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سَلِيقَةٌ ذ What is cooked with hot water (مَا سُلِقَ), of herbs, or leguminous plants, and the like: (K:) or, accord. to Az, what is cooked (مَا طُبِخَ) with water, of the herbs, or leguminous plants, of the [season called] رَبِيع, and eaten in times of famine: pl. سَلَائِقُ, which occurs in a trad., and, as some relate it, with ص. (TA.) ― -b2- And Millet (ذُرَةٌ) bruised, (IAar, IDrd, Z, K,) and dressed, (IAar, IDrd, K,) by being cooked with milk: (IAar:) or أَقِط [a preparation of dried curd] with which are mixed [plants called] طَرَاثيث. (K.) -A2- Accord. to Lth, (TA,) The place where the [plaited thong called] نِسْع comes forth [from the ropes that form the breast-girth], (O, K, TA,) in the side of the camel: said by him to be derived from the phrase سَلَقْتُ شَيْئًا بِالمَآءِ الحَارِّ; because it is [as though it were] burnt by the ropes: or, accord. to another explanation, its pl., سَلَائِقُ, signifies the strips of flesh between the two sides. (TA.) ― -b2- See also سَلْقٌ, in two places. -A3- And see سَلِيقٌ. -A4- And The nature, or natural disposition or constitution, (AZ, IAar, S, K,) of a man. (IAar, S.) See 1, in the last quarter of the paragraph. One says, إِِنَّهُ لَكَرِيمُ السَّلِيقَةِ Verily he is generous in respect of nature. (AZ.) [See also سَلِيقِيَّةٌ.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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