ذءب

ذِئْبَةٌ ذ fem. of ذِئْبٌ. (S, M, Msb, K.) ― -b2- Also (assumed tropical:) The [ angular ] intervening space between the دَفَّتَانِ [or two boards ] of the [ kinds of saddle called ] سَرْج and رَحْل (S, K, TA) and غَبِيط, (TA,) beneath the place of juncture of the two curved pieces of wood; (S;) [or] what is beneath the fore part of the place of juncture of the two curved pieces of wood (M, K) of the [ kinds of saddle called ] رَحْل and قَتَب and اـِكَاف and the like; (M;) which falls, or lies, upon, (S,) or bites, or compresses, (M, K,) the part called the مَنْسِج (S, M, K) of the beast. (M, K.) A poet says, وَقَتَبٌ ذِئْبَتُهُ كَا@لْمِنْجَلِ [ And a قتب of which the ذئبة is like the reapinghook ]. (M.) [See قَرَبُوسٌ.] Accord. to IAar, the ↓ ذِئْب [a coll. gen. n. of which ذِئْبَةٌ is the n. un.] of the [saddle called] رَحْل are The curved pieces of wood in the fore part thereof. (TA.) -A2- Also (assumed tropical:) A certain disease of horses (T, M, Mgh, K) or similar beasts, that attacks them in their fauces; (M, K;) for which the root of the beast's ear is perforated with an iron instrument, and there are extracted from it small, white, hard nodous substances, (T, Mgh, K, *) like the grains of the [ species of millet called ] جَاوَرْس, (K,) or smaller than those grains. (T, Mgh.)