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مُرْتَثٌّ ذ (tropical:) One who is carried off from the field of battle (Th, S, M) wounded [so as to be rendered weak (see 8)], (S,) retaining remains of life; (Th, S, M;) if slain, he is not thus termed: (Th, M:) or one who is thrown prostrate, and wounded so as to be rendered weak, in battle, and is carried off alive, and then dies. (M.) See also رَثِيثٌ. ― -b2- Also (assumed tropical:) Falling down, and weak: from رَثٌّ applied to a garment that is old, and worn out. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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