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قِشْبٌ ذ Poison; (S, M, Mgh, O, K;) because consisting of things mixed together; (Mgh;) as also ↓ قَشَبٌ : (M, K:) pl. of the former أَقْشَابٌ. (S, M.) ― -b2- And [hence, app.,] A certain plant, (M, O, K,) resembling the مَقِر, (M, [which is generally said to mean the aloe, and by AHn to be a certain plant consisting of leaves without branches, agreeably with what follows, in the O and K resembling the مَفْد,]) from the middle whereof there rises a stalk, which, when it grows tall, bends down its top by reason of its succulence, or suppleness; having upon its head a fruit (ثَمَرَةٌ, M, O, [in the TA عقدة,]) with which birds of prey are killed, (M, O,) being poisoned therewith by its being put into flesh and thrown where they alight: he who prepares it stops up his nose; if he do not, it injures him; and people fear to pasture their cattle near to the places of its growth lest the animals should come in contact with it and should break it or bruise it and it should exhale its odour upon them and kill them: thus says AHn, on the authority of some one or more of the Arabs of the desert, of the Saráh (السَّرَاة). (O.) ― -b3- And Anything unclean, dirty, or filthy; as also ↓ قَشَبٌ : (M, TA:) or anything that is deemed unclean, dirty, or filthy. (Mgh.) ― -b4- Rust (K, TA) upon iron: (TA:) or dirt upon a sword. (A, TA.) ― -b5- The refuse, that is thrown away, as being of no good, of طَعَام [i. e. wheat, or other food]. (M, TA.) ― -b6- See also [the pl.] أَقْشَابٌ, voce قَاشِبٌ. ― -b7- Also, i. e. قِشْبٌ A man in whom is no good; (K, TA;) and (TA) so قِشْبٌ خِشْبٌ; (S, M, O, TA;) or this means with whom is no good: the latter word is an imitative sequent. (TA in art. خشب.) [See also قِشْبَةٌ.] ― -b8- And Dry, or tough, and hard. (M, TA. [Like قَسْبٌ.]) -A2- And القِشْبُ signifies The نَفْس [here meaning جَسَد, i. e. body, as is shown below, voce قَاشِبٌ]. (O, K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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