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مَشِيعٌ ذ Filled; (O, K;) applied to a vessel. (K.) ― -b2- [Hence,] (assumed tropical:) Very rancorous, malevolent, malicious, or spiteful; filled with baseness, meanness, or sordidness. (K, TA. [In the CK, erroneously said to be, in this sense, مِشْيَع, like مَكْيَل; instead of مَشِيع, like مَكِيل.]) Hence also, هُوَ ضَبٌّ مَشِيعٌ (assumed tropical:) He is [like a lizard of the kind called ضبّ that is] very rancorous, &c. (TA.) IAar says, I heard Abu-l-Mekárim revile a man, saying, هُوَ خَبٌّ مَشِيعٌ, [perhaps correctly ضَبٌّ, but see this word, which is used as a syn. sequent to خَبٌّ,] meaning He is like a ضَبّ that is very rancorous, &c., and unprofitable; (O, TA;) مَشِيعٌ, here, being with fet-h to the م; (O;) from شِعْتُهُ “ I filled it. ” (O, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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