Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ض

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ضَجْعٌ ذ [The species of glasswort, or kali, called] غَاسُول, for [washing] clothes: n. un. with ة: (K:) accord. to IDrd, the gum of a certain plant, or a certain plant [itself], with which clothes are washed: (O:) of the dial. of El-Yemen: (TA:) and, (O, K,) accord. to Ed-Deenawaree, (O,) i. e. AHn, (TA,) a certain plant, (K,) resembling small cucumbers, (O, K, TA,) [or] in shape like asparagus, (TA,) but thicker (O, K, TA) in a great degree, (O, TA,) four-sided in the stalks, (O, K, TA,) and having in it an acidity (O, TA,) and a bitterness (مَرَارَة O) or a taste between sweet and sour (مَزَازَة TA): it is crushed (يُشْدَخُ O) or cut into slices (يشرح TA) and its juice is expressed into milk such as is termed رَائِب [q. v.], which in consequence becomes pleasant, (O, K, TA,) and somewhat biting to the tongue; and its leaves are put into sour milk, like as is done with the leaves of the mustard: (O, TA:) it is good as an aphrodisiac. (O, K, TA.)