or complicated; applied to a collection of trees: (S, TA:) or so dense, or so much tangled or confused, as to be impassable; applied to a thicket: (A:) and a place abounding with trees: (TA:) applied also to (tropical:) a collection of clouds, meaning commingled: (A:) and to (assumed tropical:) a number, meaning intricate, or confused. (S, TA.) It is said in a prov., عِيصُكَ مَنْكَ وَ إِِنْ كَانَ أَشِبًا (A,) meaning (tropical:) [Thy stock is an appertenance of thine] although it be thorny and intricate or confused. (TA. [See art. عيص])
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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