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قَشِيبٌ ذ Food mixed with poison: (M, TA:) and anything poisoned; as also ↓ مُقَشَّبٌ . (Nh, TA.) [Hence,] نَسْرٌ قَشِيبٌ A vulture for which poison is mixed in flesh-meat, which he eats, and which kills him; and then his feathers are taken: (S, O:) a vulture killed by means of غَلْثَى [q. v.]. (M, TA.) -A2- And White, (O, K,) and clean. (K.) ― -b2- And, (S, M, O, K,) as also ↓ قَشِبٌ , (M,) New: (S, M, O, K:) ― -b3- and Old, and worn-out: (M, O, K:) thus having two contr. meanings: (O, K:) the former used alike as masc. and fem.; applied to a garment; and its pl. is قُشُبٌ [and by contraction قُشْبٌ, mentioned by Golius on the authority of Meyd]. (M.) ― -b4- And the former, applied to a sword, (S, O, K,) Polished: (K:) or recently polished: (S, O:] ― -b5- and, (O, K,) so applied, (A, O, K,) Rusty: (O, K:) or dirty: (A:) thus, again, having two contr. meanings. (O, K)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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