Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ك

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كَلِبٌ ذ A dog or man affected with the disease called كَلَبٌ: (S, TA:) ― -b2- A dog accustomed to eating human flesh, and in consequence seized with what resembles madness, or diabolical possession, so that when it wounds a man, he also becomes in like manner affected (Lth. S) by the disease called كُلَابٌ, barking like a dog, reading his clothes upon himself. wounding others, and at last dying of thirst, refusing to drink. (Lth.) ― -b3- A man thus affected is termed كَلِبٌ and ↓ كَلِيبٌ : pl. of the former كَلِبُونَ, and of the latter (or of the former accord. to the S) كَلْبَى. (TA.) When a man thus affected bites another, they come to a man of noble rank, and he drops for them some blood from his finger, which they give to drink to the patient, and he becomes cured. (Lh.) See also كَلَبٌ and كَلِبَ. ― -b4- كَلِبٌ A dog habituated to eating men. (TA.) ― -b5- (tropical:) An importunate beggar. (A.) ― -b6- دَهْرٌ كَلِبٌ (tropical:) Fortune that presses severely and injuriously upon its subjects. (TA.) ― -b7- كَلِبٌ A tree of which the leaves are rough, in consequence of its not having sufficient watering, without losing their moisture, so that they catch to the garments of those who pass by, thus annoying them like a dog. (ADk.)