رمث

رِمْثٌ ذ [ A certain shrub, resembling a dwarftamarisk; ] a certain pasture of camels; (S, A, Msb, K;) a species of tree [or shrub ], (T,) of the kind termed حَمْض, (T, S, A, Msb, K,) growing in plain, or soft, ground, (Msb,) the leaves of which fall, [or droop ], like the أُشْنَان [i. e. kali, or glasswort ]; eagerly desired by the camels when they are satiated with, and tired of, the [ sweet pasture termed ] خُلَّة: (T:) it is a species of tree [or shrub ] resembling that called غَضًا, (M, K,) which does not grow tall, but the leaves of which spread, [app. meaning that its sprigs spread out flat, and (as described above) droop, like those of the common tamarisk, ] and it resembles the أُشْنَان: (M:) like the غضا and اشنان, it is burned for making قِلْى [or potash ]: (TA &c. in art. قلى:) AHn says that it has long and slender هَدَب [generally, and app. here, meaning sprigs garnished with minute leaves overlying one another like the scales of a fish ], and is a pasture upon which camels and sheep or goats will live when they have nothing else with it; sometimes there comes forth upon it a white honey, [ a species of manna, ] resembling جُمَان [i. e. pearls, or silver beads like pearls ], very sweet; it affords firewood, and wood for other uses; its kindled firewood is hot; and its smoke is beneficial as a remedy for the rheum: AHn also says in one place, that, accord. to certain of the Basrees, the رمث occupies the space of a man sitting, and grows in the manner of the شِيح [ a species of wormwood ]: also that he had been told by certain of [the tribe of] Benoo-Asad that it rises not so high as the stature of a man, and is used as firewood: (M, TA:) [a coll. gen. n.:] the n. un. is with ة. (T, M.) [See a prov. cited voce ذُؤْنُونٌ, in art. ذأن.] ― -b2- Also A man whose clothes are old and worn out: (A, K:) said by MF to be tropical, but not said to be so in the A. (TA.) ― -b3- And Weak in the مَتْن [i. e. the back, or the flesh on either side of the back-bone ]. (K.)