ثعل

أَثْعَلُ ذ A man whose teeth are irregular in their places of growth, and overlying one another: (Msb:) or having superfluities in his teeth, and irregularity in their places of growth, so that they overlie one another: (S:) or having a tooth in excess, (Mgh, K,) behind the other teeth: (K:) or having a tooth entering beneath another, being irregular in the place of growth: (K:) fem. ثَعْلَاآءُ, applied to a woman; (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) and also to a gum (لِثَةٌ): (K:) pl. ثُعْلٌ. (Msb, TA.) ― -b2- A portly, or corpulent, personage, or chief, characterized by superabundances of benificence, or bounty. (Lth, K.)