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مُشَيَّعٌ ذ (tropical:) Courageous: (S, O, K, TA:) as though he were encouraged and emboldened and strengthened by another, or encouraged and emboldened by the strength of his heart: (O, K:) or whose heart is encouraged and emboldened by every formidable affair in which he has embarked. (A, TA.) ― -b2- And (tropical:) Very quick or speedy or hasty. (Ibn-'Abbád, Z, O, K.) ― -b3- المُشَيَّعَةُ, in a trad. relating to sheep or goats to be slaughtered as victims on the day of sacrifice, in which trad. such are forbidden, (O, Msb, K,) means the sheep or goat (Mgh) that requires one to urge it on after the [other] sheep or goats, (Mgh, O, Msb, K,) because of its weakness (Mgh, K) and leanness, (Mgh,) or because of its lack of strength to follow them: (O:) or, as some relate it, the word is ↓ المُشَيِّعَةُ , (Mgh, O, Msb, K,) meaning that ceases not to follow the [other] sheep or goats, (الغَنَمَ ↓ لَا تَزَالُ تُشَيِّعُ , O, K, * i. e. تَتْبَعُهَا, Mgh, O, K,) or that ceases not to lag behind the [other] sheep or goats, (Msb,) not coming up with them, (Mgh, TA,) but always going behind them, (TA,) because of its leanness; (Mgh, Msb, K;) from شَيَّعَ الضَّيْفَ [expl. above (see 2)]; (Mgh;) or as though urging on the [other] sheep or goats. (Msb.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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