Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ط

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طِلْحٌ ذ The tick; syn. قُرَادٌ; (S, A, K;) sometimes applied thereto; (S;) as also ↓ طَلِيحٌ : (S, K:) or a large tick. (TA. [See حَمْنَانٌ.]) ― -b2- [Hence,] طِلْحُ مَالٍ (tropical:) One who keeps to camels, or cattle, and to the care of them, like as cleaves the طِلْح, i. e. tick: (A:) a manager, tender, or superintendent, of camels, or cattle; or a good pastor thereof. (K.) ― -b3- And طِلْحُ نِسَآءِ (tropical:) One who follows, or goes after, women (K, TA) much, or often. (TA.) ― -b4- And طِلْحٌ is also expl. as signifying A pastor fatigued, or wearied: (K, TA:) and [its pl.] طُلُحٌ, as signifying [simply] pastors. (L.) El-Hotei-ah says, after mentioning certain camels and their pastors, “ إِِذَا نَامَ طِلْحٌ أَشْعَثُ الرَّأْسِ خَلْفَهَا
هَدَاهُ لَهَا أَنْفَاسُهَا وَزَفِيرُهَا
” When a pastor, dusty and shaggy or matted in the hair of the head, sleeps behind them, [and they become lost to him,] their breathing and their vehement respiration occasioned by the fulness of their bellies guides him to them, so that he finds them, even if they be distant. (S, * L.) ― -b5- See also طَلِيحٌ, in four places.