He, or it, clung, clave, or held fast, (O, K, TA,) بِهِto it [or him]. (TK. [See also 5 in article غلث.])
2.
-A2- Also He made, or did, [a thing] faultily, or unsoundly. (O, K.) [Accord. to the TK, one says, تعلّث السَّهْمَ, meaning He made the arrow faultily, or unsoundly: but this is perhaps a mistake: see 8.]
3.
And i. q.تَمَحَّلَ: (K:) Fr says, تَعَلَّثْتُ لَهُ الذُّنُوبَ is like تَمَحَّلْتُ [apparently meaning I laboured, and exercised art or management, in seeking to do to him misdeeds: see article محل]. (O.)