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عُوَّذٌ ذ Birds taking refuge in a mountain or in some other place; as also ↓ عِيَاذٌ : [each app. a pl. of عَائِذٌ; like as نُوَّمٌ and نِيَامٌ are pls. of نَائِمٌ:] (L, K:) Bakhdaj says, “ عُوَّذَا ↓ كَالطَّيْرِ يَنْجُونَ عِيَاذًا
” [Like birds saving themselves, taking refuge in a mountain or in some other place]; repeating the epithet for the sake of emphasis: or عياذا may be here an inf. n. (L.) ― -b2- And (tropical:) Herbage growing at the feet of thorn-trees, or in a rugged place, (S, O, K,) which the cattle can hardly reach, (S, O,) or which they cannot reach; (S, * O, * K;) as also ↓ مُعَوَّذٌ and ↓ مُعَوِّذٌ : (K:) or herbage that has not risen so high as the branches [around it], and which the trees prevent the beasts from depasturing: or such as is in rugged ground and cannot be reached by the cattle: or trees growing at the foot of some rising thing, such as a building or a sand-hill or a mountain, or a tree, or a rock, that protects them; as also ↓ مُعَوَّذٌ : or ↓ مُعَوِّذٌ , with kesr, signifies any herbage, or plant, at the foot of a tree or stone or other thing whereby it shelters, or protects, itself: (L:) and ↓ مُعَوَّذٌ , (O, K,) with fet-h to the و (O,) herbage upon which camels pasture around tents or houses: (O, K:) or عُوَّذُ شَجَرٍ and ↓ مُعَوَّذُهُ signify herbage that shelters, or protects, itself by trees, and spreads beneath them. (A.) [See also دُخَّلٌ.] ― -b3- عُوَّذُ اللَّحْمِ (tropical:) The parts of flesh-meat that cleave to the bone: (S, A, O, L, K: *) such are the sweetest of flesh-meat. (S, A, O, L.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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