دوى

دَوَاةٌ داهية دواه دواة دوى [vulgarly دَوَايَة, An ink-bottle; and, more commonly, an inkhorn; i. e. a portable case with receptacles for ink and the instruments of writing, so formed as to be stuck in the girdle; the most usual king is figured in my work on the Modern Egyptians, ch. ix.;] a certain thing, (S, M, Msb, K,) well known, (M, K,) from which one [ takes the ink and instruments with which he ] writes: (S, Msb:) pl. ↓ دَوًى, (S, M, K,) [or rather this is a coll. gen. n.,] and دُوِىٌّ, (T, S, M, K,) which is pl. of دَوًى, (S, TA,) as also دِوِىٌّ, (M, K,) and دَوَيَاتٌ, (S, Msb,) which is applied to a number from three to ten [inclusive]. (S.) -A2- Also The rind, or skin, of the colocynth, and of the grape, and of the melon; and so ذَوَاةٌ. (K.)