خَصِيفٌ خصيف : see خَصْفٌ. ― -b2- (assumed tropical:) A thing in which are united any two colours. (S, TA.) See also 2. And see أَخْصَفُ in two places. [Hence,] (assumed tropical:) Ashes; (K;) because there are two colours therein, blackness and whiteness: but one says more commonly رَمَادٌ خَصِيفٌ, using the latter word as an epithet. (TA.) And كَتِيبَةٌ خَصِيفٌ, (S,) or كتيبة خَصِيفَةٌ, (K,) (assumed tropical:) [A body of troops] having two colours, (K,) having the colour of iron (S, K) and another colour: (K:) or so called because of the rust of the iron &c.: (L:) or the former phrase means, as some say, followed by horsemen; and therefore the epithet is without ة, because it has the signification of a pass. part. n.: for were it to denote the colour of the iron, they had said خَصِيفَةٌ, because it would in this latter case have the signification of an act. part. n. (S.) ― -b3- Also (assumed tropical:) Fresh milk upon which is poured رَائِب [i.e. curdled, or thick, or churned, milk]: (S, K:) if dates and clarified butter are put into it, it is [termed] عَوْبَثَانِىٌّ. (S.)
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