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2 صَوَّعَتْ مَوْضِعًا ذ , (O, K,) inf. n. تَصْوِيعٌ, (K,) She (a woman) prepared a place, such as is termed صَاعَة, (O, K, TA,) and made it even, (TA,) for the separating and loosening of cotton. (O, K.) ― -b2- صوّعت الرِّيحُ النَّبَاتَ The wind dried up, or caused to dry up, the plants, or herbage; (O, K;) as also صَوَّحَتْهُ. (TA.) ― -b3- صوّع الشَّىْءَ He made the thing pointed in its head. (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K.) ― -b4- And He rounded the thing in its sides. (O, K.) ― -b5- صّوع, (K,) inf. n. as above, (O,) said of an ass, [meaning a wild ass,] He drove his she asses to the right and left: (O, K:) so expl. by Ibn-'Abbád. (O.) And, said of a horse, He went at random, and resisted his owner [or rider]. (TA.) ― -b6- صوّع إِِلَيْهِ [said of a man, as is indicated in the O,] He turned about his head towards him: and he turned his face towards him. (O, TA.) ― -b7- And صوّع رَأْسَهُ, said of a bird, It moved, or moved about, its head. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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