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مَدِيصٌ مديص [app. A place where a person, or thing, declines; or turns aside, or from the right course or direction: a meaning which seems to be indicated in the S and TA]. A rájiz says, “ إِِنَّ الجَوَادَ قَدْ رَأَى وَبِيصَهَا
فَأَيْنَمَا دَاصَتْ يَدِصْ مَدِيصَهَا
” [Verily the courser has seen its glistening; and wheresoever it turns aside, he turns aside at its place of turning aside]. (S, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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