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شِبَامٌ ذ A piece of wood which is put crosswise in the mouth of a kid, (S, K, TA,) or, as in the M, in the two sides of the mouth of a kid or lamb, and tied behind its head, (TA,) in order that it may not suck its mother; (S, K;) as also ↓ شِبمَ : (K:) and so حِشَاكٌ. (IDrd and S in art. حشك.) ― -b2- Also, (K,) or the dual, شِبَامَانِ, (S, TA,) Two threads, or strings, attached to the [kind of face-veil called] بُرْقُع, by which the woman [draws and] binds [the two upper corners of] it to the back of her head: (S, K:) [also called ثِبَاتٌ:] pl. شُبُمٌ. (O in art. سنبك.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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