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عِذْىٌ ذ (S, Msb, K) and ↓ عَذْىٌ (IAar, Msb, K) Such as is not watered but by the rain, of seed-produce, (S, Msb, K, TA,) and of herbage, (Msb,) and of palm-trees: (Msb, TA:) [app. used as epithets and as substs.: see also عَثَرِىٌّ: and see بَعْلٌ:] and ↓ عَذٍ and ↓ عَذِىٌّ , the latter of the measure فَعِيلٌ, are applied as epithets to the same in the same sense: the pl. of عذْىٌ is أَعْذَآءٌ. (Msb.) ― -b2- And عِذْىُ الكَلَأِ Herbage, or pasturage, that is remote from the رِيف [or land of sown fields and of seed produce &c.], and that grows from the rain. (TA.) ― -b3- And عِذْىٌ signifies also A place that gives growth to plants, or herbage, in winter and summer, without the welling forth of water. (Lth, TA.) ― -b4- And Any place not having in it [plants of the kind called] حَمْض (K, TA) nor land that exudes water and produces salt; (TA;) as also ↓ عَذْىٌ . (K.) ― -b5- And i. q. عَذَاةٌ: [perhaps in the sense last expl. above: (see the latter in art. عذو:)] pl. أَعْذَآءٌ. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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