صَدِيعٌ

Either half of a garment, or piece of cloth, (O, K,) that is slit in halves: (O:) and a thing [شَىْءٌ according to the copies of the K, but I think that the right reading is شَىْءٍ i. e. “ of a thing, ”] that is cloven, or split, or slit, in halves: plural صُدُعٌ. (K.) See also صِدْعَةٌ, first sentence. It is also said to signify A [garment of the kind called] رِدَاء, that is slit in halves. (TA.) And A new patch in an old and worn-out garment. (O, K.) And A garment much rent. (TA.) And A black garment which a wailing woman wears with a white garment beneath it, and which she rends at her bosom so that the white one appears: so says Kásim Ibn-Thábit. (TA.) And A garment that is worn beneath the coat of mail. (O, K.) And A shirt [of a middling size] between two shirts, neither large nor small. (TA.)

See also صِدْعَةٌ, second and third sentences, in three places.

Accord. to Ibn-'Abbád, (O,) applied to a mountain-goat, it signifies Youthful: and (some say, O) of middling size; synonym مَرْبُوعُ الخَلْقِ; (O, K, TA;) i. e. between two [in size]; like صَدَعٌ [q. v.]. (TA.)

Also (assumed tropical:) Daybreak: (S, O, K:) because it cleaves the night. (O.)

And Fresh milk which is put in a place, and becomes cool, and overspread by a thin skin: (O, K:) so called because you skim off (تَصْدَعُ, lit. “ cleave, ”) that thin skin from the clear milk. (O.)