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سَحٌّ ذ Rain pouring abundantly and extensively: (K in art. سبط:) and ↓ سَحْسَاحٌ (S, K) and ↓ سَحْسَحٌ (K) rain pouring vehemently, (S, K, * TA,) paring the surface of the earth: (TA:) and ↓ سَحُوحٌ , applied to rain that falls in large drops, pouring much, or abundantly; and also applied to a thundering cloud, (حَنَّانَةٌ, i. e. سَحَابَةٌ فِيهَا رَعْدٌ, [or, accord. to the S and A, to any cloud, سَحَابَة,]) pouring forth much rain: (Ham p. 391: [in which it is said that in the latter case it may be proper; and in the former case, tropical:]) and ↓ عَيْنٌ سَحْسَاحَةٌ , so in a copy of the K, [and thus in my MS. copy of it,] in other copies ↓ سَحَّاحَةٌ , but the former is the right, (TA,) an eye pouring forth tears abundantly, or much: (K, TA:) and ↓ طَعْنَةٌ مُسَحْسِحَةٌ (S, TA) [a spear-wound, or the like,] flowing [with blood]. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] حَلِفٌ سَحٌّ (assumed tropical:) A swearing in which oaths pour forth consecutively. (L.) -A2- Also (assumed tropical:) i. q. قَسْبٌ [i. e. Dry, or tough, dates, that crumble in the mouth and have hard stones]; (K:) Az relates his having heard the Bahránees thus term a certain kind of قَسْب: (TA:) or (tropical:) scattered dates: (A:) or (tropical:) dry, or tough, dates, (K, TA,) not sprinkled with water [in order that they may stick together, for thus they do for this purpose, or they sprinkle the palm-leaf-receptacle of the dates for this purpose], (TA,) scattered (K, TA) upon the ground, not collected in a receptacle, and not packed; (TA;) as also ↓ سُحٌّ , (IDrd, K,) which is of the dial. of El-Yemen. (IDrd.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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