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سَلِسٌ ذ part. n. of سَلِسَ; as also ↓ سَالِسٌ : (M:) Loose, not tight; meaning [slack; (see 1, first sentence;) and also] unsteady; applied to a nail, (A, TA,) and to any other thing. (TA.) A rájiz says, “ ↓ مَمْكُورَةٌ غَرْثَى الوِشَاحِ السَّالِسِ
تَضْحَكُ عَنْ ذِى أُشُر ٍ غُضَارِسِ
” [A female of slender make, whose loose وِشَاح (q. v.) required more than it had within it to fill it, laughing so as to discover cool and sweet serrated and sharp teeth]. (M, TA.) ― -b2- Easy; applied to a thing: (S:) easy, (Msb, K,) gentle; (S, Msb, K;) tractable; submissive; compliant; obsequious; (S, K;) applied [to a horse and the like, and, tropically,] to a man. (S.) You say, فَرَسٌ سَلِسُ القِيَادِ [A horse easy to be led; tractable]. (A.) And فُلَانٌ سَلِسُ القِيَادِ and القِيَادِ ↓ مِسْلَاسُ (tropical:) [Such a one is easy to be led, or persuaded; tractable, submissive, or compliant]. (A.) ― -b3- (tropical:) A man easy in private conference; expl. by سَهْلُ الخَلْوَةِ. (Msb.) ― -b4- Beverage, or wine, that descends gently or easily [down the throat]. (TA.) ― -b5- سَلِسُ البَوْلِ A man whose urine flows involuntarily; who is unable to retain his urine; (S, A, Msb, K;) by reason of disease. (Msb.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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