سيل

سِيلَانٌ ذ The سِنْخ [or tongue ] of [meaning that enters into ] the hilt, or handle, of a sword (M, K) and of a knife (M) and the like; (M, K;) the part, (S, TA,) in the A the tail, (TA,) that enters into the hilt, or handle, of a sword and of a knife: heard by A'Obeyd, though not from a learned man: (S, TA:) but AA cites the following ex. from Ez-Zibrikán Ibn-Bedr: وَلَنْ أُصَالِحَكُمْ مَا دَامْ لِى فَرَسٌ وَا@شْتَدَّ قَبْضًا عَلَى السِّيلَانِ اـِبْهَامِى [ And I will not make peace with you while I have a horse and my thumb grasps firmly upon the tongue of the sword ]. (El-Jawáleekee, IB, TA.) (assumed tropical:) سَيَالٌ pl. of سَيَالَةٌ, (K,) [or rather the former is a coll. gen. n. of which the latter is the n. un., applied in the present day to A species of mimosa, or acacia, mentioned by Forskal in his Flora Aegypt. Arab., pp. lvi. and cxxiv., and by Delile in his Floræ Aegypt. Illustr. (in the Descr. de l'Égypte), no. 965: and to a species of thistle; carduus lacteus; or wild artichoke: ] a species of trees having thorns, of the kind called عِضَاه: (S:) certain trees having white thorns: (M:) or the [ thorny plant called ] شَبَه: (AA, M:) a certain plant; (K;) said to have white thorns, from which, when these are plucked, there issues what resembles milk: (AA, M, K: *) certain trees having lank branches and white thorns of which the bases resemble the middle pairs of the teeth of virgins: (TA:) or, (K,) accord. to Aboo-Ziyád, (AHn, M,) tall سَمُر [or gum-acacia-trees ]: (AHn, M, K:) accord. to the A, the trees called خِلَاف [now applied to the salix Aegyptia of Linn.] in the dial. of El-Yemen. (TA.)