مسح

أَمْسَحُ ذ A flat place, with small pebbles, and without plants, or herbage. (S.) ― -b2- مَسْحَاآءُ A plain tract of land, with small pebbles, (S, K,) and without plants, or herbage: (S:) [ex.] مَرَرْتُ بِخَرِيقٍ مِنَ الأَرْضِ بِيْنَ مَسْحَاوَيْنِ [ I passed by a depressed tract of land containing herbage between two plain tracts containing small pebbles and without herbage ]: (Fr, S:) or a piece of flat ground, bare, abounding with pebbles, containing no trees nor herbage, rugged, somewhat hard, like a flat place in which camels &c. are confined, or in which dates are dried, not what is termed قُفّ, nor what is termed سَهْلَة: (ISh:) pl. مَسَاحٍ and مَسَاحى [i. e. مَسَاحَى or مَسَاحِىُّ]; pl. forms proper to substs.; as it is an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates. (L.) ― -b3- Also مَسْحاآءُ Red land. (K.) ― -b4- مَسْحَاآءُ A woman having little flesh in her posteriors and thighs; or foul, ugly, or unseemly; syn. رَسْحَاآءُ. (S.) [In the K., الأَرْضُ الرَّسْحَاآءُ, given as an explanation of المَسْحَاآءُ, is an evident mistake for المَرْأَةُ الرَّسْحَاآءُ, as observed by Freytag.] ― -b5- أَمْسَحُ, or أَمْسَحُ القَدَمِ, A man having a flat sole to his foot, without any hollow: (L:) fem. مَسْحَاآءُ: (L, K:) and ↓ مَسِيحٌ, or القَدَمَيْنِ ↓ مَسِيحُ, signifies the same: and also having smooth and soft feet, without fissures or chaps, so that they repel water when it falls upon them. (L.) ― -b6- Also مَسْحَاآءُ, (K,) or مسحاآءُ الثَّدْىِ, (L,) A woman whose breast has no bulk. (L, K.) ― -b7- Also مَسْحَاآءُ A one-eyed woman: [see also مَسِيحٌ:] and such as is termed بِخْقَاآءُ, whose eye is not مُلَوَّزَة: so in [most of] the copies of the K., but in some, بِلَّوْرَة: (TA:) [the meaning seems to be whose eye has no crystalline humour ]. ― -b8- أَمْسَحُ A man having little flesh in his posteriors and thighs; or having small buttocks sticking together; syn. ارسح: fem. مَسْحَاآءُ: pl. مُسْحٌ. (L.) ― -b9- أَمْسَحَ A man (S) having the inner sides of his thighs rubbing together (S, L, K) so as to become sore and chapped: (L:) or having the inner side of his knee inflamed by the roughness of his garment: (L, K:) fem. مَسْحَاآءُ, and pl. مُسْحٌ. (L.) ― -b10- غَارَةٌ مَسْحَاآءُ (tropical:) A hostile attack, or incursion, by a troop of horse, in which the attacking party passes lightly by the party attacked, or brushes by them, without remaining by them. (L, from a trad.) ― -b11- See مَسِيحٌ.