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غَطَفٌ ذ Ampleness of the means, or circumstances, of life: (S, O, K:) like غَضَفٌ. (O.) -A2- And Length, and a folding, (O, K,) in the edges of the eyelids, (O,) or of the edges of the eyelids: (K:) or length, and then a bending [app. upwards] of the eyelashes: occurring in a trad., and, as some relate it, with ع; but Er-Riyáshee knew not this, and thought it to be غَطَف: (TA:) or abundance of the hair of the eyebrow: (K:) said by ISh to be syn. with وَطَفٌ: (TA:) but by IDrd said to be the contr. of وَطَف, and signifying paucity of the hair of the eyebrows: (O, TA:) and it is said to be sometimes used as meaning paucity of the eyelashes. (TA.) [See also غَضَفٌ.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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