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بَخَقٌ بخق [app. inf. n. of بَخِقَ: and, as a simple subst.,] The worst, or most unseemly, kind of عَوَر [or blindness of one eye, or loss thereof, &c.], and that in which there is most [of the foul matter termed] غَمَص: [in the CK, for أَكْثَرُهُ غَمَصًا, is erroneously put اَكْثَرُهُ غَمْضًا; and so I find in the JK:] or the state in which the edge of one's eyelid (شُفْرُ عَيْنِهِ [in the CK شُفْرُ عَيْنَيْهِ]) will not meet the black, or part surrounded by the white: (Lth, K:) or blindness of one eye (عَوَرٌ) by the disappearance, in the head, of the black, or part surrounded by the white: (S:) or the disappearance of that part of the eye, in the head, after blindness of the eye: (Sh, TA:) or the having the sight gone, but the eye remaining open, blind, or white and blind, but still whole. (IAar, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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