علث

8 اـِعْتَلَثَ see 1, first sentence. You say, اعتلث العُلَاثَةَ He (a man) mixed the [ mess called ] عُلَاثَة [q. v.]. (As, O.) ― -b2- And اعتلث زَنْدًا He took a زَنْد [or piece of stick, or wood, for producing fire ] from trees, without knowing whether or not it would produce fire: (S, O, K:) or he acted unskilfully in selecting a زند: (A:) or he took, or made, for himself a زند from any tree that he found in his way: and so اغتلث, with غ. (AHn, TA.) And one says, فُلَانٌ يَعْتَلِثُ الزِّنَادَ meaning (assumed tropical:) Such a one does not select his مَنْكِح [or wife ]: (S, A, * O, K: *) in which sense also يغتلث is a dial. var.: (TA:) and in like manner one says اعتلث [alone], and ↓ أَعْلَثَ. (So in a copy of the A. [But I doubt the correctness of the latter verb; and the more so as it is not quite clear whether it be meant to be expl. as having this meaning, or as meaning It (a زَنْد) failed to produce fire, and therefore, perhaps, a mistranscription for عَلَثَ.]) ― -b3- And اعتلث السَّهْمَ He took [or made ] the arrow from any of the trees that were before him. (L.) And He made the arrow faultily, or unsoundly. (L, TA. [See also 5.]) -A2- See also 1, latter half.