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شَوْصُ السِّوَاكِ ذ The washings (غُسَالَة) of the toothstick: or what remains from the tooth-stick when one cleans his teeth with it: each of these meanings is assigned to it in explanations of a trad.: اِسْتَغْنُوا عَنِ النَّاسِ وَلَوْ بِشَوْصِ السِّوَاكِ [Be ye independent of other men, if it be only by means of possessing the washings, &c., of the tooth-stick: i. e., as long ye possess anything]. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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