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رَاشِحٌ ذ Sweating; exuding sweat. (A, * Msb.) ― -b2- (assumed tropical:) A mountain moist in the lower part, (K, TA,) and at the base of which there sometimes collects a little water: when this is much [in comparison with what thus collects, though still little abstractedly], it is termed وَشَلٌ: (TA:) pl. رَوَاشحُ. (K.) ― -b3- (assumed tropical:) What one sees, like sweat, running in the interstices between stones. (K, * TA.) You say, كَمْ بَيْنَ الفُرَاتِ الطَّافِحِ وَالوَشَلِ الرَّاشِحِ (tropical:) [How great a difference is there between the overflowing Euphrates and a little water that distils scantily in interrupted drops from a rock or mountain, appearing, like sweat, running in the interstices between stones!]. (A, TA.) ― -b4- The pl. رَوَاشِحُ also signifies (assumed tropical:) The ثُعْل [which means a small teat in excess], (K,) or the أَطْبَآء [or teats], (TA,) of a ewe or she-goat, particularly. (K, TA.) ― -b5- And the sing., (tropical:) A young gazelle that walks, being trained, or accustomed, to do so by his mother, so that he is caused to sweat. (A.) And (assumed tropical:) A young weaned camel that has become strong enough to walk, or able to walk with strength: (S, K:) or that has become strong, (As, S, L,) and walks with his mother: (As, S:) pl. رُشَّحٌ. (L.) ― -b6- And (tropical:) What creeps upon the earth, of such as are termed its خِشَاش and its أَحْنَاش. (K, TA.) ― -b7- See also مُرْشِحٌ.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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