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كَاشِحٌ ذ One who determines, or resolves, upon enmity (يُضْمِرُهُ) to another: (S, L, K:) a hating enemy: (L:) a secret enemy: as though he folded up enmity in his كَشْح; or as though he turned his كَشْح towards thee, and his face from thee; (ISd, L;) or because he conceals enmity in his كَشْح, in which is his liver, which is the seat of enmity and hatred; wherefore an enemy is called أَسْوَدُ الكَبِدِ, as though enmity had burned his liver: (L:) or, accord. to some, one who estranges himself from another. (Msb.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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