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خِثْىٌ خثى خثي Dung of a beast of the ox-kind; (JK, S, Mgh, Msb, K;) as also ↓ خَثًى : (Msb:) or of a bull: (IAar, TA:) and of the elephant: (K:) and metaphorically, of the camel; as used in a trad.: or, accord. to AZ, compact dung of a beast of the ox-kind, and of the sheep or goat, and of any cloven-hoofed animal, and of the camel: (TA:) pl. أَخْثَآءٌ [a pl. of pauc.] (JK, S, Mgh, Msb, K) and خَثِىٌّ, (CK, [a quasi-pl. n. like عَبِيدٌ,]) or خِثِىٌّ, (K accord. to the TA, [like حِنِىٌّ, q. v., a pl. of حِنْوٌ,]) and خُثِىٌّ [originally خُثُوىٌ], (K,) these two from Fr. (TA.) ― -b2- خِثْىٌ also signifies (assumed tropical:) A number of people in a state of dispersion: (Sgh, TA:) or so خِثْىٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ. (JK.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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