شيح

شِيحٌ ذ Cautious, or fearing; (A, K;) as also ↓ شَائِحٌ, (A, TA,) and ↓ مُشِيحٌ: (As, O:) or this last, cautious, or fearing, and at the same time striving, labouring, toiling, or exerting himself: (Az, TA:) or all signify prudent; discreet; or having, or using, precaution, or good judgment; (Ham p. 281;) and so ↓ شَيْحَانُ. (Id. p. 43.) ― -b2- In the dial. of Hudheyl, (S, O,) Striving, labouring, toiling, or exerting himself, (S, A, O, K,) in affairs; (S, O, K;) and so ↓ شَائِحٌ, (A, K,) and ↓ مُشِيحٌ: (As, O, K:) pl. of the first [and app. of the second also] شِيَاحٌ: (S, O.) -A2- Also [The artemisia Judaïca; and absinthium Ponticum; species of wormwood; ] a certain plant, (AHn, S, A, O, K,) well known, (AHn, O, K,) of several species, (AHn, O,) of some [ species ] whereof brooms are made, (L,) [ and which is also used for fumigation, ] the leaves of which are [ of the kind called ] هَدَب; (AHn, O, L;) it has a sweet odour, but its taste is bitter; is pasture for horses and camels; and the places of its growth are the plains and the meadows: (AHn, O, L:) pl. شِيحَانٌ. (Fr, O, L.) -A3- Accord. to the K, [probably on the authority of Lth,] it signifies also A [ garment of the kind called ] بُرْد, of El-Yemen: but Az says that there is no kind of garment so called: the correct word is سَيْحٌ, with [the unpointed] س [and with fet-h]. (TA.)