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ثُعْلٌ ثعل (K, and Ham p. 647) and ↓ ثَعَلٌ and ↓ ثُعْلُولٌ , (K,) the last from Ibn-'Abbád, (TA,) A tooth in excess, or exceeding the usual number, (K, and Ham ubi suprà,) behind the other teeth: (K:) or the entering of a tooth beneath another, with irregularity in the place of its growth: (K:) or ↓ ثَعَلٌ signifies superfluities in the teeth, and irregularity in their places of growth, so that they overlie one another: (S:) or the teeth's overlying one another, and the excess of a tooth among them [beyond the usual number]. (Har p. 243.) ― -b2- And ثُعْلٌ (S, K, and Ham ubi suprà) and ↓ ثَعْلٌ and ↓ ثَعَلٌ (K) An excess, or a redundance, (K and Ham,) [i. e.] a small teat in excess, [in addition to the usual number,] (S,) in, or among, the teats of a sheep or goat, (S, K, Ham,) and of a she-camel, (S, K,) and of a cow: (K:) it does not yield milk, though hyperbolically described as doing so. (S. [But see ثَعُولٌ.]) ― -b3- Also ثُعْلٌ, [not ثُعَالٌ as in Freytag's Lex.,] A certain animalcule that appears in a skin used for holding water or milk when its odour has become bad. (Ibn-'Abbad, K. *)

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