شذب

شَذَبٌ ذ Pieces, or cuttings, of trees; (As, A 'Obeyd, K;) n. un. with ة: (As, A 'Obeyd:) or bark of trees: (K:) pieces of bark, and pieces of wood, or sticks, or twigs or branches, in a dispersed, or scattered, state; (O, K;) pl. أَشْذَابٌ: (K:) what fall from, or of, the branches of a tree, [ when it is pruned, ] in a dispersed, or scattered, state: or, as some say, the thorns: and the bark: (Msb:) the stumps of the cut branches upon the trunk of a palm-tree, and other portions, which are lopped off; (O;) [i. e., also] the branches thereof which are lopped off: (TA:) and in like manner, (O,) as pl. of شَذَبَةٌ, (S,) [or rather as a coll. gen. n. of which the n. un. is with ة,] what are cut off from, or of, the branches of trees, (S, O,) others than palm-trees, (O,) i. e. of the straggling branches, (S,) such as are not in the choice, or best, part thereof: (S, O:) also the superfluous portions of the straggling extremities of the sprigs of sweet-smelling plants, which are pruned, or cut off. (Mgh.) ― -b2- Anything in a scattered, or dispersed, state. (Kt, TA.) ― -b3- (tropical:) Somewhat remaining of herbage [&c.]: (S, A, O, K: [in the first and third of which is added وَهُوَ المَأْكُولُ, app. referring to the herbage of which the remainder is thus called, meaning, “ it being what has been eaten: ”]) pl. as above, i. e. أَشْذَابٌ. (S, O, K. *) One says, فِى الأَرْضِ شَذَبٌ مِنْ كَلَأ (tropical:) In the land is somewhat remaining of herbage. (A, TA.) And one says also, بَقِىَ عِنْدَهُ شَذَبٌ مِنْ مَالٍ (tropical:) [ There remained in his possession a remnant of property ]. (A, TA.) And مَا بَقِىَ لَهُ اـِلَّا شَذَبٌ مِنَ العَسْكَرِ (tropical:) [ There remained not to him save a relic of the army ]. (A, TA.) ― -b4- Also (assumed tropical:) Household goods, or furniture and utensils, consisting of what are termed قُمَاش [q. v., perhaps here meaning the meaner sorts thereof, ] &c.: (A 'Obeyd, O, K:) pl. as above. (K, * TA.) -A2- And A dam; or thing constructed, or raised, to keep back the water of a torrent. (S, O, K.)