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شَمِيطٌ ذ Mixed; as also ↓ مَشْمُوطٌ : (K:) mixed together; (S, TA;) applied to any two things; (S;) or any two colours. (TA.) ― -b2- ذَنَبٌ شَمِيطٌ; in the K, ذِئْبٌ, which is a mistake; (TA;) A tail (TA) in which are blackness and whiteness. (K, TA.) And فَرَسٌ شَمِيطُ الذَّنَبِ A horse in whose tail are two colours. (TA.) And طَائِرٌ شَمِيطُ الذُّنَابَى A bird having a whiteness (Lth, K) and blackness (Lth) in the tail. (Lth, K.) ― -b3- نَبْتٌ شَمِيطٌ A plant of which part is dried up, or dried up and yellow, (Lth, S, K,) and part green. (Lth, K.) ― -b4- الشَّمِيطُ, [in a copy of the Mgh, ↓ شُمَيْطٌ , which is probably a mistranscription,] (tropical:) The dawn: (S, K:) because of the mixture of its whiteness with the remains of the darkness of night: (S, Mgh:) or because its colour is a mixture of darkness and whiteness. (TA.) ― -b5- لَبَنٌ شَمِيطٌ (tropical:) Milk which is such that one knows not whether it be sour or what has been collected in a skin, and had fresh milk poured upon it, by reason of its pleasantness. (K, TA.) ― -b6- وَلَدٌ شَمِيطٌ (tropical:) Children of whom half are males and half are females. (L, K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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