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قَرِيحَةٌ ذ The first water that is drawn forth, or produced, of a well, (S, A, K, TA,) when it is dug; (TA;) and ↓ قُرْحٌ signifies the same. (K.) ― -b2- And The first of what pours forth, or descends, [for اصاب in my original I read صَابَ] of the contents of clouds. (A.) ― -b3- And (tropical:) The first of a thing; (A;) and so ↓ قُرْحٌ ; and the former, the first of anything. (K.) ― -b4- And (tropical:) A faculty whereby intellectual things are elicited, or excogitated. (MF.) One says, لِفُلَانٍ قَرِيحَةٌ جَيِّدَةٌ i. e. (tropical:) Such a one has a good, or an excellent, natural faculty for the elicitation of matters of science: (S, A:) from قَرِيحَةٌ in the first of the senses expl. above. (S.) ― -b5- And (tropical:) The natural, native, or innate, disposition, temper, or other quality, of a person: (K, TA:) and, as some expl. it, the mind, and intellect: (TA:) pl. قَرَائِحُ. (L.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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