عَقِيقٌ
2.
And [hence] Any channel which the water of a torrent has cloven (S, O, Msb, * K) of old (Msb) and made wide: (S, O:) and a valley: (O, K:) plural أَعِقَّةٌ (S, O, Msb, K, TA) and عَقَايءِقُ. (TA.) And عَقَايءِقُ signifies also Pools of water in cleft furrows: (AHn, TA:) and some say, red sands. (TA.)
3.
See also عَقِيقَةٌ, in two places.
4.
Also [Carnelian;] a species of
فُصُوص [or stones that are set in rings]; (S;) a sort of stone, (Msb,) or red
خَرَز [meaning precious stones], (O, K,) of which
فُصُوص
are made; (O, Msb;) existing in ElYemen, (K, TA,) near to Esh-Shihr, said by Et-Teefáshee to be brought from mines thereof at San'à, (TA,) and on the shores of the Sea of Roomeeyeh; one kind thereof is of a turbid appearance, like water running from salted flesh-meat, and having in it faint white lines, (K, TA,) and this, Et-Teefáshee says, is what is known by the appellation
الرطبى [so in my original]; the best kind is the red; then, the yellow; then, the white; and the other kinds are bad: or, as some
say, the streaked (المُشَطَّب) is the best: (TA:) [I omit some absurd assertions in the K and TA respecting various virtues supposed to be possessed by this stone:] the n. un. is with ة: and the plural is عَقَايءِقُ. (O, K.) [العَقِيقُ اليَمَانِىُّ is an appel-lation applied by some to The agate.]