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خَصَّافٌ خصاف خصفة One who sews soles [so as to make them double, covering, or facing, one piece with another: see 1]: (Kr, K:) or one who patches soles; who mends them by sewing on other pieces. (Msb.) ― -b2- (tropical:) One who covers his pudendum with his hand: on the authority of Seer. (TA. [See 1.]) ― -b3- (tropical:) A liar: (Kr, K, TA:) as though he sewed one saying upon another, and [thus] embellished it. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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