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مُدَوٍّ مدو مدوي , applied to clouds (سَحَابٌ, S, K), Thundering: (K:) or vehemently, or loudly, thundering, and in a state of commotion. (S.) -A2- See also دَاوٍ in three places. ― -b2- [Hence,] أَرْضٌ مُدَوِّيَةٌ (assumed tropical:) Land overspread with various herbage; as though it were the دُوَايَة of milk: or having abundant herbage of which nothing has been eaten. (T.) ― -b3- And أَمْرٌ مُدَوٍّ (assumed tropical:) An affair that is [as though it were] covered: (K:) or an affair of which one knows not what is behind it; as though it were covered and concealed by a دُوَايَة. (M.) -A3- Also The maker, or manufacturer, of the دَوَاة. (TA: but there written مدوِى.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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