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مِخْشَفٌ ذ : see خَشُوفٌ, in two places. ― -b2- Also A guide of the way (Lth, JK, K) who travels, or goes about, with people by night: (Lth, JK:) or who acts with a penetrative energy, and with sharpness, vigorousness, and effectiveness. (K.) A man (AA, S) bold, or daring, (AA, S, K,) to encounter the night, (S,) or to encounter the terror of the night, (AA,) or in night-journeying: (K:) or who goes about, or round about, by night; as also ↓ خَشُوفٌ : (K:) or this last, one who fears not by night: (JK:) or who goes away boldly in the night or in any case. (AA, IB.) ― -b3- المِخْشَفُ The lion; (K;) because of his boldness in going about: (TA:) and so ↓ الخَشَّافُ . (JK.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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