Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

تَلَحَّى, (Ṣ, Mgh,) and تلحّى بِعِمَامَتِهِ, (TA, art. عجر,) He wound a part of his turban under his lower jaw: (Ṣ, Mgh:) as also تَحَنَّكَ, q. v.

اِلْتَحَيْتُ اللَّحْمَ عَنِ العَظْمِ [I peeled off the flesh from the bone]. (O, Ḳ, in art. سلق.)

لَحْىٌ [not لَحًى] The jaw-bone; (Mgh, Mṣb;) either upper or lower: (Mṣb:) and, in a man, (Mṣb,) the part on which the beard grows. (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ.)

And sometimes Either lateral portion of the lower jaw: see ذَقَنٌ, and الفَنِيكُ.

لِحْيَةُ التَّيْسِ: see ثِيلٌ.

لِحْيَةٌ is sometimes, by a synecdoche, put for the whole person: see a verse cited voce خُنْثٌ.

مَسْحُ اللُّحَى: see عَقَّ بِالسَّهْمِ.

لِحَآءٌ Bark; and in particular the bark of a plant, or of a tree, of which ropes, &c. are made.

The لِحَآء of the date is [its Pulp, pulpy pericarp, or flesh; i. e.] the part that clothes the نَوَاة [or stone]. (TA.)

لِحَآءُ العِنَبِ [The skin of grapes]. (TA in art. شحم.)

لَوَاحِى الشَّيْبِ, for لَوَائِحُ الشيب, q. v.