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مُخِيلٌ مخيل A thing dubious, confused, or vague. (TA.) ― -b2- Exhibiting a خَيَالِ [or fancied image, or rather a خَال or مَخِيلَة, i. e. an indication, &c., (see 4,) of anything, as, for instance,] of good [and of evil]. (TA.) You say شَىْءٌ مُخِيلٌ إِِلَىالخَيْرِ, and المَكْرُوهِ, A thing exhibiting an indication, or indications, of good, and of evil, or what is disliked or hated. (Msb.) Hence, (TA,) هُوَ مُخِيلٌ لِلْخَيْرِ, (S, TA,) said of a man, (S,) He is adapted or disposed by nature to good [i. e. to be, or to do, or to effect, or to produce, what is good]. (S, TA. [See also مَخِيلٌ in art. خول.]) And سَحَابَةٌ مُخِيلَةٌ (JK, Msb, K) and ↓ مُخَيِّلَةٌ (K, TA, in the CK مُخَيَّلَةٌ) and ↓ مُخَيِّلٌ and ↓ مُخْتَالَةٌ (K) and مخايلة [i. e. ↓ مُخَايِلَةٌ ] (Har p. 36) and ↓ مَخِيلَةٌ (Msb [but see what follows]) A cloud thought [or expected] to rain, (JK, Msb, K, TA, and Har ubi suprà,) when seen, (TA, and Har,) because showing signs of rain: مُخِيلَةٌ, with damm, being an act. part. n., as meaning causing to think; and ↓ مَخِيلَةٌ , with fet-h, being a pass. part. n., as meaning thought: and in like manner, accord. to Az, سَمَآءٌ مُخِيلَةٌ and ↓ مَخِيلَةٌ , meaning a clouded sky: (Msb:) or you say ↓ مَخِيلَةٌ , with fet-h, when [you use the subst.] meaning a cloud itself [showing signs of rain]; and its pl. is مَخَايِلُ: (T, TA: see خَالٌ, in the former half of the paragraph:) and سَحَابَةٌ مُخِيلَةٌ لِلْمَطَرِ a cloud giving hope of rain. (S.) See also خَالٌ, in two places, in the former half of the paragraph. You say also, السَّمَآءُ مُخِيلَةٌ لِلْمَطَرِ, meaning The sky is ready to rain. (Har p. 36.) ― -b3- اِمْرَأَةٌ مُخِيلَةٌ A woman having no husband. (JK.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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